For the last eighteen months I have had a delightfully relaxed life, employed only part-time as a research fellow. So I’ve been able to do freelancing as an IT journalist and to run Hawk Wings, to “top and tail” the day with the kids, read books and get my Latin back into shape.

But a few days ago, the college where I work made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.

As a result, from 1 January onwards, I’ll be working full-time. I still get to teach Greek and supervise research students (which is nice), but will also get to enjoy the Gordian knot (Wikipedia ) of administrative and higher education policy duties appropriate to a “Research and Executive Officer”.

It’s too early to say what this means for Hawk Wings. I have high hopes.

At the very least, it will give me a chance really to put my “Getting Things Done with Mail.app” system through the wringer.

And I’ll be able to do it fast. The job comes with a sweetner—the promise of a spanking brand new Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro after Leopard is released.mail.app, apple mac, productivity, personal, life change, getting things done, GTD

A tip on macosxhints shows people who use Mail and who have upgraded from Panther to Tiger how to save significant amounts of hard disk space by deleting files in their ~/Library/Mail/Mailfolders folder. These are files that Panther’s Mail app needed but Tiger’s does not.

It refers to an Apple tech note on the issue with further instructions. (Naturally it recommends backing up the folders first).

I did this yesterday and reduced my Mailfolders folder by 25%. It might save you some space too.

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