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Opening my Gmail spamtrap these days is like, "Here, let's test your browser's Unicode compatibility."

(Sorry if that says something horribly insulting in a language I apparently don't even have a full font-set for.)
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Including how to include your spam folder in searches, which I personally find useful for peace of mind. (Why hasn't so-and-so written me back yet? Maybe my spam folder ate them! Oh, phew, it didn't. So, erm, I guess they just think I suck then.)

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_search_my_gmail_mailbox.html
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Five more colossi slain. That's 13 down: three-quarters done, figuring in whatever nasty surprise is waiting for the last of the 16 idols to crumble. (No spoilers plz.)

"Camera Eit" is my new favorite video game term. Shmike introduced it Thursday when I was showing the game to some friends and he read aloud his own paraphrasing of on-screen camera-control instructions. "Use right analog stick to counteract Camera Eit. It will not work. But try anyway."

So tonight I shout EIT at my TV a lot. I actually enjoy shouting it more than other things I have been shouting. I am not sure if this is a horrible word in a language I do not know. Please tell me if it is.



I need to revisit the long version of our business plan, after months of avoiding it; people have started to ask about it. Will finally look at [livejournal.com profile] aspartaimee's copyedits, which will sadly end the weeks-long passive-aggressive standoff with her about it. I'll have to think of something else to replace it.

I coulda worked on the plan today but I didn't feel like writing. Attacked the bug board instead; [livejournal.com profile] daerr threw a bunch up for me last week, and tonight I picked some off and deflected some others. He will be pleasantly surprised when he next checks his mail. Also finished a major task. Felt righteous. But now, I must write tomorrow, or I will be a stooge on Monday.



Mood still thrashy. I wish I felt more comfortable writing about everything that bothered me, during those times when I am bothered. Maybe I would if I wrote them out just for myself first. I still suspect that much of it would overstep the present-if-undefined subject boundaries that lay about this journal.



I did not participate at all in NaDruWriNi sadly. Actually I have drunked a lot (but not that much) almost every night this week except for tonight. For some reason.



Saw Good Night and Good Luck last night. It was a tasty dish, but surprisingly not very filling. Very concise. Didn't have as much to say as I thought it would. I recommend it, but not in the quick-while-its-still-in-theatres sense.

I acknowledge but did not agree with one particular production decision: they appeared to use really-real CBS archival material whenever characters were screening or broadcasting footage. In one sense this was pretty cool, but unfortunately it begged the question why footage that was brand-new to the characters in the movie looked and sounded like it had suffered 50 years of decay. I was reminded of cheapo History Channel productions where guys in togas are trying to look period by wandering around Athenian ruins. X (Or rather wandering around in someone's backyard before the show transitions to stock footage of Athenian ruins... whatev.)



My gmail spamtrap has caught 4,266 spams in the last 30 days.
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The workers outside my window are talking (actually screaming at each other) in Spanish but swearing in English. They must be Firefly fans!

One thing that bothers me about Firefly: for all the Chinese being spoken, where are all the Chinese people? You can give the Niven-ish argument that it's far enough into the future that what we call races now have long since mooshed together and become largely indistinct, but that's clearly not the case here, to look at these guys. There seems to be black folk and white folk and that's about it. I dun geddit? Note I've only watched two episodes and the movie, but still.



I have been annoyed that, in order to use my business From: address, I had to send and receive mail from Apple Mail instead of gmail. This not only split my mail across two applications, but also prevented me from organizing my business mail with gmail's tools and techniques, which I've grown to like very much since I started using it in June.

But a duh-obvious idea appeared on BoingBoing yesterday: set up a rule in Mail to redirect all messages to gmail. This results in identical copies in both applications' databases, so I can use gmail to search, tag, and browse my business and non-business mail together, and then switch to Mail to compose new messages under my business identity. Good stuff.



Please let me know if you want a gmail invite. I've had 100 queued up here for I don't know how long. (Wasn't it only 50, last time I mentioned it? Yow.)

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