Information overload

If I was still working, as opposed to keeping up to date for 'enjoyment' I am reasonably I'd have had a stress related breakdown from the sheer volume of information I deal with, well try to deal with on a daily basic.

As present my hotmail account has around 200 emails I need to deal with, Yahoo has easily over a thousand, while my main address has well over 5,000 newsletters and such I need to read and act on. Then there's the trade journals. In October I caught up to date with most of them. Now there's a metre high pile of journals menacing me, muttering: "Read me if you think you are hard enough..."

It doesn't help that I cover so many areas, I guess. I /try/ to keep up to date with computer hardware, networking, Microsoft, Web design, search engine optimisation, security ...

On a typical day, I get 1 or 2 mailed computer trade journals, a selecton of downloaded journals via Zinio and an absolute minimum of 100 articles, newsletters and press releases a day, every day.

Spam is an estimated 65 million a year, but that's deleted as fast as it attacks the mail servers. That's around 2 a second, I kid you not!