Email Rain-Storm ... trying a new tactic to regain some sanity
After an interesting dinner with Willie and Ruari, talking about the South-Africa technology communities, what we 
are doing and could be doing, I came home and was on the verge of slotting in my 3G card and checking "email" just before mid-night.
Both Willie and Ruari know just how tired I was last night, after not sleeping much during the BizTalk boot camp this week, because I was the zombie trying not to fall of my chair. I would like to apologise to both Ruari and Willie for being in the state I was in ... getting to old for the 3-0 hours sleep a night mode.
Fortunately my brain was able to fire an interrupt, make the hand move away from the laptop and 3G card, and insert a new trial assembler module. Why assembler? Well, my brain is still one of the older models, with limited memory and processing bandwidth ...
The new module will be a test, namely to run Outlook in offline mode in future and to check email reactively at predefined time slots (which I will not publish) and no longer continuously/regularly/interruptive.
The core objective of the test is to stop the continuous and relentless email rain storm that seems to dominate my life. The first problem is that I am currently in a check-respond-to-email-automatic email addiction mode which I need to break and the second is that everyone who is used to me responding to emails as soon as possible, will in future be faced with longer delay period.
Let's see how it goes ... if you send me an email, expect a 24 turn-around time during business hours in future, assuming I can refrain from hitting the Send|Receive key in Outlook over the weekend.