Monthly Archive for January, 2010

An Outlook Macro to Archive Items like GMail

I’m a big fan of Gmail’s archive feature- I can move items out of the inbox quickly and find them later with search.  To mimic this behavior at work with outlook, I’ve created this quick and dirty macro which does the job.  Simply create a folder named “archive” in your mailbox.  When you run the macro, it will move the current item in your inbox to that folder.  I’ve created a keystroke which lets me run the macro easily.

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Rocking the Rackspace Cloud

I’ve been unhappy with my current hosting provider and in looking for an alternative I tried Rackspace Cloud Server.  I’ve wanted a dedicated server for a while, but it’s been cost prohibitive compared to shared machine hosting.  This blog, as well as some other, smaller sites, are now running on a Rackspace Cloud Server.  Needless to say I love it.  Rackspace Cloud Server is simply awesome.

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