writing great email

Like many people, I get a lot of email. Maybe not as many as Cory or Steve, but a few hundred a day, fairly easily. I manage to read and respond to most of it pretty quickly.

Last March, boingboing pointed out Stever Robbins’ article at the Harvard Business School, Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload. In September, they followed that up with Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders piece, Writing sensible email messages.

Update: Guy Kawasaki has more tips.

Update 2: tips from Richard Jones.

Go read these. I’ll wait.

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where the money went

Florida university discovers misplaced $275,000:

Three University of South Florida officials were fired after the school discovered $275,000 in misplaced checks and cash scattered throughout an office.

Nearly half the money at the school’s English Language Institute — $133,647 — was in checks up to 10 years old and could not be deposited, said university spokeswoman Michelle Carlyon.

pilot dumps drunk man on island

don’t piss off monarch air:

The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a bottle of wine on the four-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife.

He became so abusive the fed-up pilot diverted the Monarch Airlines Airbus to Porto Santo island off West Africa.

After the plane touched down, the man was marched off by police and had his luggage dumped on the tarmac.

war plan red

Back in the day, the United States drew up plans to go to war with Canada. Long since declassified, the plans were dragged out for humourous effect by the Washington Post.

Out in Winnipeg — the Manitoba capital, whose rail yards were slated to be seized in the plan — Brad Salyn, the city’s director of communications, said he didn’t think Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz knew anything about War Plan Red: “You know he would have no clue about what you’re talking about, eh?”

“I’m sure Winnipeggers will stand up tall in defense of our country,” Mayor Katz said later. “We have many, many weapons.

“What kind of weapons?”

We have peashooters, slingshots and snowballs,” he said, laughing.