Let’s face it – people are idiots. They can’t manage a simple task and need to be reminded ever five minutes not to kill themselves with household products. My favorite’s Comet & coffeepots. The following snippet is a gem from the Gmail IMAP Client Setup, or how to get your Gmail on your phone, Outlook, whatever…
I love the entire set of warnings in the instruction set, especially since it starts with: Do NOT save deleted messages on the server. It gets fun in part three, my emphasis.
Do NOT save deleted messages to your [Gmail]/All Mail folder as some clients will try to empty this folder and ultimately fail. This can lead to delayed mail access or excessive battery consumption on a mobile device.
Posted in Lame, Photo, Rant on October 29th, 2009 by admin
"Sexy Women", provided by a simple Google Image Search
Male students at St Andrews University were asked to rate female faces for attractiveness and health.
The study found that girls with an average weight and build were ranked as being the most attractive and healthy.
Researchers said the findings sent out a strong message to young women who believe being underweight is considered to be attractive.
Hasn’t the Queen song Fat Bottom girls taught us anything? Girls like those on the left are the ones men all over the world are after; sure they are trim and slim – but they also have curves. Beyoncé, Shakira, Pamela Anderson, Angelina Jolie, Vida Guerra… these are not tiny women. I’ve been personally attracted to a few smaller women in my time, but my blood boils at the sight of a curvy woman with the right moves. So this study spells out what we already know. Duh.
It seems that over time I’ve collected over 20,000 Gmail “conversations” and until today had 1,800 unread e-mails in my inbox. Who knows how many “read” e-mails I might have had. When I first opened the account in 2004 I was very diligent when it came to cleaning the inbox up, archiving, staring, and so forth. I rarely deleted e-mails as there seems to be no reason to with Gmail (The footer reads: You are currently using 976 MB (13%) of your 7367 MB). Alas what started as a dedicated mail trap has moved on to become the catch-all mailbox. And why not? It is so easy to search and manage that there is no reason to continually archive and delete. Something had to be done though when I linked Gmail to my iPhone.
I was rarely checking e-mail, up until a year ago, as it wasn’t a source of communication for me. I was e-mailing assignments to teachers (before I graduated from the diploma mill) and getting newsletters and so forth when I started this account. Now everyone is using e-mail and I get quite a few important updates such as Facebook notifications, etc. But that was just coming in too fast, and I wasn’t good about “deleting” stuff. If you click a link an in e-mail on the iPhone you are taken right to Safari and will likely not go back an archive the message when you get the next chance to do so.
The problem I had was that I like to use the “unread” status, rather keeping things unread, to know that I need to follow up on an item (notorious one at this point is the reminder to file my tax returns!). This works for Outlook at work as you can create a search folder that displays just those unread e-mails – I don’t see a way to do that with Gmail on the iPhone (though I have an idea for how to do so with labels!).
So I needed to clean everything up. Turns out it was an easy process. I started by searching for things that seem to flood my “inbox” but that would have taken hours to find each Crate and Barrel, The Onion, Border Rewards and Facebook e-mail that was ever sent to me.
Instead I did the following:
Searched using the following: label:inbox label:read
Selected all (using the Select: All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, Unstarred shortcuts). Then continuted to select more using the “Select all conversations that match this search” option.
Hit the archive button, confirming I wanted to archive each and every one of those suckers.
Profit!
(Though you’ll notice there is an extra step in there – it can be done differently, but it wasn’t allowing me to archive every one using Select: Unread.)
Then to clean up my unread e-mails:
Starred those 10 e-mails that are sitting there as reminders.
Searched: label:inbox -is:starred
(Notice the minus sign in front of the “is:starred”, this will perform an inverse selection)
“Select all conversations that match this search”
Hit the archive button, confirming I wanted to archive each and every one of those suckers.
Profit!
Now I have 10 e-mails sitting in my inbox that I can easily scan over and the unread reminders are no longer spread out with 25 read pieces of junk in between. Very much for the win. Now I just have to keep up on it. But using the above steps I can just go back maybe once a month and perform some clean up when needed, in just a few minutes (if even a whole minute).
It’s just launched so it’s ugly and light on content. Look for more to come soon! (If you have any suggestions on how a World of Warcraft QQ site should be like, feel free to comment!).
Hello,
My name is Lithin and I QQ all the time, this is my site because I need a place 4 QQs. I wipe heroic runs and then cry that Im kicked.
