Jakob Nielsen: Ten steps for cleaning up information pollution. I'm trying to move to Jakob's ideas so that I can get some big projects done. I've found that I can't get bigger projects done when I'm answering emails, IMs, and checking every weblog under the sun.

Good ideas for companies to follow to make their systems better too.

Getting snowed in today was fun otherwise. So, what happened to my laptop? I got spyware. Really awful kind too. One named SAHAGENT. Well, it started messing up my system. And the harder I tried to delete it, the harder is screwed my system. How did I get it? I let my son and his cousins play with my system.

Anyway, I started copying files off and thought I had Radio UserLand copied properly. But I didn't. Grr. No backups and I got screwed.

Jake is getting my files from the server tomorrow. Embarrassing. But I'm moving my blog to a new computer with a CDRW so I can make regular backups from there.

Some other things I learned. If AdAware freezes while scanning you know you're in trouble. In the meantime, I've found some good tools to battle spyware:

Adaware

Spybot

Spyware Blaster

If you want to visit my blog in the meantime, click here.

Yeah, I'm having troubles with my blog. Been a bad day for my blog machine. I should be back up tomorrow.