Warren Seen

After having signed up for slicehost six++ months ago, I’ve finally gotten around to migrating this site from my old shared host onto my new slice, so here it is. Everything appears to have come across smoothly, although it took more than a few hours to tweak everything to my liking.

In the end, I opted not to host my own email, a strategic decision based on the time and effort required on my part to set up, configure and most importantly, secure and maintain a mail server. Instead, I spent fifteen minutes of my time setting up Google Apps. Being able to keep my personalised email address, with 6Gb of storage and full access via POP3 and IMAP (although it’s a tad quirky since GMail doesn’t support folders in the traditional sense) plus access via the GMail web UI on the go, it offers the best solution for my mail needs across multiple machines.

It’s been a busy time of year for me surprisingly, so much so that I’ve again picked up the GTD book and made another, more concerted effort to get my “things” done. It really feels like I don’t have enough hours in the day with all these different things on the go, and I’ve really noticed the relief that comes from being able to “braindump” everything that’s on my mind and start tackling it in a sensible way.

I’ve never been one for new year’s resolutions, but I definitely have started making plans to be more proactive this year, rather than just letting all this “stuff” control me. So here’s to new beginnings…

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