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Archive for May, 2004

How I Learned to Speak Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur

Monday, May 17th, 2004

A few months ago I decided to learn to speak Chinese. My wife is from mainland China, and we would like to live there someday. After looking a lot of possible programs, we chose Pimsleur’s Mandarin Chinese. I use the cassette course , but there’s also a CD version.
Here’s why a like Pimsleur so much:

The […]

E-Mail Overload

Friday, May 14th, 2004

Re: Jeremy’s E-Mail Stress Disorder or Burnout? :
Like most people I know, Jeremy’s feeling a little overwhlemed by all the email he gets. While I certainly get this feeling from time to time, it happens a lot less frequently since I adopted the Getting Things Done method. The main rule I try to follow is, […]

Google is Evil

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

I’m with Dave on this. Google’s lack of support for RSS is just plain Evil.
And if enough people link to Google with the phrase “Google is Evil,” maybe they’ll hear us.
Even better, link to them like this:
evil
(That’s “evil” as a link to Google inside <h1> tags.)

Talk to your Future Self

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

This is pretty cool. Mail to the Future is a tool that allows you to schedule an email from yourself to yourself to be sent to you up to 30 years from now.