The big, juicy ones tend to hide from you.
Advice on Picking Blackberries
Advice from my Dad last night, to Max and me as we started to pick blackberries (applicable to life in general):
Almost Free
I just stopped using Microsoft Outlook in favor of an all-Google solution to email, calendar, contacts and tasks (since now Google calendar and contacts sync with my mobile phone). Outlook is such a bulky program, I'm thrilled to drop it.
This leaves only two non-free software components in my computer network: Windows Vista and Quicken. I've got my eye on Mint.com as a replacement for Quicken, but I'm not quite ready to make the jump to keeping all my financial data in the Cloud. Plus, Mint seems a little to 'automatic' for me. Here's the basic software run-down:
This leaves only two non-free software components in my computer network: Windows Vista and Quicken. I've got my eye on Mint.com as a replacement for Quicken, but I'm not quite ready to make the jump to keeping all my financial data in the Cloud. Plus, Mint seems a little to 'automatic' for me. Here's the basic software run-down:
- Browser: Chrome
- Email/PIM: Gmail
- Office: OpenOffice
- Security: AVG Free, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, CCleaner
- Imaging: GIMP and Paint.NET
- Media: iTunes, WMP, VLC Media Player
I Love the Future
I am thankful to be living in a time when we have the privilege to debate over health care. I love the future; so much better than the past.
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