Monday, May 16th, 2005, 3:58 am
Dreadful Vacations
Filed under: Few days scare me more than those when I return from a vacation (as in yesterday). I take certain measures to ease the pressure, e.g.:
- Mail auto-responder/s are set up to suppress incoming messages
- Wikis for correspondence (IM equivalent which updates a few times a day) are locked or put on hold
- Disappearance from Web logs and forums
- No involvement in newsgroups and mailing lists
Despite all, E-mail, newsgroups, and feeds require catching up upon return. Even worse, additional reasons to worry lurk around the corner:
- One can forgot what has recently happens in the field of IT
- Orientation within API‘s gets eroded
- Breakage of Web sites or pages
- Shortage in updates, resulting in reduced crawling
- Electronic moderation, approval, and authorisation are delayed
- Site spam in its various forms
- An extensive list of tasks which cannot not be handled remotely
- Backups which are long-overdue
So, moments after a vacation are perhaps good moments to stay isolated… and catch up.
My sister had no worries about comment spam
