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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Google has opened an Internet Statistics site bringing together 3rd party statistics into one place.

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions.

From the same site, a Timelines visualisation for time travel in popular film and TV. Read the comments too, some nerdy people out there.

Im trying out Outlook 2007 at the moment as my email client after using Thunderbird for years and years. This morning I read about Postbox, built using the Mozilla engine. Postbox are on Twitter too. Read a Postbox review on ReadWriteWeb.

Have you old PC parts knocking around your home or office? Give them to Bluekop.