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+Almost Fifteen years ago I first fired up an application named pine and tried to figure out what the electronic mail concept was all about. Amazing how in such a short period of time we've reached a point where a majority of Americans self-identify with the phrase "addicted to e-mail."
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+Or at least that's what [a new survey by AOL][1] would have us believe. The study, which surveyed 4,025 respondents 13 and older in 20 cities around the country to measure e-mail usage, contains some startling statistics, for instance:
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+>*	59 percent of you are checking e-mail in bed
+*	53 percent in the bathroom
+*	37 percent while you drive.
+*	12 percent while in church.
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+Okay, so maybe that seems a bit obsessive, but it could be that the problem isn't obsession at all, it's simply that we haven't learned to manage our e-mail very well. 
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+Regina Lewis, AOL Online Consumer Advisor, says in the press release that "e-mail addiction has less to do with curbing an obsession than it does with proper time and e-mail management."
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+There's a couple of tips listed, but they aren't going to help anyone but the most casual of users. 
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+For some real solutions for managing your e-mail, Merlin Mann of 43Folders has the best ideas I've come across. Yesterday Mann posted a video of a recent talk he gave at the GooglePlex about how to deal with e-mail.
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+The talk is an outgrowth of a series which appears on 43Folders entitled "[Inbox Zero][2]," which aims to help you deal with your e-mail in an efficient and effective manner. Ordinarily I eschew any kind of formal "life-hacking" productivity tips as overly anal, but in this case Mann's ideas really are useful.
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+Here's the video in its entirety, a bit long but worth it.
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+<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=973149761529535925&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed>
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+[2]: http://www.43folders.com/izero/
+[1]: http://press.aol.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1271
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+Earlier this week we noted the [release of YSlow][2], a handy addition to Firebug, the Firefox extension for web developers. YSlow attempts to discern reasons why your webpages are loading slowly.
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+As a result of that post I received numerous e-mails asking for more information about two of YSlow's suggestions -- adding ETags and expire headers to the files you're serving.
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+I'll confess that I too was bit baffled by both of those tips, in fact I'd never really heard of E-Tags and never bothered to investigate expire headers.
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+So, for those readers like me, I thought I'd pass along this [excellent write-up][1] on both over at Clint Ecker’s blog. While the article is focused on serving up both using the [Django web development framework][3], Ecker includes ways to configure both the Apache webserver and Lighttpd server to do the same.
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+If you're not using Django on your site, just skip those sections and check out the Apache tips (or Lighttpd if you happen to have it installed).
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+For Django the E-tags process is simple, just include some middleware in your settings.py file and you're done. For Apache you'll need to use an .htaccess file.
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+For the expire headers in Apache you'll need to check and confirm that your server is using the "mod_expired" package and then it's just a matter of adding some more lines to the .htaccess file.
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+And there you have it, ETags and expire header explained.
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+[1]: http://phaedo.cx/archives/2007/07/25/tools-for-optimizing-your-website-etag-and-expire-headers-in-django-apache-and-lighttpd/
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/got-slow-web-pa.html "Got Slow Web Pages? Find Out Why With YSlow"
+[3]: http://djangoproject.com/
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+Optimizing Your Website With Etag and Expire Headers
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+The third alpha for the next revision of Ubuntu, version 7.10, dubbed Gutsy Gibbon, was released into the wild yesterday afternoon. This release packs [a host of new features][1], but it is an alpha, so don't rush out and install this in a production environment.
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+Alpha 3 of Gutsy Gibbon is intended for developer testing only and there are still a host of known issues (click through that link and you'll notice that the number on bug, listed as "Critical" with a solution "In Progress," is that "Microsoft has a majority market share").
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+But even if Ubuntu 7.10 isn't ready for prime time, the new features list gives a peak at what you can expect from the final release in October. Among the highlights:
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+>*	By popular demand, the various theme, background and other appearance related tools have now been merged into a single dialog, allowing faster access to more settings. 
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+*	The new Rhythmbox 0.11.1 contains gapless playback and better support for visualization. 
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+*	Ebox -- a network services control tool designed to be easy to use even for non-Unix admins. Ebox allows control of a huge number of services from a single web interface. Parts of the 0.9.3 release has been packaged and many Ubuntu-specific changes have been made. 
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+*	AppArmor, a framework for providing "enhanced pro-active security" through mandatory access control -- i. e. minimize the privileges of processes to greatly reduce the potential impact of security vulnerabilities. 
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+If you'd like to assist the Ubuntu team with finding, reporting or fixing bugs, you can grab a copy of the new alpha from the [Ubuntu 7.10 development site][2].
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+[1]: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe3
+[2]: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/ 
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