Just some quick reminders and news on a few current discounts and special deals available for 43f readers.

• 30% off DEVONtechnologies applications - This one ends tonight. Check out with code "en-promo-43f-200610" for 30% off most all DEVONtechnologies apps -- including the very swell DEVONthink Pro. After midnight tonight (GMT, I'm guessing?), she is, as Daryl Hall and John Oates might say, gone.
• 10% off A2 web hosting for life - Ends January 10th 2007. Signup with 43f's web hosting service to get excellent pricing and service, plus a lifetime 10% discount. Just checkout with code "YLUSPXAWOAQAVL". A2 are very patient and helpful with me, and I suspect they will be with you as well.
• 35% off 43f ad space - Federated Media continues to offer a perfectly zany 35% discount on all graphical banners that are booked through their zesty online platform.

In somewhat related news, the Working and Living Life Smarter Conference announced last month is being rescheduled to a TBD date next year. Registrants have been notified and received refund info, but you should feel free to ask any questions to either the conference's organizer, Kay Ethier (sales at aboveandbeyondlearning daht com), or me. Will update when the new dates are announced -- I imagine that we'll have another discount to offer for 43f readers.

A2 Web Hosting

As you may know, 43 Folders is hosted through our friends at A2 Web Hosting. They’ve been great to work with and have an amazing record of stepping up to the plate whenever we have any problems — even those mysterious problems that turn out to be, uh, “pilot errors.”

NPR : Distracted No More: Going Back to Basics

Paul Ford's guest post from last month evolved into an excellent commentary on tonight's All Things Considered. Go Paul.

Distracted No More: Going Back to Basics

by Paul Ford

Commentator Paul Ford has a solution for avoiding the endless distractions a computer provides.

You can't spell "success" without "suck." A technology update full of laughter, tears, and Yosemite Sam-like hollerin'. And you might just learn something.