Goal Tracking - New Year's Resoutions

I believe it was Mark Twain who said that at the beginning of a new year "is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."

This year, as usual, we sat down with a family to figure out what our New Year's resolutions are. It was interesting that each of my kids already had them in their minds: Be better at turning in homework; Get straight A's; Learn to do the splits; Learn to read chapter books; Learn to dance. It was good to get them to vocalize them. That's the first step. But the hardest part is yet to come. That's where I'm going to try out some new goal tracking software solution called joesgoals.com. It's easy. It's free. It seems effective.

Joesgoals.com has a lot of great reviews for quite a few credible sources and recently won an award from ChannelFlip. Give it a try for a month and post your comments on if it actually worked for you and how you achieve your goals in 2010. I'm anxious to hear your successes or failures. Good luck with your goal tracking.

Problem: I can send email but can't receive it in Entourage - Here's the solution

I recently had a problem where I could send email but couldn't receive it in Entourage. It was baffling! I searched all over for a solution, talked with my IT support team at the office and even went to talk to the so-called Mac "geniuses" at the Apple Store. According to them, they wouldn't "touch a Microsoft product if it was the last operating system left on earth."

So, I searched some more and found the solution to the Entourage e-mail receiving problem. I could only find this solution hidden on one site, so I thought I'd put it out here to hopefully help others:

1) Open Entourage

2) Option + Click on your main identity

3) In the next window select "Empty Cache" (note the warning.)

You should be up and running in just a few seconds. Hope this helps!

What I really want for Christmas...

If anyone out there want's to surprise me with a gift under my tree, THIS IS WHAT I'D LIKE. It doesn't matter what color it is. :)

When Your Hard Drive Hits 0 KB

Ever wondered what it was like when your storage capacity hits zero? THINGS STOP WORKING. I've suspected that the main hard drive on my home PC had some sort of leak in it a few months ago when we kept getting the automated warning, "Your Hard Drive has no more room--it's like a jar of olives. Please delete all of the junk you've accumulated over the past six years or else..."

So, as I was uninstalling Adobe CS3, it totally maxed out. Norton Security went crazy, sending me messages every 8 seconds about some mayhem that was about to ensue...and that was it.

I slowly had to take very small files off of my machine one at a time until I could finally get some of the behemoths extracted. I finally retained just over a gig of space. We'll see what happens over the next few weeks. (Secretly I'm hoping that it's hopeless and we'll have to go and buy an iMac.)