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Jotting away

I recently discovered the Jott website. Jott is a web application that allows you send email and create notes to yourself by using highly sophisticated voice recognition software. (It is able to decipher my accent with 90% accuracy). The website is still in beta, so all its features are for free for now. I guess this will change as soon as they get a decent customer base.

To work with the website is very easy. First, you fill out a very simple registration form and activate your account by email. Then, you can import your contacts or enter them manually. After that, you just call the Jott number and dictate to whom you want to send the massage and the message itself.

Here are two helpful links regarding Jott.

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Blogging 2008

The last year had its share of goals I accomplished both on the personal and on the business levels. One thing I dissapointed myself is with the amount of posts I published in my blog this year. It’s not that I’m not aware how benficial is to write a blog its just pure laziness…

I just finished reading this post and I decided, No more excuses. So, this year one of my resolutions is write more. Easy to say, right? well in order to write more first I need to find out why I didn’t write as much I wanted. After much research and thought (30 to 60 seconds… what!? it was easy to find the answers), I came with the following list of top 3 reasons that I do not write more.

1. No time - Pure excuse, I only need 15-30 minutes a day, I could actually write before I go to sleep, work, whatever… I’m sure that if I put my mind into it I could find the time. I can record my favorite show, write something in the blog and then go back and see the show, then I could even skip the commercials….

2. Nothing interesting to write - duh? I am a software developer who opened his own business two years ago, grew it and although its still a small business its doing pretty well so far. So this again is unfortunately another lame excuse.

3. My writing skills are crap - OK, English in not my native tonuge but I still have basic writing and reading skills.
Second, I could always get a book, oops I have a book, I just need to open it and read it a bit.

So no more procrastinating, here starts 2008… let start blogging…

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