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Hi Patrick,

Since you’re slow-posting right now, I thought I may help you out with some content. Here is a photo of my home office set-up.

Just a note that the slow posting will continue for the first part of this week. I’m still on vacation in Washington D.C. visiting my Dad, friends, and the occasional really cool person I admire deeply who are working on things that rock.

That said, I’m getting some occational reading in and here are the things that are possibly out of context for this space but have captured my attention and are worth sharing:

FlexCal :

Notify 2 Preview: A Miniature Email Client – Mac.AppStorm: The new version of Notify brings about a number of major changes. For instance, it has been completely rebuilt, and instead acts like an IMAP client for your Gmail, Google Apps, Rackspace, MobieMe or any other type of email account.

“The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do”

- How Chipotle, Pinkberry, and others win big by doing just a few things well - (37signals)

chrisbowler:

With our recent move to the farm, I once again had a chance to put together an office setup that pleased me in every way. My past offices at home have been decent, but always ended with something I dislike — a messy pile of cables.

Please forgive the slowdown in posting that will occur over the next 2 weeks. I’m leaving for vacation this upcoming Friday and returning the following Wednesday. This, of course, means that I have crammed all of the client work I normally would have had next week into this one. Not to mention the rigors of preparing to take a 21 month old on any extended trip. Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding.

Somewhat related, I may be seeking guest curators for times such as these. I will announce if that happens.

MiniMail Updated to Version 2.0:

Apartment Therapy Unplugged | What Are Your Tech Essentials?:

AT poses the question for commenter response,”If you were to boil down your tech possessions to three essential items, which would they be?”

What I find interesting here is how many of the commenters have a hard time getting it down to three. I also find it interesting how many do not get it down below three (none).

mondays top 5 - hidden preferences:

Nice roundup of useful “defaults write” terminal commands that allow for some very useful options in Mac OS X. I have enabled all of these.