David McCandless, crafter of the buzz vs. bulge caffeine/calories axis we dug, examined his work days and found a kind of protocol for what was likely to pull him away from actual work. It’s both smile inducing and thought provoking. You’ll chuckle once or twice reading through McCandless’ examination of how certain things (hot strangers following on Twitter) are more likely to grab his attention than others (a Google AdSense summary).

Lifehacker had some links to try during a Gmail outage: Plain HTML: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html Safe Mode: http://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0 Old version: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1 Bypass browser checking: http://mail.google.com/mail?nocheckbrowser Mobile version: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=mobile iPhone version: http://mail.google.com/mail/x/gdlakb-/gp/ iGoogle gadget: http://www.google.com/ig/gmailmax

jonobacon.org: Recently LifeHacker had an article talking about five things they would like to see in Ubuntu. The article is very supportive of Ubuntu, and we appreciate that LifeHacker folks, and I wanted to follow up with a few notes. Advertisement: read more