Digsby Beta – Lowered Resources

Did you try Digsby but drop it when you noticed memory usage in the 50 – 120MB range? I guess I can confess that is exactly what I did… I really liked using Digsby, but that footprint really began to bug me.

Good news: the latest beta seems to have dramatically reduced the memory consumption

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Twitter Beefs

I resisted the Twitter thing until just last month, but since then I’ve become pretty gung-ho about the whole scene. It can be a nice distraction — but unlike IM, I like to think of it as a “queuing distraction.”  I can close the window and not miss anything.

I have two main beefs that if

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Friday Night Highlights

A Friday night after 8 PM and I’m still sitting at work. I’ve been doing some server maintenance and “after hours” network maintenance — along with just generally killing time — while a steam cleaning crew works over the carpets. It was a big week here; I got to put down the keyboard and use

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