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It's a great idea. Works very well. :) - felix

just be careful that you are storing company email with potentially sensitive data with a third party that is known to data mine them and offer ads to you. The question I'd ask is do you have windows SBS that comes with exchange, if you do then I'd recommend that over any third party as your number one option. - alphaxion

@alphaxion - no, we are a small architecture office w/o the use of Exchange or SBS. Currently, our email is pulled down and held locally to each workstation. There are no in-place back-up procedures for that information and w/ Gmail, we get instant message legacy. - JA Castillo (جاسون)

Go outside and 'play" - ( play sports, run/walk, hike, tennis, swim or whatever to get my mind away from it). Usually the answer of 'what should I do next comes?'- when I am not banging my head against it - Tracy Benham

When I feel really stuck, I take a class at the local community college. Don't know that it helps directly, but 16 weeks later, things are usually moving better. - Marty

From Zenhabits.net: "The first step is allowing yourself to not care and being honest with what you do care about it. That’s where most people get stuck. A lot of people spend their lives working on things they don’t care about." - manielse

Lots of wisdom you all have there. I get overwhelmed by things I think are hindering my progress and then I develop this inertia and stay stuck. For instance - I view or see being an introvert as a huge hindrance to my particular type of business, so although I do things "out-of-the-box", I get discouraged when I see other people have such an easy breezy time who are more outgoing, so then I will think I won't also be able to reach my dreams since I'm not like them. - Jannifer Stoddard

I exercise hardcore, so I can clear my mind. - Shevonne

Slam my head into it until something gives - MiniMage (FakeLifePerson)

I get discouraged when I see others stealing my ideas or content and then they take it and have great success. I get tired of monitoring that, fighting against that, etc... Wears me out. It's like going round and round with hard work, others capitalizing on my hard work, I fight it, then analyzing things to death, then getting discouraged, then inertia, then clouded and stuck... - Jannifer Stoddard

Jannifer: Assuming you are talking about your online business. The internet is a powerful place for Introverts. Use the social networks as your tool, your friend. The internet is also like you said a vicious place to compete. GaryVee is fighting hard, you need to fight harder or smarter than your competitors. That can be draining but it's the nature of business. - manielse

Exercise - that's something I should do more of instead of sitting around studying and analyzing things to death. I'm grossly out of shape! - Jannifer Stoddard

I clean house and throw or give things away. A bike ride is always helpful, too. - Chris Baskind

I take a long walk - fortunately we live near a greenway. biking on the greenway also clears my mind. - Mike Nencetti

Manielse - right - my online business, but the more traditional "bread and butter" of it is getting out and meeting people, having shows, expos and those type of things. I did have the very best advantage as far as online presence and although I'm still on page 1 and page 2 of Google searches, it draws the bad type of attention from my competition, who then take various measures to knock me out. - Jannifer Stoddard

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. - Sun Tzu - Robert Hafer

I'm always thinking about how to prevent or stop competitors from capitalizing on my work and this makes me hesitant to move forward because it's like I'm working for them, then I'm analyzing things to death. Meanwhile, the inertia causes me to lose ground in a huge way while I watch others make huge strides quite rapidly. - Jannifer Stoddard

Find an Extroverted partner for the Traditional half and perhaps that person can even create a video podcast discussing your items. You can be the Jay Adelson (CEO of Digg) while someone plays the Kevin Rose role. Trying to prevent or stop competitors does nothing except hold you back from moving forward. - manielse

Resistance drains energy ~ Acceptance saves it. - manielse

Manielse - that's exactly what I've been looking for and failing at getting - more extroverted independent "partners" to join with me and work together. I have a ton of resources, but they just sit there, because they're not effective for just one person (me), but are for a group of people to utilize together. - Jannifer Stoddard

If you're talking about your "Demonstrators", that's not uncommon in your business model. You'll have a lot of "resources" that will just sit there but 1-2% will shine. I thought you meant the CEO-type activities. Very different issues... - manielse

