I swore I wouldn't

Very recently, I found myself in new surroundings.  For the past thirteen years, I have received a steady paycheck from the good people at AOL (more specifically, the awesome team working on AIM Express. Deciding it was time for greener pastures, I left and started managing the technology for a very exciting consulting firm in Lansdowne, Virginia.  While this change is incredibly exciting, it certainly adds a lot more to think about.  My days prior to this were focused, almost exclusively, on implementing a flash-based AIM client.  My days now involve everything from portal vendor selection, to setting up SVN repositories,  to helping co-workers configure their mail clients.  With this newfound increase in scope of my duties, it dawned on me that it was time to go re-re-re-watch Merlin Mann’s google tech talk on Inbox Zero.  If you haven’t seen it, I can’t recommend it enough.  I spent a few days implementing some of Merlin’s suggestions, and I now have complete inner peace (alright, I don’t have inner peace, but at least now I don’t feel like I need to re-scan my email for things I might have missed.)