How I Use

  • I recommend Basecamp for project management and collaboration

    The people over at 37 Signals , the makers of Basecamp, have started an affiliate program. I recommend them. They certainly don’t need any more buzz than they already have, but here’s my take: Not fussy. Nothing is that big of a deal on Basecamp. Everything is just sort of another thing to do. Lots…

  • Car Music & Google Video

    So I have been uploading stuff to Google Video for a while now and here’s how I use it. For art: It gives me an outlet for a dumb little type of art I’ve been doing for a few years now: Car Music. Basically, if something comes on the radio that is either really interesting…

  • How I Feel About Fantasy Football

    I added another thing to my “Thought I’d Never do THAT” list by joining a Fantasy Football League. Here’s how I feel about Fantasy Football: Conflicted. I get mildly interested in some games that the Pittsburgh Steelers (born there, saw the 4 Super Bowl championships in the 70s) and Chicago Bears (live here, saw 1985…

  • GMail as Online File Storage

    I was lucky enough to get a GMail account about 3 days after their beta launched because I met some arcane formula on my Blogger usage. I liked GMail from the start, and invited lots of people, and evangelized all over for the Google love. Then time passed, Yahoo! increased their storage space, and my…

  • Searching for John F. Burns

    Here’s another in the “How I Use” series: Google Alerts. Over the last few months I have migrated the bulk of my news consumption and web research from Google to Yahoo!. In fact, my browser start page is now Yahoo! News, even though I was once a huge lover of the automaton Google News. I’ve…