prolific.org » e mail http://prolific.org ISSN 1568-2218 | Established 1999 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:08:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 No, I have something against thick skulls http://prolific.org/2005/01/26/no-i-have-something-against-thick-skulls/ http://prolific.org/2005/01/26/no-i-have-something-against-thick-skulls/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:57:27 +0000 Caroline http://vonbpress.com/2005/01/26/no-i-have-something-against-thick-skulls/ Here, in a nutshell, the reason why self linking on community weblogs is not allowed. From e-mail:

“I don’t understand the no self link rule. Do you have something against my sites?”

]]> http://prolific.org/2005/01/26/no-i-have-something-against-thick-skulls/feed/ 0 Hoax ‘missing parents’ e-mail? http://prolific.org/2005/01/05/hoax-missing-parents-e-mail/ http://prolific.org/2005/01/05/hoax-missing-parents-e-mail/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:19:40 +0000 Caroline http://vonbpress.com/2005/01/05/hoax-missing-parents-e-mail/ Continue reading →]]> Did anyone else receive an e-mail with a picture of a boy attached and the message ‘A BOY MISSING HIS PARENTS B’CAUSE TSUNAMI’, asking people to forward it to as many people as they can? Typical hoax stuff if you ask me. I think it’s a picture of the (mosquito bitten) Swedish boy who was reunited with his dad in a Thai hospital in the first few days after the Tsunami struck.

eight comments:

The lowlifes are crawling out of the woodwork.
Lars – 06 January 2005 – 00:15

@lars: waarvan akte!
zutman (link) – 07 January 2005 – 20:04

Got it half an hour ago. The “got this from a reliable source” phrase made me sus…
Anne – 08 January 2005 – 06:58

but does anyone know if this is a hoax for absolute sure? i can’t find any other hoax info on the web. i’m going to send it in to CNN and let them expose it. shrug may as well put the media to work, right?
mao – 10 January 2005 – 18:53

found it. it’s real. it’s done.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl..

mao – 10 January 2005 – 18:58

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]]> http://prolific.org/2004/12/07/the-great-trek/feed/ 6 London is the drink for me http://prolific.org/2004/12/02/london-is-the-drink-for-me/ http://prolific.org/2004/12/02/london-is-the-drink-for-me/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:08:10 +0000 Caroline http://vonbpress.com/2004/12/02/london-is-the-drink-for-me/ Continue reading →]]> Spending the weekend in London, looking at art and hopefully doing very little else but be with friends and use my camera. Oh, and someone stop me from using my phone to download e-mail. That 330 euro bill came out of bloody nowhere!

]]> http://prolific.org/2004/12/02/london-is-the-drink-for-me/feed/ 3 Mac user http://prolific.org/2004/06/14/mac-user/ http://prolific.org/2004/06/14/mac-user/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:15:05 +0000 Caroline http://vonbpress.com/2004/06/14/mac-user/ Continue reading →]]> Hey. Are you in the middle of it?

No.

Are you at work?

No, at home.

Can you… um… I have a computer question. Are you an iBook person?

// you KNOW I don’t have an iBook //

I don’t have an iBook, but I’m sure I can help you. I’ve helped you before, remember?

Yeah. Well, you see, my mail is all fucked up. You know new mail always comes in at the top? Well now it’s all messed up and it comes in somewhere in the middle and I can’t find it.

Sounds like it’s sorting on subject, not on date.

// Other phone rings //

Hello? HELLO? Well FUCK OFF so.

// Doorbell rings //

Now the doorbell rings. I’m fucking on the phone. This is my life. This is my life for the last month. Hello? How’ye. I’m on the phone. Yeah, um…

Your mail.

Yeah, um… it’s messed up.

Are you near your computer?

I was opening the door! [...] I’ll start it up. It’s warming up now. Anyway, while it’s doing that…

(30 minute convo)

OK, so take it easy…

But what about your mail?

Huh?

I was supposed to help you with your mail.

Oh… yeah, um…

What e-mail programme do you use? Entourage?

No. Um… I don’t know. Just…

OK, look at your mail. See the column with the date? Go right to the top. What’s there?

Um… there’s a little light to see how much battery you have and…

No, in your mail programme. Your mail is divided into columns. What’s at the top of your date column? Can you click that?

I don’t understand.

Riiight…

I’m sorry, I am not very good at this.

Etc.

]]> http://prolific.org/2004/06/14/mac-user/feed/ 4 MT 3.0: what’s going on? http://prolific.org/2004/05/15/mt-30-whats-going-on/ http://prolific.org/2004/05/15/mt-30-whats-going-on/#comments Sat, 15 May 2004 14:18:22 +0000 Caroline http://vonbpress.com/2004/05/15/mt-30-whats-going-on/ Continue reading →]]> This combination of articles explains the MT 3.0 release and its perceived problems very well:

  • PC World’s ‘Blog Development Tool Ships‘ does a better job of expositioning the details of this new release than any of 6A’s own announcements.
  • Many to Many’s MT 3.0 Backlash and Trackbacks lists people’s concerns without the drama.

