FISTFULAYEN

For anyone who is actually interested in getting work done, let me make a couple of simple productivity recommendations:

1) Turn off the Instant Message. You might think it’s making you productive. You are wrong. Very wrong. Turn it off. You will see. When you start leaving work at 3pm instead of 8pm, you will thank me. Sure, you’ll miss the hilarious new flash movie with the cats dancing or the kid rapping or whatever but you’ll fucking live.

2) Tell your email client to stop telling you when you have mail. Take that “check mail every X minutes” option and just turn it the fuck off. Check e-mail twice a day unless you have a reason to check it more often. You’re spending all day replying to e-mail and unless you’re working customer service, that is not work. If you reply to everything in the morning, then again just after lunch, I guarantee you won’t miss anything. And you can get shit done the rest of the time. And get the fuck away from the computer sooner rather than later.

I’m never on IM, but I’m *always* on IRC. Which is like having IM with only the people you work with. A real virtual office. Except you can all talk to eachother, and you don’t have to tell everyone the same thing in 20 different windows. It’s OG and superior in every way. Come by and hang out:

1) Download an IRC client
PC Peoples: http://www.mirc.com
Mac Peoples: http://www.snak.com

2) Install that Biatch

3) Set it to connect to irc.cockos.com

4) Set it to connect on startup

5) Set it to join a channel on startup
In mIRC, Options, Perform, then put:
/join #mediacode
/join #fistfulayen
into the perform window.
There’s something similar in Snak, but I can’t remember what it is.
Once that’s done, you’ll jump in there every time you open the program.

Replace your IM with IRC. Invite your friends. Enjoy. You will thank me.