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Archive for November 23rd, 2005

New Laptop

by @ Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005. Filed under tech

I have broken down and bought a new laptop. I like to do a lot of my dev work on a laptop as I like to be able to sit anywhere I want when I type code. Sometimes I sit at the kitchen table, sometimes I sit against a tree, sometimes I sit a tree, […]

Is Email Broken?

by @ Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005. Filed under tech

Very interesting read at http://www.zimbra.com/pdf/Zimbra%20Fixing%20Email%20Whitepaper.pdf Open source email/calendaring. Time to see if I can make this work on BSD… It works on OSX, perhaps there is hope. I would LOVE to see a Windows port too… Oh and the great part, it isn’t GNU…. http://www.zimbra.com/community/documentation.html Also, a very cool demo at http://www.zimbra.com/products/hosted_demo.php You don’t have […]

Evidence of why I think the US is in trouble…

by @ Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005. Filed under rants

Wal-Mart employee fired for Christmas email http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/18/happy_holidays/ In a sphincters-held-tight culture such as this, little things mean a lot, so when the giant US big box retailer Wal-Mart recently changed a greeting from “Merry Christmas!” to “Happy Holidays!” it drew complaints. And here the troubles began. The emails duly arrived, and a customer-facing rep took […]

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