I needed an Ice Strikers cloak from the elite toon Henzod so I QQd until someone he dropped group to come meet me in Dalaran. I couldnt wait another second for it!!!!
I have a foot fetish and this is my armory page: Lithin the Noble
Posted in Lame, News, Rant on May 20th, 2009 by admin
According to the GAO GPS may go dark next year;
It’s unclear whether the U.S. Air Force will be able to acquire new satellites in time to prevent disruption in GPS service for military and civilian users, according to the report.
The GAO said that the Air Force has struggled in recent years to stay within cost and scheduling constraints while building GPS satellites. So far, one satellite program has incurred cost overruns of $870 million and the launch of its first satellite has been pushed back three years to November 2009
Of course some idiot has the idea to make the service private – because that always solves the world’s problems. Maybe he would want the service managed by a Chinese firm? It’s managed by the Air Force for a reason (even without Selective Availability in play):
“Hand it over to a private firm, using ongoing accountability in both system performance and cost efficiencies as benchmarks.”
Once you hand it over to a private firm you’ll start seeing fee’s to access the GPS satellites. And they would be able to charge whatever they like since they would be the only ones with access to the GPS satellite network. Privatizing is not always a good idea. We’re already paying for the satellites through taxes, we don’t need another fee just to access them.
Ahh, Slashdot – where you better watch what you are saying because someone that knows something might respond. Like the time I accidentially told Will Wheaton to ‘fuck off’…
Khyber: S3 Virge, not regular Virge. There was a difference. S3 Virge used MeTaL. Regular Virge/VX/DX/Trio3D did not use metal. S3Virge cards did.
UncleFluffy: Sorry, I think your memory is somewhat faulty there. MeTaL was definitely Savage series only, I know because I helped write it.
The reasoning seems to be that Wintergrasp is too lag ridden now, but I don’t see that. My old machine couldn’t keep up, but that issue was on my end not theirs. A commenter on Wowinsider coined the phrase to describe the effects of this: Wintergraveyard. I think this is a horrible move, it’s going to make the battle so one sided that it won’t be fun to play anymore. The other problem is that you’ll see people begging you to go with them into Wintergrasp when they need the dailies done. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Wintergrasp and will still give it a shot each day; but the incentive is gone for the more casual players who show up even outfitted in PVE gear.
Blizzard, why are you messing with my Wintergrasp?
In an effort to better balance the amount of players that are in Wintergrasp at any given time, we are changing the daily quests in Wintergrasp to a weekly format. This will result in an increase in the honor reward given by these quests as well as additional Stone Keeper’s Shards. These quests will reset every Tuesday morning at 3:00 AM.
There are two known issues that may occur once these changes are pushed to live realms:
The quest mark will now show as gold, even though the quests are repeatable.
After the quests reset, players near the NPC quest givers may need to move out of line of sight in order for the quests to properly appear.
It’s a take that we haven’t heard before, but it somewhat makes sense. I think first though we need to get these new journalists to move to other mediums.
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we’re going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead.
When we shift our attention from “save newspapers” to “save society”, the imperative changes from “preserve the current institutions” to “do whatever works.” And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.
Someone needs to launch an in-depth investigation into the practices of Fruit of the Loom. I’m the type of guy who finds something that works and sticks with it. One of my longest mainstays have been Reebok Classics, I’ve been buying them over and over for ten years. Up until now another was Fruit of the Loom tagless white T-shirts, I like to wear them under my button down shirts, especially after I stopped wearing ties (I have some high chest hair I need to hide).
Honestly, I didn’t buy any new ones for a long time. I kept wearing the same old ones even though they lost their white-ness. But eventually I noticed that the necks had become stretched out and I decided to pick up a few packs. And another admission that I don’t want to make publicly, but some I wore without washing them. Today is one of those days. I thought I got them all but I grabbed one and put it on.
All day I’ve been pulling the back collar part up because it’s been falling, and bugging the crap out of me. Then upon closer inspection I find that the collar is wider than the ones I recently threw out. What gives? It hasn’t even gone through the wash yet, how can this be? How did the others last so long and these new ones stretch when you open the bag?
Congress, Ralph Nader, someone, please help. And don’t get me wrong, I checked them before I paid for them – they weren’t streched before I bought them.
Fruit of the Loom – I want an apology. A personal one.
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