I have been Cultured Code customer for over 2 years and used multiple their products: Things on OS-X, Things for iPad and iPhone on daily basis. Not any more. I am definitely giving up on Things and Cultured Code products. The reason why is sheer frustration from long wait on usable synchronization between Things on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Something that have been discussed, promised, chewed over 2 years and that still does not work.

It is a connection to old friends and colleagues from the old continent and old country. It is a family connection. It is a connection to people that are not on FB through their friends or relatives that are. It is a link to people I worked with and wanted to keep in touch. It is a link to people I share common interest with My public profile is here https://www.

Since 2005 when I switched to GMail, I was living in browser. For better or worse, I learn to put up with issues like speed, lack of hotkeys, UI that is not as responsive as it should be, drag and drop that works most of the time. To be fair, in these five years browsers and GMail UI improved tremendously. It was rational decision to trade all these for simplicity of the UI.

1) make sure the DNS works sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220 nameserver 192.168.16.1 2) check that you have ntpd installed cat /etc/ntp.conf 3) make it work in all /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep ntpd sudo /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 ntpd on 4) Initial sync sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 5) Start service / restart sudo /sbin/service ntpd start

I have came to a conclusion that I do have too much stuff in my life. Too much and too little and the same time. Too much information. Too many interruptions and distractions. Too little time to think. Too much consumption of information and not enough time to process it and do anything meaningful with it - learn from it or create something new. The only way how to get out of the self-digged hole is to start cutting.