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	Wednesday, August 6, 2003

Underwhelmed by Entourage's Exchange Support

Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) recently released that the Microsoft Exchange Update for Entourage X (v10.1.4). Since we run Exchange at the office, I was very excited to get an Exchange client for my Mac. I've been making due with IMAP with MacOS X Mail, and that works OK. What I missed, though, was calendar/scheduling. Well, this update does give me access to my Exchange calendar, but I haven't been able to view others schedules. I can view our ActiveDirectory; however, we have some public folders with shared contacts, and those are pretty much useless. For that matter, public folders with anything other than e-mail are pretty much useless, e.g. shared calendars. From what I can tell, this Exchange integration is little more than a wizard for configuring IMAP access to e-mail and LDAP to access ActiveDirectory. The Exchange calendar access is better than nothing, but it could use work.

Certainly keeps the bar pretty low for the rumored Exchange integration in Panther.
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Joi Ito on P-time

Joi Ito makes me feel better about the way I spend my time by applying a cool-sounding term: P-time.

Ever since I started IRC, I've noticed that I'm reading much less email, getting a lot less structured work done, but having a much better sense of what's going on in our "space" and able to tie a bunch of pieces together that weren't tied together before. I think some people mistake this type of contextual multi-tasking as some form of ADD. I think I'm switching from M-time to P-time. Edward Hall in Beyond Culture describes the difference between P-time and M-time. ...
[Joi Ito's Web]

I often joke that I have ADD (Probably insensitive to those with ADD. I apologize.), but I really don't think that is the case at all. I can definitely focus on one thing when needed. However, I find that I'm drawn to doing multiple things at once. This is a much better spin on that then the article a while back that suggested that multitasking makes you stupid.
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