Good Friday!
Below are my picks for the week. The phone links are for Kristy, the web design is for Tim, and I’d like to welcome Wayne to the list. I believe this is episode #6, and is a bit longer than usual for the holidays. Enjoy!
Peter
* Are you ever in a situation where you need to give out your phone number, but want that person to forget they have it after a week? http://www.privatephone.com/ will give you a voicemail number that can email you and text message your phone whenever you get a new message. It is a free service. Feel free to try it on my private number: 651.967.7719. Custom messages and everything.
* You can also try http://www.craigsnumber.com/ which will connect the caller directly to your phone (no voicemail), but works much like calling collect. Try my number @ (415) 234 5400 x640 which expires in 1 week. I’ll get a call with a “do you want to accept a call from
* David Pogue, NY Times reviews Microsoft’s new operating system Vista. Available today for business, and expected to be released for home users in January: http://tinyurl.com/wd5b7
* Web 2.0 design guide: http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm It would be nice to include some of the principles into Pivotal some day…
* No link, but a quote I enjoyed this week: “[Work] below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.” [Pablo Picasso]
* Picture: 5MB Hard Disk in 1956 http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422
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