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Thunderbird "Purge" button extension
I have said before that Mozilla Thunderbird needs a "Purge" button equivalent to that in Outlook Express. In the time since, I have been using Thunderbird despite saying that I'd stay away until a "Purge" button is implemented. Why? I guess because it didn't seem like a Purge button was going to be implemented anytime soon (and also because of increased security and protection from OE-targeted worms and viruses).
A commentor reminded me about the existence of an extension that gives you a "Purge" button. I say "reminded" because I'd seen this extension before in the MozillaZine forums way back in the early months of this year. Somehow I forgot all about it since then and have been frantically right-clicking on each folder and selecting "Compact This folder". Which kinda sucked because that's a whole lot of clicking going on especially with multiple accounts. Now I can do the same with just 1 click (per folder).
And couple that with the Buttons! extension, it's so much easier to get rid of junk mail. 2 clicks and junk mail is purged. These buttons really should be in Thunderbird itself.
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20 "sponsored" Gmail invites to give away
Update: Sandip has 12 more invites.
Update: Sandip has given away all his invites! To date he has given away all 79 of them (from multiple Gmail accounts). Nice. Thanks Sandip for you generosity!A kind reader by the name of Sandip Bhattachary emailed me this today:
i have 20 gmail invites to give away. I actually have 7 gmail accounts myself. Receving so many invites per day. I have given this to everybody. Please post my thread in your website that I want to give away gmail invites to those who email me at the above mentioned email address. This is a serious email.
You can get him at bhattacharyas AT gmail DOT com.
Thanks Sandip.
This also signals that Gmail invites are now actually undesirable and a burden on the soul. (Just kidding, Sandip.)
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Why not to use MySQL
MySQL probably is the lowest common denominator for a RDBMS in the webhosting world - you can't leave /home without it. This blog wouldn't exist without MySQL (someday WordPress will be database-independent). Sometimes I hear people say MySQL isn't a real RDBMS, or that it lacks certain features that causes it to suck™. I work extensively with MySQL and there are times when I wish for stuff like referential integrity (available with InnoDB tables, but most hosts don't provide it) so I don't have to code constraint checks in the application. I wish for transactions (again supported by InnoDB). I wish for a PL/SQL equivalent.
Now, these guys, they've got MySQL gotchas and an anti-MySQL list listing some niggly inconsistencies and general bad behavior in MySQL. And after reading that, I'll never trust what MySQL does to my data again (silently change my data would you, mysqld?).
(Yes, the entry title is grammatically incorrect on purpose.)
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A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys - "They are generally available. Other women will tend not to steal them. They can fix things. Your parents will love them. They're smart." Hey I'm a geek ;-)
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MT Friend or Foe hack
Ever since Movable Type started to have the comments redirection feature (since version 2.66), comment authors' URLs have been redirected via a simple redirection script that prevents them from appearing directly on blog entries. This (partially) solved the problem of comment spammers because links from comments no longer benefit from backlinks that add to their PageRank. However, legitimate commentors also have their URLs redirected, which to me seems just quite a bit unfriendly.
Neil Turner has worked around this with his aptly named Friend or foe hack for MT. A simple but still neat bit of PHP (and a good example of MT's excellent template tags). If you use MT and want to "reward" your legitimate commentors, you won't want to miss this.
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