Published on Monday 29th October 2007 .
This is relatively old news on the internet, but Google is now offering IMAP connections to Gmail accounts. IMAP allows you to view your e-mail on the server from various IMAP-enabled mail clients, keeping it synchronized among the different clients. POP3 had been the only other way to view your Gmail account outside of the Gmail site, and that would require downloading your e-mail to a POP3 client or webmail service (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.). However, if you were to check your Gmail from multiple POP3 clients, the clients would not necessarily remain synchronized.
Lifehacker has a quick tutorial on how to setup Thunderbird to take advantage of the Gmail IMAP goodness. You will want to follow their directions to quickly make use of your Gmail tags as Thunderbird folders. Then dump the automatically created Thunderbird folders for Junk, Trash and Sent, in favor of the Gmail folders for Spam, Trash and Sent Mail, respectively. The LH article even shows you how to get Gmail keyboard control in Thunderbird using the GMailUI Thunderbird extension.
I have already started moving my e-mail archive, with messages that date back to 1999, over to Gmail from Thunderbird. Gmail’s lack of IMAP was the only thing that held me back from doing this when I dropped Outlook for Thunderbird earlier this year. Now I can have my archive wherever I check mail. I’ll have to look into Google Apps for Domains for ask-mark.com to complete my Google circle.
Published on Tuesday 23rd October 2007 .
I just carved a face into the face of my pumpkin. Pics will be available as soon as I remember to take a photo and put the memory stick into a computer. So, you may have to rely on others for pics of my pumpkin.
Published on Tuesday 23rd October 2007 .
At the Hilton Garden Inn in Hoffman Estates a new bride caused the evacuation of the entire hotel, but not before causing flood damage to six rooms on three floors. Apparently, the inebriated bride hung her wedding dress from a fire sprinkler in her hotel room, setting off the sprinkler. The Daily Herald article reports that the wedding couple, part of one of seven wedding parties booked at the hotel, disappeared shortly after the incident, and the hotel has yet to make contact with them.
Published on Thursday 18th October 2007 in Uncategorized
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I just got into LinkedIn (LI) thanks to Bert. I spent a good chunk of time putting together my profile. With an account less than twelve hours old, I have managed to make 13 connections on LI. My connections so far run the gamut from childhood friends I haven’t talked to in years to former employers and current colleagues. I even made a connection with my research adviser from IWU! I’m hoping that LI provides enough pervasiveness to be the only professional social network I need, because I do not have the time or energy to put into creating profiles and networks on four or five systems, and I don’t want to use Facebook or MySpace, either. We’ll see how my first real foray into social networking turns out. Feel free to join me, if you haven’t already.
Published on Thursday 18th October 2007 .
It appears that Dr. James Watson (half of the famed Watson and Crick pair) and his politically incorrect comments have finally caught up to him. Dr. Watson has been known to make stirring racial comments in the past. In fact, Dr. Watson made such comments during his one week visit to IWU, my alma mater, in September 2000. At the time, I thought to myself that he is free to voice his opinion. However, I found it unprofessional that he used that particular pulpit to push this agenda.
Continue reading ‘Dr. Watson’s comments catch up to him’
Published on Sunday 14th October 2007 .
I’m not sure where the members of the Illinois General Assembly have their heads, but it’s certainly not in the classroom. Why else would the General Assembly pass SB1463, a bill making a brief period of silence at the start of the school day mandatory instead of optional, and then override the veto by Gov. Rod Blagojevich? I’m not generally a fan of Blagojevich, but I think he had it correct when he vetoed the bill. The Chicago Tribune article reports that Blagojevich "had said he believes in the ‘power of prayer’ but worried the law could erode the barrier between church and state."
Continue reading ‘Silence is golden’
Published on Thursday 4th October 2007 .
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to realize what was going on inside my computer. For quite some time, I have been annoyed by the tendency for my music’s ID3 tags to get corrupted. For example, I would find long strings of DWORDs in the Comments field, or my ratings would get screwed up. This would wreak havok on my iTunes library because the music files would contain information different from the iTunes library XML file. As I would browse through my library listings, I would find the meta data changing before my eyes! I think I have found a reason for this, and the post’s punny title is a clue.
Continue reading ‘Title Bout: iTunes vs. Windows Media Player’
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