Archive for April, 2004

Nightline “Honors” the Dead

On Nightline tonite, Ted Koppel will be reading the names of all the US soldiers killed in the Iraq war. For 30 minutes, more than 700 names will be read. I’m all for it, but why don’t we follow it up? We could watch a day and a half worth of Nightline to account for the 58,000+ Vietnam dead, and then we could watch 12 days of World War 2 dead.

Somebody better get Mr. Koppel a glass of water.

But really, I don’t know what concerns me more: the fight to name the dead, or the fight to make them remain nameless.

Diseased!

Kate would like you all to know that she’s not insane when she insists on wiping down shopping carts.

florida

its not *that* big of a deal.
but i get to go to florida (pensacola)
i get to see the ocean for the first “good” time
last time was in oregon in the rain in march
and im excited to go
and that is all to bore you with now

gmail

i am now the proud owner of mark.drz@gmail.com. not exactly the greatest address, so i’ll probably be using another one when the whole thing goes public. anyway, spammers, do your worst.

thank you, mr. zawodny.

IMAP Clients Hate Me.

I like IMAP. I like being able to check my email, *all* of my email, everywhere. I loathe checking my mail though. Because I’ve yet to find a single IMAP client that does its job effectively. Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla, and yes, even the beautiful Thunderbird. I’ve been using it (Thunderbird) for about 3 days, and I’m ready to switch back to my slow (but operational) installation of Hastymail. I don’t like being told every 10 minutes that I have new mail, when in fact the mail I have is the same mail I saw 10 minutes ago. I don’t like the duplicate emails, the client forgetting that I moved them to another folder/mailbox, the incompetent and impossible to toggle threading. Any suggestions?