Snap

Snap is British slang for a snack or a packed lunch.

"'As't purrup mi snap?" - Have you prepared my sandwiches for work?

The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse

War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth

Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit

If the end is good, everything will be good (all's well that ends well)

ToDoList

[ from alt.comp.freeware ]

Here's a program geared towards folks who work on multiple projects at one time where each project has multiple sub-tasks requiring completion in a particular sequence. Its name, "ToDoList," may be plain vanilla but the program sure isn't; it can do pretty well anything with task lists you could want. Sure, there are no fancy calendar displays or Gantt charts but this is a task list manager not a project manager. While it may not have the features of a project management utility, it is, however, much more than a to-do list program; it's so capable it could be used to help manage quite large projects. I recommend everyone involved in project work to check out "ToDoList." It could be just what you are looking for. Freeware.

http://www.codeproject.com/tools/todolist2.asp

Backup Policy

[ from alt.comp.freeware ]

I have for years had a written policy on firmware development for my (one-man) company, primarily due to using consultants from time to time. Of course it always helps to keep myself straight too. If you're interested, here's a quote from that policy document:

Backups - The automatic backup feature available with many editors does not comprise an adequate backup system and indeed should normally be turned off if possible. The person doing the coding is responsible to ensure that the following minimum backups are maintained.

Only one of each category below need be maintained; that is, a backup may be overwritten with newer data except as noted.

• Save work in progress to nonvolatile (magnetic) media every 15 minutes or less, or when leaving the workstation or taking a telephone call.
• Make a copy in a separate directory under the same name after every 4 hours work.
• Make a copy on physically separate media (i. e., a different hard disk, floppy disk, or tape) after every 10 hours work.
• When more than 40 hours has been invested in a project, maintain at least two backup copies of the work, at least one of which should always be at least 1 mile distant from the primary working copy.

"Save early, save often."

The Seven Wonders of the World

The Pyramids in Egypt
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Temple of Artemis
The Statue of Zeus
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Mausoleum of Halincarnassus
The Colossus of Rhodes

Using Outlook Without Folders, Without Filing - Version 2

See excellent article at http://cnxn.ca/NoFoldersTutorial.html

Overview

This tutorial explains in detail how to use Outlook without folders or filing. We've christened this The AntiFile Methodology or AntiFiling for short. There is a single, fundamental objective with AntiFiling; minimize administration to maximize productivity. We firmly believe that people could file 95% less and be even more productive than they are now.

AntiFiling is also more than just “not using folders”. We’ve taken a hard look at the user interface in Outlook to eliminate things that tend to derail a train of thought. We wanted a method of organizing information that is universal – one place to look, consistent – one method to look for it, and simple so that it quickly becomes instinct. The less distracted we get in organizing and gathering the information the more focused we are in accomplishing the task.

Keep in mind, you may still use your folder in parallel with AntiFiling, but this may allow you to use a lot less of them and simplify your folder heirarchies for less filing.