• Jun 20, 2004

    Czech-ed in

    Exhilarating match, Holland vs. Czech Republic. I'm (openly) rooting for the Czechs to win Euro 2004, so it was nice to see the Czechs come back 2 times from behind and winning it with a sweet tap-in. They played very well at that, and Milan Baros scoring was just sweet.

    Now, onto the quarter-finals!

  • Jun 19, 2004

    Very nice app to import your emails to Gmail

    Mark Lyon has written Mbox & Maildir to Gmail Loader, or GML, which transfers emails in an mbox file into Gmail accounts. Mbox is the format Mozilla Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird uses, so if you use something like Outlook or Outlook Express, you'd have to export your emails into Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird first.

    GML screenshot


    Works nice enough, though it had some problems with emails containing attachments - those didn't import properly and Gmail couldn't parse the email, so were as good as lost. It is still good stuff because I can now archive my existing email accounts in Gmail (I do have 1 gig of space).

    Of course, GML works by forwarding the emails from your mbox file to your Gmail account, so it neccessarily becomes a possible tool for spammers to bomb your Gmail account. Not that there aren't generic email spambots in existence already.

    Other similar applications include Pop Goes the Gmail and gmail.py. GTray also seems useful, but I can't get the website to load at the moment.

  • Jun 19, 2004

    MovableType@Gmail.Com for sale

    Message sent to the orkut MovableType community:

    hi
    MovableType@Gmail.Com For Sell (sic).

    If you want this ID in Gmail , Plz email to me . xxx@gmail.com

    Ugh. This Gmail name-squatting is getting ugly.

  • Jun 18, 2004

    Thanks for the Gmail invite

    Well, a reader was kind enough to offer me a Gmail invite gratuitously:

    Want a gmail invite? I think I’ve got one left and I’d much rather give it to someone who cares about web standards (yay) than compromise what I think is my moral integrity by whoring out something I got for free in the first place.

    You can't deny there is some truth in the bit about "whoring out" Gmail invites that seem to have been happening of late heh (heard of Gmail Swap?). Well, not everyone is whoring out their invites - some of them go to a good cause (like donations to charity or non-profit organizations).

    Anyway, I'd like to thank Luke for his kind gesture. Luke wrote about his Gmail invites as such:

    I've got 2 invites left and although free stuff (or auctioning it off for cash through ebay) is tempting, it doesn't sit right with me morally, ethically, or somethin'.

    Nice.

    Luke keeps a blog at http://blog.lukema.net/ and also an anime blog with mini-reviews of anime like Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist. Visit his website sometime.

  • Jun 18, 2004

    A for-loop? For whom?

    The Daily WTF has a very funny reader-submitted entry on for-loops (or rather, the lack of them).

    Good stuff on The Daily WTF, which has near-daily posts on programming-related things that make you say "WTF?!?". Recommended reading.

    Alex Papadimoulis, the person behind The Daily WTF, is currently giving out Gmail invites for submissions to The Daily WTF.

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