I work best in situations where there is synergy and connection. Trying to move forward alone isn't effective in this type of business. And you're right manielse - I definitely spend too much time trying to prevent or stop competitors and that's one of the main ways I'm getting stuck. I'm not sure how I would go about acceptance (particularly if it has to do with accepting my unique ideas and content being stolen and used). - Jannifer Stoddard

Oh - sorry manielse - didn't mean to be confusing. I'm just yapping to myself I guess. - Jannifer Stoddard

Seems like I kind of hijacked the tread and we're yapping together. :-) - manielse

I share your moving forward alone versus lack of synergy & energy of the same passion issue as well BTW. Too many times in the past (and present) I just get frustrated and try to do EVERYTHING by myself. - manielse

I bake. - Steven Perez

Manielse - you expressed it exactly! - Jannifer Stoddard

Well, I just got back from Lowes and walked around a lot - hope that counts as exercise! - Jannifer Stoddard

Liked, but I haven't used it. I guess Google or Yahoo groups don't do it for you? - Andy Bold

No, I'm looking for easier to use newsletters to send out occasionally for my business - I've been really bad at not getting around to emailing things out to people :-/ - Jannifer Stoddard

the popular one (but it pisses me off) is constant contact. for the slightly more technically inclined there's phplist... but you need a public-facing webserver (for unsubscribe) with php + a database to set it up. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

Thanks, Justin. Unfortunately, there are no instructions for me to go by and the verbiage in the box just describes what the device does. Hoping to figure this out so shooting w/ my Brownie and Mamiya C330 will be a bit better than "lucking out"! :) - JA Castillo (جاسون)

DIN is what we call ISO today. I have a Sekonic meter that looks like it might date back to the same time as this one; I'll check the manual when I get home to see if I can come up with some instructions. - Cecily

Looks like you might be able to dig up a printed manual -http://www.oldtimercameras.com/stock... - Ken Sheppardson

@Cecily - thanks, that would be much appreciated. I am not able to sort this one out yet! Quick question...if DIN is what we would refer to as ISO today, what is the ASA equal to? - JA Castillo (جاسون)

@Ken - I may have to look into something like that if Cecily is unable to provide some insight. Thanks! - JA Castillo (جاسون)

I'm still looking! - Cecily

OK, here goes nothing (I couldn't find the manual). It looks like first you need to find a DIN/ISO equivalent chart - http://www.film.project-consultant.net/html... - the DIN/ASA/ISO is basically the speed of your camera (or film). Then point the end of the meter toward the center of your light source. The needle on the dial should point to a particular value. Set the... more... - Cecily

I can't make everything out from the photo (I need to see it larger) but you might follow along with the manual for my meter here: http://www.butkus.org/chinon... (don't worry, it's free). - Cecily

Try this link... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3341... - JA Castillo (جاسون)

It still looks like my suggestion might work, but then again you might be better off trying Ken's link for a specific manual. - Cecily

This is actually a secret. Being a DBA is the easiest job in IT and it pays well. - Peter Kruit

Learning SQL from O'Reilly http://bit.ly/puOi8 - andy brudtkuhl

Or jump into Microsoft Access - andy brudtkuhl

Is this true Peter? I have heard from some people in the IT industry that there is always demand for DBAs - I remember trying to learn it in school and the SQL queries can get quite complicated if you don't have the mind for it - Wang Yip

@Dan, the "you" thing doesn't appears in my box. Does it appear for you ? Can you tell me more ? - fwed

fwed, although it's labeled "You", it should appear in the list of all subscriptions alphabetized by your name. You're looking in the box that appears when you select "Add/remove friends" in the header bar for a friend list, right? - Dan Hsiao

That's right where I am looking. Here is a screenshot : http://is.gd/12ked - fwed

Anyone else sees the "You" thing ? - fwed

why not use disk utility and do a secure erase that should work - Kim Landwehr

Buy a new HD is most secure but the multipass erase is probably good enough for non-NSA types - Andrew Leyden

I post to Twitter via FF or Ping.fm, but don't use the site. - Kelly W.

