My old company used Exchange Server. I used to use Outlook for mail.
My new company uses IMAP. So now I can use Thunderbird for mail (news and RSS).
No more wasted time puzzling over why filter rules suddenly stop working.
No more wasted time messing around with proprietary PST files.
Fast, flexible, powerful search capability.
All my Outlook data imported seamlessly.
Small change, massive improvement.
Up by around 13,000 due to an arbitrary inbound link from the WordPress tags page
Day 202. Technorati Rank: 173,971 (29 links from 16 sites)
However, this may be the last in the very popular 'From Zero' series for two reasons:
I may well now turn my attention to PubSub where my ranking is a much more satisfying 66,425 (InLinks 0, OutLinks 0, Entries 0) and I simply do not believe that hurtful person who told me PubSub only track a total of 66,426 blogs.
Some football fans change allegiance and cheer on other British clubs in Europe. I dont. Good bye, for another season, to the translator.
The Armstrongs is a BBC2 fly on the wall documentary about a small, family owned double glazing company in Coventry.
While this subject doesn't sound too inspiring, the program is absolutely hilarious. Last week, the husband and wife owners travelled to France in an attempt to diversify and increase dwindling sales.
Amazingly, they chose to translate their business proposition using Babelfish which may be adequate for children's homework but resulted in an unfortunate translation of 'conservatory' to 'music academy'. Consequently, the subtitles revealed that couple asked their French prospects:
'Are there a lot of music academies in France ?'
A van driver crashed into the bosses' expensive, prized Jaguar and then wisely chose to resign on the spot.
And we await with baited breath, the update on the young man who joined the company and immediately asked for time off to participate in the World Championships of Othello.