Two days ago, the first episode of NBC’s remake of the popular BBC series ‘The Office" was broadcast. As a fan of the original BBC series, I had a bad feeling about this remake. Yesterday evening, I watched the NBC pilot on my Tivo, and it turns out I was right… Disappointingly, the story was a direct rip-off of several original The Office episodes, the main difference being that a couple of the more British jokes were translated into their US equivalents....
I am currently using both Linux and Windows with my iPod. So far, I have found iTunes to be far superior to any of the Linux applications for syncing songs to my iPod, so I usually dual boot into Windows for this purpose (which isn’t all that often these days, now that I’ve got a fair amount of songs on my iPod to get me started until I’ve had a chance to clean up the ID3 tags for the rest of my MP3 collection and rip my remaining CDs)....
After changing my personal emai strategy over the weekend by switching to Gmail, I was motivated to change the way I handle email at work as well. I am currently using Ximian Evolution 1.4 (which has recently become Novell Evolution) on Linux, but I am not quite happy with it. Similar to the way OpenOffice tries (and only superficially succeeds) to emulate Microsoft Office, Evolution emulates Microsoft Outlook. I certainly does a decent job, but at least the 1....
I’ve been thinking about a better email strategy. About 8 years or so ago, when I was still using my university’s email account, I signed up for a forwarding address from Bigfoot (which at the time was still free and without any limitations). This allowed me to keep using the same email address until now, even though the actual mailbox that it was pointing to changed numerous times when I switched ISPs, domains, etc. Bigfoot introduced their own webmail service later, which provided a decent way for me to check my personal email at work, for example. However, there are several problems with this approach: ...
I just successfully switched hosting providers. Looks like everything’s up again and running happily on the new host.