An interesting quote from an article about the legal battles surrounding government adoption of open document formats in the US:
“Microsoft sees what’s coming. Things like Word and Excel are sort of like a drug now getting ready to go generic.”
— Florida Rep. Ed Homan
Of course, no one dies if they don’t get their monthly dose of Microsoft Word. Still, the comparison is interesting.
I took the Web Design Survey and so should you!
I’m considering moving some of my mail to Gmail, but have a few concerns with changes in the way I deal with storing organizing mail.
I’m wondering about two issues in particular:
Is it possible to import a large archive of mail (about 1.5 GB currently in IMAP), organized in hierarchical folders and not lose the folder information? I understand that gmail labels are not hierarchical and don’t mind losing that aspect of categorization, but want the folders to map to Gmail labels.
As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to import mail one folder at a time (import, label, repeat). I could do this, but it would take days.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to label a message and archive it in one action? I’ve been doing this in Thunderbird with the Quickfile extension.
I’ve been using Google Reader a lot, and Gmail much less. I’m struck that the interface is similar, but different enough to be a bit disconcerting. Google Reader uses “tags” and Gmail uses “labels”. It’s all about nomenclature man!
Apple, Mozilla, and Opera have jointly proposed to the W3C HTML Working Group that they adopt WHATWG HTML 5 spec as a starting point.
The YouTube quality doesn’t quite do it justice, but Money City Maniacs by Sloan is one of my favourite music vidoes. Circa 1998.
This session of Acts of Volition Radio is party will test your musical attention span with some long songs, but will reward you with some music gratification.
Session Twenty Eight Playlist:
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Winning bidder: stevengarrity – Sweet!
One of the many secrets of a successful marriage is to have a relationship in which one partner does like black jelly beans and the other does not.
Today the community behind the Tango project re-drew over 190 icons from the Gtk toolkit behind the Gnome Linux desktop. The old icons were showing their age and they now match the style defined by the Tango project.
I participated just enough to be able to pretend to have been helpful (or maybe slightly less than that). It was fun to watch such talented and helpful people at work.
Great slides from a presentation on the many aspects of web design by Dan Cederholm
