RSS-Spider

I’ve been reading a book I got for Christmas by Thomas A Limoncelli called Time Management for System Administrators. I’ve found it totally engrossing. So far in the 3 chapters that I’ve read I’ve been able to clear out the clutter in my office at my “real job”, start to focus on priorities a little better, and I’m even tempted to start using my Palm Pilot again. Now if I could only get everyone else in my office to read this book. Our research directory is constantlly frazzled… our production people are always on edge, and our sales reps are always in foul moods.

Tomorrows task is to clean out all the crap on my desk that has been sitting there since 2004. I’ve got a few files which I haven’t looked at in years which can go in the trash. The book also says that there should be zero distractions on your computer. A clean desktop is a focused mind. Task #2 will be to reduce the number of desktop icons from 8 columns to as few as possible. Again I’m sure some of them have been there for months without me using them.

With the free time I plan on working more on “my.rss-spider.com” Who wants to be a beta tester?

Merry Christmas… We’ll be away for a few days in Buffalo New York. See you at Ted’s Red Hots!

And it’s working so nicely that I thought it should replace our home page. So now we have the top ten searchs for the last 24 hours instead of the top ten searches ever…

you may also have noticed the background color has changed. The dull grey wasn’t really doing it for me anymore. I’m php programmer first, database developer second, sales support monkey third… blah blah blah, and a graphic designer ninenty second. I liked the blue on the blog so I spread it around the site tonight.