April 2009 - Posts
I admit it…I have issues with email. So much so that I think I may have OCD. I’m not trying to make fun of anyone that really has that disorder but I sure feel like I’m obsessed with unread email. I can’t stand it in fact. When a new mail arrives in my inbox I seem to stop what I'm doing and read it. This is not helpful for someone that gets hundreds of emails a day. Yes most are from monitors and alerts that technically I don’t need to read right away but I can’t stand having those little emails be bolded like they are in Outlook. I have rules set up to move them into different folders…perhaps I should have rules to mark them as read. It gets distracting too…like when I’m writing I see an email pops in and jump over to it and read it. Ohhh and something that just drives me nuts is when I see someone else's Inbox and it looks like this – Inbox (313). What are you people thinking…how can you have that many unread messages??? I know you just aren’t as compulsive as me and I'm just extremely jealous.
Tonight I go to my first therapy session – Must Read Email Anonymous…crap I guess its not so anonymous now! :)
If you’ve got time on such short notice try to check out the webcast O’Reilly is hosting on What’s New in Active Directory for Server 2008 R2. It is going to be hosted by two other Directory Services MVPs Brian Desmond and Laura Hunter.
This is a free event and is scheduled for 90 mins.
Date: Friday, April 24, 2009
Time: 10am San Francisco | 6pm London | 1pm - New York | Sat, Apr 25th at 3am - Sydney | Sat, Apr 25th at 2am - Tokyo | Sat, Apr 25th at 1am - Beijing | 10:30pm – Mumbai
Registration Link - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1326
Everyone has there own reason for loving or hating April Fools Day. For the last 4 years it has been a day of great joy for me. I got the email shortly from Microsoft that I was re-awarded my MVP for Directory Services! I really think this blog has a lot to do with it and that means that i’m especially grateful to all 17 people (12 of which are probably family) that read it too!!! Thanks to all of you for engaging me on through the comments and I hope that you will continue.
Here's to another great year of technical discovery in the Life of Brian.