http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent Ninety degrees of randomness Tue, 13 May 2008 06:53:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's done: I've moved all of my e-mail over to Gmail. Folks at Google, please don't let me down. So how did I go about doing it? Let me tell you... Step 1: Rationalize E-mails I had almost 2GB of e-mail data and many thousands of e-mail messages in ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/05/13/all-e-mail-successfully-moved-to-gmail/ The 'I Think She Knows Interlude' part (i.e. the second half) of Justin Timberlake's song Lovestoned / I Think She Knows Interlude is really quite awesome. I've heard the song a few times before, but mostly on the radio. Today, however, I heard it on my earphones (thanks to ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/05/12/i-think-she-knows-interlude-is-awesome/ In case you missed the first episode of Salam Cafe -- the new, very Aussie, very funny comedy panel and sketch show that debuted on SBS on Wednesday -- you can now watch it on the SBS website. I'm guessing all future episodes will be published there as well. ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/05/09/salam-cafe-on-sbs/ Great article on the SciAm website about sleep debt, which is the difference between how much you slept and how much you should have slept. The trick is that you can't make up for your lack of sleep during weeknights just by sleeping late on weekends, though that's very ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/05/09/repaying-your-sleep-debt/ I watched Iron Man yesterday and it rocks! I particularly liked that the writers took their time in developing Stark's character and back story -- like the Yinsen story arc -- before jumping into the action, which was also nicely done. In fact, what made the movie special was that ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/05/05/iron-man/ I truly am a geek. I am working on a new taxonomy for my e-mails (all of which I'm moving to Gmail, by the way) and...well, I'm having a really good time planning it all out! The thing is: I'm a very nested-folders type of person so switching to ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/04/30/creating-a-new-e-mail-taxonomy/ I have three primary e-mail accounts: Melbourne Business School, Yahoo! Mail Plus, and insanityWORKS.org. I also have three secondary ones: The University of Melbourne, Gmail, and Hotmail. I forward UniMelb to MBS, Gmail to Yahoo!, and I check Hotmail via a browser periodically. I POP mail from my primary accounts ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/04/27/switch-to-gmail-imap/ Want a deeper and most awesome analysis of the recent WGA strike? Read Matt Prager's essay on Lawrence Lessig's blog. http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/04/27/the-wga-strike-analysis-of-the-fundamentals/ Or is it a debacle only when, say, Microsoft does it but a minor PR issue when Apple does it? Whatever. I've been meaning to write about this for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it (the last week of my MBA starts today! Yaay!). Meanwhile, Paul ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/04/21/apples-safari-debacle/ I watched The Spiderwick Chronicles today. And while the movie was pretty good, I was most impressed by actor Freddie Highmore who played the twins Jared and Simon. (Sarah Bolger, who played their sister Mallory was also pretty good). Highmore's done a lot of other cool stuff as well. For ... http://insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2008/04/21/freddie-highmore/