An empty box

Like those unappreciative kids, I have discovered that the best Christmas gift of all is an empty box.

So I gave myself one. More specifically: I’ve emptied my inbox!

Let that sink in a moment. For 10 years now, my CBC inbox has been crammed with business mail, audience mail, personal mail, junk mail, you name it. I try my best to answer, forward, file and delete, but there are days when I’ll get 100 messages, not including spam. And, to my dismay, many of these require some sort of action on my part before I can put them out of sight and out of mind. So I leave them in the inbox until I do something about them.

And I finally did. From its peak of about 1,000, over the past few weeks I whittled my GroupWise inbox down to under 50. (CBC IT’s annual purges of messages over one year old helped.) And today, it’s empty. Well, almost. There are two messages for stuff to do in the new year, but that can’t be helped.

And yeah, I filed away a few that I had been meaning to answer but now replies would be so embarassingly late as to do more harm than good. But only a few.

Those of you who use different systems, who choose not to file, or file everything right away, or use Gmail or whatever, just bite your tongues and let me revel a bit. And if you take this opportunity to e-mail crap to my work address, I’ll personally deliver you a lump of coal somewhere very uncomfortable.

Posted by: Paul Gorbould | 12-23-2006 | 03:12 AM
Posted in: Teh Internets