SUBTRONOMICS : 

• Blotter : Finally an elegant way of displaying iCal on your desktop.
• Quiet : Cuts out the noise and lets me focus on one task at a time.

"I like working on my workflows more than actually working sometimes."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

After spending hours investigating and reconfiguring my own e-mail workflow I settled on a few things.

• Gmail is the centre of the world. All filters, contacts, organization (i.e. labels) must be centralized in Gmail and then synced to all other devices. 
• Keeping the above in mind, Sparrow is my client of choice on the Mac.
• And Mailroom on iPhone.
• Its easy to set up Mac's Address Book so sync with Google Contacts.

Apple Mail currently falls short on effective threading (while the above workflow maintains Gmail style threading), lackluster search, slowness when dealing with large mailboxes and poor Gmail integration (labels are not treated as virtual mailboxes as they should - and even though you can set it up in a way so that they are - its unbearably slow if you have more than 10 labels). Obviously this will all change when Lion comes around ; but the above solution still holds one major advantage - portability. Since we're aiming for such tight Gmail integration, you can use Gmail.com anywhere and it will be exactly as you left it in Sparrow or Mailroom.   

• Alfred
• Ecoute

READING : 

• In Defense of Flogging
• Mister Lytle
• Somali Pirates' Rich Returns

ART : 

• Jacob Fellander ; collage collage collage

READING : 

• What if Osama Bin Laden had been captured?
• The Immortal Horizon
• The Suicide Catcher

I've been reading other things lately. Got hooked onto The Economist (set up auto-delivery to Kindle with Calibre). Also Science News, India Today, NYTimes, the new Agile Rails and lots of cooking cooking cooking. 

SUBTRONOMICS : 

• Attachments.me ; search through your attachments in your e-mail.

READING : 

• Digging Out ; the state (and potential) of mining in Afghanistan.
• Where's the Catch? ; modern fishing in the Bering sea.
• Lust, Devotion & The Binary Code ; on love and life in a conservative Iran.
• The Really Smart Phone ; we are all robots, on the inside.