More than once I’ve tried to be more productive during a working day by limiting the times of the day that I check and respond to emails. I first came across this idea in the book The 4 hour work week and again in Do it Tomorrow.
I’ve tried working with having only certain times of the day when I check my email. It works for a day or so but I usually fail to keep going for any number of reasons such as meetings, phone calls (because I didn’t respond to an email) or even my own habit of opening up my mail without even thinking.
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I’ve created my first ever API. I often work with and develop applications around APIs from other providers such as the Twitter API or one of the many APIs provided by Google but this is my first time creating an API that others can use.
Built using CodeIgniter, the API has a simple purpose, to take in a browser agent id string and return whether it thinks the browser agent is a bot or a regular web browser such as Internet Explorer being used by a person browsing the web.
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For the last week or so, I had a caption competition here on the blog. The 5 winners received 2GB USB keyrings compliments of Littlequiz.com
It was a fun picture taken of me working outside in a large pool that had formed due to the heavy rains in Cork recently.
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The 5 winners of the caption competition, winning groovy 2GB USB keys from Littlequiz.com are :
Ger Swanser
…’dear diary, when i asked for an office with a ‘light airy feel’ i think they took me too literally…..’
Paysan
AIB repossessions get serious…
Marcela
So you got an invite for Google Wave, then
Tomas McGuinness
As Gordon read through his email, he began to get a strange, sinking feeling….
Patricia Doyle
This online f(psh)ishing is not all its cracked up to be
Thank you everyone for all the great comments, it was good fun reading through them.
I didn’t pick out the winners in case I was biased in any way so I asked some friends and family to read through them and pick out 5 of the best. I’ve emailed each of the winners earlier this morning.
My nephew Donal tested the quality of the prizes before they go out in the post.
