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Postings from July 2011
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I've got six weeks of work to do in that number of days, so I'll be
be almost entirely out of email-touch during that time. From July 25-29th
I'll be attending OSCON in Portland, and over weekend of August 12-14th
I'll be attending my high-school reunion in Lake Geneva--and celebrating
being done with updating Programming Perl. Cue the fireworks.
In the meanwhile, I will not in general be reading, let alone answering,
any incoming email. The five exceptions are as follows, with suggested
tags to add to the subject line to make sure I notice them:
#1: Life-and-death situations -- why are you using email for that?
(e.g.) Subject: [1=DYING] blah blah blah
#2: Personal family matters of my own relations -- again, try the phone.
(e.g.) Subject: [2=FAMILY] blah blah blah
#3: Issues @work w/my University textmining job *INVOLVING ME PERSONALLY*.
(e.g.) Subject: [3=WORK] blah blah blah
#4: Prepping my 4.5h of Unicode talks for next week's conference in Portland.
(e.g.) Subject: [4=OSCON] blah blah blah
#5: Prepping a kilopage of the Camel Book's 4th ed. for Production by mid-August.
(e.g.) Subject: [5=BOOK] blah blah blah
Because I will *disconnecting my laptop from the Internet* so I can
actually get something done, I'll be answering mail twice a day *only*:
1) once cheerfully between 5-7am MDT (UTC-0600)
2) once perhaps rather grumpily between 6-8pm MDT (UTC-0600)
I'm a morning person, so those are the only two choices you're liable to
get: gleeful or glowering, with little middle ground. I expect to answer
no mail outside those five special categories listed above until well into
August. It **might** happen, but never count on it.
Thank you for your forebearance.
--tom