@Kol, indeed. That's a problem I don't have because i'm new hehe. - fwed

@Kelly, why use ping.fm AND ff ? - fwed

Seems about 5 minutes with PHP/ASP/[insert language you like here] could generate the appropriate RSS passing in the MP3 URL as a parameter. I should also add that this is probably easily done as well with Yahoo Pipes. - Kevin Kuphal

ugh, all I want to do is share an mp3 here on Friendfeed and have the playbar show up. I guess there's no way to link directly to an RSS via a FriendFeed share without setting it up as one of your linked services... - Nathan Chase

Nathan, you could use Drop.io. Upload the mp3 there and feed the drop into FF: the player shows up here properly. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Tina would I have to add it as one of my services? - Nathan Chase

Yup. Although, you might be able to create a group, feed it in there, and reshare it. EDIT: you could also try using the bookmarklet on it, that might work but I haven't tried it. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

It'd be nice if you could just paste in the link to the MP3 the same way you can paste a link to a video and have the embedding happen automagically. - Ken Sheppardson

ah - good call Tina! that might be the solution - Nathan Chase

Tina - thank you! that worked splendidly! http://friendfeed.com/nathanc... - Nathan Chase

I like Ken's idea. I'll try Drop.io too, and have another look at Posterous and Utterli - I'm sure there are lots of other FriendFeeders who would like a simple way to do this. - Chris Loft

You can do what you want by using noiseriver, if not just for that one post. I use it all the time to post FFundercats episodes, since it allows a picture and a MP3 and is instant. - Josh Haley

So what did you end up doing, Nathan? I see it's a Posterous link. Just set up Posterous to post to FF and use it as a client? - Ken Sheppardson

I ended up creating a private group, added the posterous as a service to it, and then reshared it to my Home feed. Definitely a long workaround - but it did do the trick! - Nathan Chase

Aha... interesting... By the way, I think I've seen people using Yahoo Pipes to pull in their blip.fm feeds and create an embedded player, so maybe Pipes is another service to stick in the toolbox. - Ken Sheppardson

Yeah - I definitely think being able to link directly to an MP3 file and have the playbar show up would be a nice feature. I will suggest it to the FF team. - Nathan Chase

There is, of course, what seems to be the universal answer to anything FriendFeed doesn't already do, or to bringing back stuff FF used to do but doesn't anymore: Greasemonkey script. If the API supports creating an MP3 item, something in the browser could handle it for you. - Ken Sheppardson

Nathan, did you try sharing the item with the bookmarlet? That should in theory work if the items is properly coded onto the page. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I've not used it much but I've heard good things about Revolution Money Exchange. - Rochelle

But you have used it once or twice? - JA Castillo (جاسون)

I've used Google checkout before successfully with people who didn't use Paypal and it worked great, but I don't know if it has fees. - Trish R

Forgot about Checkout. Do you have to have a "store" in order to use it? Or can it be used to trade funds as we are looking to do? Hmm...off to read up on this... - JA Castillo (جاسون)

JA Castillo, yes, a few times when it first came out. - Rochelle

You could look into http://obopay.com. When this site opened over a year ago, I signed up and got the $25 signup/referral fee, and they paid me, but I haven't used it to send money. However, it says it's only 25 cents to send money. - Trish R

they all charge fees. that's how they make their money and stay in business. ikobo.com or westernunion.com might work. moneybookers.com is another option. or do a straight up wire transfer from your bank to his. - tiffany

You could check out https://expensify.com/ [EDIT] --- at least I think. They used to have a send/request money feature, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. - Justin Korn

Am I correct that Constant Contact slaps on their logo to the bottom of any email you send out? Kind of concerned if that's the case. Vertical Response seems to have the best pricing (0.15 cents per email)... - Nathan Chase

@Nathan I think they do that, but don't remember. You sometimes get what you pay for. - Shevonne

yeah - that's what I was afraid of... :( - Nathan Chase