Brigid Slipka

…writings on giving & living

Entries Tagged as 'Life That’s Un-Categorizable'

Problems with Email. And Morals. And Math.

August 31st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life That's Un-Categorizable, Rants

Remember when folks used to say: well, if you don’t want to read the email all you have to do is delete it? And ‘member how we smirked when they themselves promptly became buried under college newsletters/bank statements/sale notices/PTA reminders/listserv summaries/social media updates/weird requests from hangers-on. And that’s even without reply-alls/classic spam/Great-Aunt Mary’s forwards.

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Read blog posts through RSS Reader (Google instructions)

June 20th, 2011 · Comments Off · Life That's Un-Categorizable

I’ve been walking a few people through this lately and thought it’d be easier to just plop it all in a post.  Skip if you’re all RSSavvy already. RSS is one of those things that doesn’t make much sense even you know what it means (here, “Real Simple Syndication.” See? Meaningless) but when you’ve stepped [...]

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