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Trying out Zimbra Desktop March 12, 2010

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I installed Zimbra today and found the interface to be fairly intuitive and the operation to be quite smooth. However, as nice as it is, I am not sure I can give up Outlook entirely and switch to Zimbra. Anyone out there have any thoughts on Zimbra as compared to Outlook?

Avoid “Sync in a Blink” if you have 500+ Contacts March 8, 2010

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I found “Sync in a Blink” in the iTunes app store. At first glance, it seemed to be a good solution to synchronize my Exchange and Gmail contacts. However, the application did not work for me. When I attempted to synchronize all my contacts, it would crash. When I attempted to synchronize 50 contacts at a time, it held up for a while. Then somewhere around 400 contacts, it became unstable and began creating duplicates and crashing again.

So, for now, I am back to using gSyncit — which isn’t perfect either but it is the best solution I have been able to find thus far. And, since it is possible to configure gSyncit to perform a uni-directional (Outlook –> Gmail) sync, I can keep my contact data safe.

Are You “Excited” About The Baby? March 2, 2010

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Ever since we found out that we were having a baby, friends and family have asked me whether I was excited about it. I ended up answering in the affirmative because that was the response expected of me.

Truthfully however, I have been more worried than excited. I believe that pure “excitement” comes from either being truly secure (e.g. professionally/financially) or from an utter lack of appreciation of upcoming needs.

So, over the last few months, I have been going about taking actions that have slowly replaced my worry with excitement. These actions include increasing my life insurance, starting a 529 plan for the baby’s college education, finding a larger apartment, getting some health tests done, and making some general lifestyle changes.

Knowing that I have done all that I could have to prepare for the baby has gone a long way in eliminating my worries. So, while it is still a little unnerving to think that I will soon be responsible for something without an “on-off” switch, I am finally feeling excited and truly happy about it.