Humor in the midst of the End of Days, and a few words of advice on multiple email management

http://kamikazeearth.blogspot.com/ is absolutely one of the best sites to follow.  I know, it's not about freelancing or business or anything. . . really, that I am usually focused on and talk about, but give it a follow.  And maybe send them an email, because they are hiring writers for their blog.  Surprise!  It really was about freelancing and making dough!  

This site is filled strictly with sick, satirical stuff; mostly about the developing trouble we have gotten ourselves into over the last 10 years as a race and the End Days.  Even if you aren't a religious whack-job or an armchair theorist on the Mayan calendar, you can't deny things are pretty much completely out of effing control, showing no signs of improving, and showing every sign of becoming even worse.

Trust me, don't subscribe to the Week. I can't stop reading it, and thinking about it, and I am to the point I can almost guess what the next  week's cover story is going to be based upon the previous weeks display of hubris, stupidity, and brutality.

Either way, give http://kamikazeearth.blogspot.com/ a thumbs up, and if you got a good pair of 'em to bring humor to the apocalypse, I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.

The 5:30 in the morning Email streamlining lesson
Freelancers and small business professionals often have to present themselves in a variety of ways to a variety of people.  The best way to do this online is to have different emails, and potentially even different profiles to accompany them.  Wouldn't it be nice if you could get ALL of them in one place and have your email client organize and respond automatically to each?  Here is how to do it.

The example I'm using is Gmail, because Outlook, Thunderbird, and their ilk are garbage, pure and simple.  Useless, outdated, prone to error, difficult to maneuver trash.

• First, pick an email to be your master account.  Use it to send out requests to send emails as your other accounts along with names or businesses where appropriate.  When prompted, put the same secondary address in the "reply-to email" option so your clients think they are talking only to one account.  This will make your master account invisible when communicating from other addresses.
• Second, verify this with your other accounts and allow the master account to conduct business under these other names.  While you are here, go into the email forwarding and forward all email to the master address.  You can also send a request to the master account to be allowed to send mail as the secondary accounts.  This may be doing the same thing twice as in step one, but it'll ensure no screw ups occur.
• Third, return to the master account, verify that you'd like all the other email messages forwarded to you, and if you sent the additional requests for the master account to act as the secondary ones, verify those as well.
• Finally, in your master account email options set up profiles for the secondary accounts (i.e. what the name is and what the email address is.  Then select a little further down to automatically respond to emails as the account it was sent to instead of the default (which should be the first profile you had for the master account when it was created).

And PRESTO, you can control as many small businesses, freelancing personas and accompanying tailored resumes, and even a scam or two all from the comfort of one giant inbox.  

While kidding about the scams, the time you will save logging in and out or logging in multiple accounts is real.  

P. S. You just might see me guest blogging on http://kamikazeearth.blogspot.com/, so keep your eyes to the sky for the mushroom cloud of my sarcasm.