    Meanwhile, as an MT 3.0 beta tester (which I wasn’t!) I received an e-mail from 6A which tells me: “Based on feedback we’ve received, we’ve also made some changes changes to the licenses that will be posted later tonight.”

    Those changes can now be viewed on 6A’s website, including this one: “Coming Soon: Personal Edition Add-On will allow you to add 1 weblog and 1 author to your Personal Edition license for $9.95.”

    I like that one a lot. Other changes just about cover most of people’s concerns, I should think. The ones I had at least. From the site:

  • Author counts are based on “active” authors, those that have logged in within the last 90 days
  • Weblog counts are based on “active” weblogs, those that have had posts created within the last 90 days
  • One site at one URL counts as a weblog for your license, even if it is made up of more than one weblog in the software

    And elsewhere:

  • The single CPU usage statement was not intended to be in the license. It has been struck from the license

    Good response from 6A, I think. I hope the company’s image recovers from their PR faux pas. They really don’t deserve the bad rap. They are a family business growing up in public. We are collectively experiencing their growing pains.

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    I keep clicking my right hand mouse button when I’m hovering over the e-mail subject lines in the inbox, and I expect there to be a menu with Gmail specific options. But there isn’t. You just get the standard Windows right hand mouse button menu. But something about the GUI is triggering this response in me.

    Anyone?

    ]]>     http://prolific.org/2004/04/20/gmail-revisited-gui-trigger-issue/feed/ 1     Reply to Right To Reply http://prolific.org/2004/04/18/reply-to-right-to-reply/ http://prolific.org/2004/04/18/reply-to-right-to-reply/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:59:43 +0000 Caroline http://vonbpress.com/2004/04/18/reply-to-right-to-reply/ Continue reading →]]> Commenting at TwoEyes.org is broken, so I am answering here.

    I’m not sure when TwoEyes got online, but when I first did, a decade ago, the quote and reply style of answering e-mail was the norm. If you didn’t do it you were kindly told you were breaking netiquette. Or you were ridiculed for being a newbie.

    It has taken me a while to accept that this practice is no longer the norm.

    ]]>     http://prolific.org/2004/04/18/reply-to-right-to-reply/feed/ 1     And ‘cvodb’ was too short… http://prolific.org/2004/04/12/and-cvodb-was-too-short/ http://prolific.org/2004/04/12/and-cvodb-was-too-short/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:27:55 +0000 Caroline http://vonbpress.com/2004/04/12/and-cvodb-was-too-short/ Continue reading →]]> ‘Caroline’ was already taken (grrr aarrgh), but I’ve gots myself a gmail account to play with. So um, send me stuff – if you can make out the address in the screenshot.

    gmail-screenshot.gif

  • The welcome message says ‘Gmail is different.’ It is and it takes getting used to.
  • The advertising is inobtrusive. It’s fast and smooth. No image bloat. Yay.
  • Threaded e-mail is cool. See Matt for for info about that.
  • I like the nerdiness of the keyboard shortcuts (j & k for previous and next conversation). I have never been keen on web-based e-mail and generally check my mail using telnet & mutt or pine whenever I’m abroad. These shortcuts are a nice throwback. I’m sure they’re bewildering to a lot of people.
  • My first completely selfish gripe: It would be nice if they reduced the username limit from six to five characters. So I can get ‘cvodb’ to work. I can’t help having such a lousy name. ‘cvoosten’ just doesn’t do it for me.
  • Can I import my old mail? Not yet. Export, too would be groovy.
  • I’ve forwarded one of my e-mail accounts to gmail and it’s not recognising the vast acres of spam coming in through it. Could be the forward.
  • Something about that blue screams ‘Yahoo’. Not good.
  • On shorter messages, the ads run over the bottom nav bar.
  • Privacy stuff… e-mail was never particularly private, was it?
  • It would be great if there was a popmail feature where you can read your e-mail on other accounts, but I’m guessing that’s not the point of gmail.
  • No draft posts, yet.
  • feature request: ascending AND descending threading (for mad webloggers who have got used to reading stuff the wrong way around)
  • There’s an ‘expand all’ link. Would be great if it did ‘collapse all’ too.
    ]]> http://prolific.org/2004/04/12/and-cvodb-was-too-short/feed/ 4 Get fucked, join Breedster http://prolific.org/2004/04/04/get-fucked-join-breedster/ http://prolific.org/2004/04/04/get-fucked-join-breedster/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2004 18:51:27 +0000 Caroline http://vonbpress.com/2004/04/04/get-fucked-join-breedster/ Continue reading →]]> Anyone who wants in on Breedster drop me a line. I’m too embarrassed sending out these e-mail invites to friends and hesitant to subject them to involuntary mating on a regular basis.

    I’ve been considering deleting my profile because the whole birth/breed thing is putting me off. Never was keen on role-playing. I don’t do online what I wouldn’t do in person. Happy to be dull, dear readers.

    Anyway, I have at least three eggs to share. Lemme know.

    Sorry, STD.

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