When your sitting at your desk and your thinking, ‘man, I just wanna go home.’ or your thinking you wished you could just work from home; wouldn’t that be awesome. You need to think about what your saying and try to understand the requirements to work remotely.

You need to understand there’s trade off’s and that working remotely can be a double edged sword.

It’s not all ‘this is easy this is fantastic and to Hell with all those other guys.’- nah- there’s more to it than that.

The concept of working remotely is nice as a passing thought, especially when those days can be just absolutely beautiful; the skies are blue, fresh cut grass, birds chirping and the billowing clouds the glide through. I know, I’ve been there.

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I read this article today about how Mozilla Thunderbird is coming together and they’re working on the ‘Universal Inbox’; this is SO MUCH what everyone needs.

And I agree with a lot of what it has to say.

I was discussing this with a friend of mine the other day about this very same problem and he posted a link to RainDrop and it’s a very good point.

People are communicating in all kinds of portals, Instant Message, email, forums, Twitter, Facebook…. the list goes on.

There has to be a way to make sense of it all- maybe Raindrop and be that answer.

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Here’s some stuff I’ve been looking at…

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	Oh Lord, give me the strength not to kill the AT&T guy if he doesn’t show up to fix my problem with my DSL svc- he knows not what cometh. [lehenryjr]
	You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. [lehenryjr]
	AT&T sucks! They told me they scheduled the tech guy to come out between 8-12; he doesn’t show + they have no record of him being scheduled. [lehenryjr]
	ATT sucks! I’d love 2 have ATT explain 2me what svc they do right– I’d gladly pay for that service. Obviously computers can’t cure stupid. [lehenryjr]
	Liked AT&T in Little Elm, TX, YOU SUCK. Is this what customer service has come down to?!
	AT&T Sucks! I can’t tell’ya how much I hate bad customer service. Their incompetence results in a huge installation fee for me. Anyone? RAPE [lehenryjr]
	Reading: Audi President: Chevy Volt Is a “Car for Idiots… the Intellectual Elite Who Want to Show What Enlightened Souls They Are.” — Re … [lehenryjr]
	Reading: Big cable to FCC: don’t define broadband by its actual speed – Ars Technica http://tinyurl.com/ncvdcw [lehenryjr]
	Reading: Philips launches Wireless HDTV Link, gives airborne HDMI a fightin’ chance http://tinyurl.com/nyzt4g [lehenryjr]
	Reading: Google Explains Yesterday’s Gmail Outage – Gmail – Lifehacker http://tinyurl.com/mbwkpd [lehenryjr]
	Hey AT&T-YOU SUCK! – It’s 4pm. U were supposed to be here between 8am-12pm. Glad I didn’t need a heart transplant… Still waiting!! [lehenryjr]
	AT&T is now telling me that they can’t find anyone to come by. I wait’d 4 days ’cause I made an appt and now they’ve eff’d that up. Morons. [lehenryjr]
	I hate serious conversations, they remind me I’ve to be serious when I don’t want to- but when that happens… I’ll laugh on the inside. [lehenryjr]
	Hey AT&T it sure would be nice if I had an internet connection about now? Remember me?! You never showed or notified me… good job idiots. [lehenryjr]
	AT&T you suck!! I’ve got until 8pm to start this rodeo all over again- you’re not bothering to contact me? How is this customer service?? [lehenryjr]
	ATT Sucks! I got a superfluous call from ATT executive office and they said they can’t really do anything… [lehenryjr]
	ATT Sucks. I am looking at ISP alternatives right now. I am so angry. 5 days and ATT can’t get anything right. Not one. Pathetic company. [lehenryjr]
	I have given ATT more than enough time to set things right and they have failed at every opportunity. They just can’t escape incompetence. [lehenryjr]
	ATT – YOU SUCK- Guess the news… you loose. I am done with your BS. I am canceling tomorrow. You just just $1500+ and an existing customer. [lehenryjr]
	Whee! It’s melee FRIDAY! Do you know Bunny Rabbits don’t ‘bunny’ and Jack Rabbits, don’t know Jack? Cause Jack’s pissed… I asked him. [lehenryjr]

Thanks for reading!
Enjoy.

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There’s been few times in my life where I’ll see a demonstration of technology and immediately understand and recognize [no doubt]  that this is the future.

Google placed a video online where the developers and product marketers show what electronic communications should be; it was a revolution. It’s Google Wave.

It’s funny, I just wrote a article about ‘email being dead’.

It’s a true rarity that you get to see where someone is literally going to change the world. When you do, you just get a good feeling…

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In August of 2008, Nuance was hit with a tornado of bad PR for releasing a version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking that wasn’t 64-bit compliant. Nuance was already under fire for not addressing customers complaints in v9.

Later in 2008, Nuance said they would be offering a free upgrade to all Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 registered customers so that it would be compatible with 64-bit Vista.

They NEVER said it’s only for the customers who paid for standard, preferred, professional, medical and legal. They never tried to disclose this little secret.

The interesting point to this release is that Nuance was not going to release an update for the Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 customers who purchased the ‘essentials’ suite; this was another PR hit for Nuance.

If you don’t find this interesting yet, keep reading.

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