Monthly Archives: April 2005

WebMail in Thunderbird

The Web-Mail extension creates a platform which other extensions use to integrate web based email accounts into Mozilla Thunderbird. POP is the only protocol supported, this means Thunderbird can only download emails. To send emails use your ISP’s SMTP server, Thunderbird will set the “Return-Path� and “From� email headers using the web account email address, too the recipient the email will appear to have come from the web base account.

Currently only Hotmail, Yahoo, and Lycos accounts are supported.

webmail.mozdev.org

P.S. - Gmail already supports POP access, so now you can check all your web-mail in a regular mail client.

Second thoughts on satellite photos

The next step: going too far?

Photo labs - who needs them?

Martha commented the other day about how photo labs must be going out of business because of digital cameras. It reminded me of a couple of conversations I’ve had recently on the subject that basically ended concluded that most people just take pictures for the sake of sharing them with friends / family, etc., and now people do that online through one of the many photo sharing services (or old school - email).

Many of the photo services also have integrated print ordering, if you really want a hardcopy, but my question would be why? I guess some people still do stuff like scrapbooking, but I’d predict that even that will probably go away as they transition to using tools like photoshop, which would allow you to do a lot more creative stuff with the pictures and still keep unedited originals.

Presto Pasta is the bomb

Kids eat free on weekends!

Browser chart

Here’s a good (up to date) browser capabilities chart, listing IE6, Firefox 1 and Opera 8.

Humor blogging

The Impulsive Buy is a WordPress blog that does humorous product reviews.

Latest update on Christian

From Martha’s blog:

So, May 9th is now the new date for Christian’s surgery. They wanted to wait til summer but we said no way! I mean these guys have nothing else to do but surgery but my kid has a childhood to participate in. He’s already been ripped off from a lot of it and we can’t wait to get him back in the game. He wants to swim and play tennis (or maybe that’s me!), and jump on the trampoline. Anyway, that was the soonest we could get. We are excited at the prospect of him really being better. Thanks, God.

New Plugin Announcement

Maybe I will enter the WP Plugin competition after all. Inspiration: Blogger Autosave

The only downside is that I can’t release it before Friday, according to the contest rules.

Taking hostages

In a clear violation of international law, two Iraqi women are arrested and a note was left behind stating “Be a man Muhammad Mukhlif and give yourself up and then we will release your sisters. Otherwise they will spend a long time in detention.” It was signed “Bandit 6″, apparently U.S. army code, possibly designating a company commander. When Reuters called a mobile phone number left on the note, an American who said he was a soldier appeared to be aware of Batawi’s accusation but declined further comment. [more here]

Fun with highway signs

VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The message was too good to be true. An electronic highway sign on Interstate 75 in Michigan told drivers: “speed limit 100 mph go go go.”

For months, the signboard in Genesee County had been alerting commuters to construction that starts this month. Someone hacked the sign, which is controlled by a computer through a subcontractor.

State highway officials say they’re investigating who changed it and how. The speed limit in the area is 70.

Bill Shreck, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Transportation, says they “weren’t amused” by the 100 mph traffic message.