All Your Email Are Belong To Gmail
As written about previously, I’ve decided to let Google’s Apps For Your Domain handle all of the e-mail for my domain. What this means is that for all incoming and outgoing e-mail I’ll have them saved permanently (as permanently as 2 gigs of space allows at least) stored in GMail for my domain users and also stored on my web hosts’s IMAP server. Cool beans, yes. But what about the e-mail that I’ve been keeping on my IMAP server for the last 8+ years, eh? It sure would be nice to get all that e-mail into GMail as well so that I can take advantage of GMail’s searching.
Christmas Mousie
Merry belated Christmas wishes all! =:) One of my presents this year was this amazingly sweet Logitech VX Revolution mousie. It is really cool and uber-geeky. The spin-wheel scrolling thing just gets me all excited. =:) I have yet to get all the buttons working in Linux/X, but Button8 and Button9 (the buttons near the thumb) are recognized out of the box. What I want to get working (without having to futz around with recompiling stuff) is the back/forward mouse motions (tilting the scroll-wheel left or right). A virtual beer, oh LazyWeb, to the lucky soul to point me in the right direction! =:)
Bloody Heck, A New Addiction
As if I didn’t have enough time for all that I already have going on, I had to go and find myself a new addiction. And find it I did and quickly.
Jerry Seinfeld on Exercise
I found Jerry’s SeinLanguage book in my bookshelf a while back and I’m reading through it, here and there. This made me laugh tonight, so I thought I’d share…
Family Force 5
Cpanel Web Host and IMAP Email Filtering
I wish I would have found this very helpful post a long time ago, but such is life, I suppose. I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to do server-side filtering on my cpanel-based IMAP server for quite a while now, but hadn’t found anything official. I wrote some custom exim filters that my last web host was gracious enough to let me put in place, but that was a little hackish, since it required a good-natured web-hosting admin.
Using GMail Hosted With Your Hosted-Elsewhere Website
I fought this stupid thing for a good few days with no luck (and loss of sleep, etc.) and I finally found the solution.
Moving Moving Parts
As posted previously, it’s been a good 2 years with vortexhost.com, but I’m feeling the need to get more and possibly spend less. Now, the thing that is not negotiable with all of this is my e-mail. I can stand downtime on my website every once in a GREAT while, but if I am ever inconvenienced by e-mail problems, I’ll be looking for a new solution within the next hour.
Apple’s Exceptional Attention to Detail
My most favoritest headphones just died on me recently. They were cheapo Jensen behind-the-head headphones, but they had amazingly good sound and fit me perfectly (like comfortable, broken-in shoes). I used them with my iPod, and everything else. sniffle But alas, one side of the stereo headphone has stopped working entirely (which sort of defeats the purpose of “stereo”, doesn’t it?) and the faithful Jensen headphones now reside in a landfill in MA somewhere. So I was getting all ready to go on a conquest for new headphones. Then I realized that my iPod nano came with Apple-sanctioned mini-headphones that I’d never even opened. I tried them out today and was once again impressed with Apple’s attention to detail and quality. The headphones actually do have good sound, and has really cool little details that make it stand out. Awesome.
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Warning: a brain dump followeth: