October 2007
27 posts
Google Doodles via RSS
“From time to time, Google modifies the homepage logo to honor special occasions and events celebrated around the world,” says Google. But who looks at the Google homepage? Sure, I use Gmail and Google Calendar every day, but Google searches start in the search box in Firefox and end on Google’s search results page. This bypasses the Google homepage and it means I miss out on...
Scott Heiferman on NYC vs. Silicon Valley →
“New York loves its content and it’s ‘creatives’. That’s why it didn’t make a Google, eBay, YouTube, or Facebook.”
More notes on Gmail IMAP
Following-up on this post:
Copying (instead of moving) a message to multiple IMAP folders (option-drag in Mail.app) will apply multiple labels to that message in Gmail.
Let’s say you start a message in the Gmail web interface, then save it as a Draft for later to finish. Using an IMAP client, the message will show up in [Gmail]/Drafts. You can edit and send it, but it will remain in Drafts in...
“Doing it the old way, we always used to obsess about whether other airlines...”
– Jack Foley of Aer Lingus, in “If they fix it, we will fly”
Amazon Remodel Tour →
The tabs, which influenced scads of e-commerce designs, are finally gone. (But… “[w]e’re still in our testing phase, and you may not see the new design all the time.”)
“Inconsistent bedtimes are, for all practical purposes, homemade jet lag…....”
– Ashley Merryman, “How to Get Kids to Sleep More”
“…That’s how most CEOs and top managers make decisions. Not based on...”
– Seth Godin, Permeability
“When I see a schedule measured in days, or even weeks, I know it’s not going to...”
– Joel Spolsky, Evidence Based Scheduling
“Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best...”
– Joel Spolsky, “How Hard Could It Be?: Five Easy Ways to Fail”
Notes on Gmail's IMAP support
If your IMAP client’s default folder separator is “/” (which it is in Mail.app and the iPhone’s IMAP client), then labels with /’s in them become split into nested folders. For instance, the label “Forwards/Links” becomes the folder “Forwards”, which contains the subfolder “Links”. “Links” contains all of the...
“Every child is observer, analyst, and taxonomist, building a mental life through...”
– James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, “Far Rockaway”
“In each new era, masses acquire capability of the previous one. Text leads to a...”
– Douglas Rushkoff, “Social Control as a Function of Media”, his entry in Edge 226
“You become a producer to protect your writing.”
– Tom Fontana, television producer, quoted in a profile of David Simon
“Enterprises that consider developers “commodities and low level craftsman” are...”
– Rob Walling, Questions and Answers on Leaving Management for Development
To the Would-Be Presidents: Don’t Forget the City... →
“What are the candidates’ thoughts on mass transit, pollution, homelessness, poverty, the fast-growing Medicaid burden, the future of public hospitals, housing that a working stiff can afford, not to mention roads and bridges that are falling apart?”
“When a paper mill dumps dioxin-laden wastes into a river, the paper-making...”
– Glevin Stevenson on Green Accounting, via Kottke
“Even when software lets us use our hours more productively, we simply expand the...”
– Nat Torkington, Maxed out on social software
“The conscious mind is a relatively new addition to the human operating system....”
– Scott H. Young, Four Rules to Understand What Makes People Tick
“We have to recognize as a society that 65 is an unrealistic retirement age and...”
– Malcolm Gladwell, in an interview with the Globe and Mail
“Pathology researchers consider airline food waste, which is sometimes processed...”
– David Sessions, “What’s Wrong With British Cattle?”
My menubar on Lifehacker →
Lifehacker invited OS X-using readers to send in screenshots and descriptions of the menu bar utilities they use. This is mine. (I converted a big file when taking the screenshot to get a bit of CPU activity in the graphs.)
“In most organizations, the people with the most online experience have the least...”
– An anonymous mid-level online editor, quoted in “Brain drain”
“The problem is that in a big company you’re getting bombarded by the work of...”
– Merlin Mann, commenting on “Field Reports: Guerrilla Office Tactics”
How Albany Hides Its Secrets →
NY Times editorial on something that should be a no brainer: open access to public records in the state capital. “Legislators who want to operate in secret belong in another line of work.”
“Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks....”
– Marc Andreessen, The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity