Well its been about a month and a half since I posted about my attempt to migrate my email, and I have to say that I’m pretty much done at this point. There is really only SPAM going to the old address, and the occasional notification from some software company where I asked to be notified of new releases, and never bothered to un-subscribe.
I’ve taken advantage of Gmail’s accounts, filters and labels to track all of this. Gmail is currently set to POP the old accounts and then it filters them, assigning distinct labels to email from each of these accounts. Making it easy for me to search using the different advanced search keywords: “label: is:unread” is a good one, it lets me grab all the new items that have been filtered into a given label, making the tracking very easy. It even tells me if matching items in SPAM are there without actually bringing them up on the results listing.
I’m pretty confident that I will be able to allow my old email address to slip into the digital netherworld later this year when my subscription expires, and not worry about missing anything important or, even worse, having anything show up in someone-else’s inbox if they register the same name on that service. Definitely a concern, and one that needs more attention when it comes to Identity Theft discussions.
I’ve said it before, "I need to blog more!". I’ll say it again. The biggest issue I have it seems is that no matter how simple the blog framework is, it still poses a barrier to entry for getting the post made. I have yet to find a web based editor that feels natural to me for creating or editing a post. I’ve tried a couple of client based editors, and was not ever really impressed. I know Word 2007 has the ability to publish to a blog, but it seems to be overkill. I don’t need a full up word processing package to write a post.
Right now I am giving Windows Live Writer a try. Its a lighter package than word, while having more features than many of the other packages I have tried.
This video basically closed out any possibility that I will vote Republican in the 2008 General Presidential elections. I believe, like I know many people do, that there are not many real differences between the two major political parties any more, but so long as the republican party thinks that John McCain is their ideal candidate, they will not get my vote.
This man is dishonest and delusional, there are no other words for what he is. Any presidential candidate who says, on tape, that he disagrees with what the majority of the US Population desires is unfit for office. This man needs to go back to his high-school government course and re-learn the whole “By the people, Of the people and For the people” portion of the lesson.
There is one thing that scares me more than this man though, and that is the blind army of “vote the party line” republicans out there that will blindly vote for this man simply because he wears the badge of the G.O.P. on his chest, and not because they know anything at all about either candidate and where they stand on the important issues.
I fear for the next generation, the burden that they are going to have to shoulder because of this one.