Author: Andy Wibbels

I’m not going to get into politics on my biz blog but it really really really pisses me off when organizations and companies and politicians release major new-making documents online… and only in PDF format. That really drives me absolutely batshit crazy. Take the whole extra 5 minutes in Word to do File > Save […]

I sat down with Tim Ferris, author of the new book The 4-Hour Workweek, to hear exactly what the heck that might mean for life, business and money… here’s the audio:   More Ferris-ness at Darren’s blog…

One of my favorite features in Thunderbird 2.0 is favorite folders. Instead of being confronted with a daunting list of folders, I can look at just a select few (for me, my 2 primary inboxes). Right-click on a folder, add it as a Favorite, then use the little switchees to move from All Folders to […]

Back when I was a big smarty-pants, I thought I’d have simple, elegant permalink urls in the form of: http://myblogdomain.com/post/1234 Where 1234 was the post number. This was my strategy for when I thought I have a plain-text only ezine and I didn’t want long URLS getting truncated by Evil MS Outlook. But then I […]

ROCK OUT WITH YOUR COOKIES OUT Sharon sent me cookies for my impending 32-ness.

Google History has search records for me from Feb onward.  My monthly search shows that I search for over 800 things a month – and I’ve already cleared 700 this month and we still have 10 days left! An slice of my activity over a normal day shows that I search most at 6pm and […]

I just blew my own mind.

That is all.

Let us rejoice and be glad: Mozilla today released the final version of Thunderbird 2, the next generation of the organization’s open-source email client. Key new features include message tagging, message history, and a new function to search for content within messages, among numerous other enhancements.

Remember the posts about how whenever women take strong positions on their blogs they are harrassed and called out with sexually demeaning language? Guess what: The Internet’s element of anonymity has allowed both relief from racism (people of color who shop and do business online don’t experience the racism they do offline) and, at the […]