Coming to Terms with the New Gmail: 5 Tips to Smooth the Way

So Gmail has decided that it’s updating its layout and there has been a loud and mighty outcry against it. Aside from complaints about primarily aesthetic things such as the replacement of handy text buttons by somewhat hard to parse icons, there are some more valid complaints about the difficulty in actually using the new Gmail. It’s hard to find things that were at your fingertips with the old layout.

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May 2008 Newsletter

Well it’s been a while since the last newsletter. As far as the website goes, I’ve upgraded the software I use to run it, and after working out a bug where all of the titles vanished, it seems to be quite stable. I’ve added a few features. One is a copy&paste bit at the bottom of each article on the off chance anyone wanted to link to it. Another is an additional search box at...
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September 2007 Newsletter

Well it has certainly been an eventful summer. Some of it has been good, some of it has been bad. On a personal front, I relocated from the Atlanta, Georgia suburbs to the Cleveland, Ohio suburbs with my son and the cats and all of our stuff. I’m trying to sell the house in Georgia now. We’re now renting a house together with Dan, and so far it’s going really well.

On the travel front,...
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About This Site

Geeky back-end details about this site…

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Seti@home

Team “Weasels for Extraterrestrial Domination”

SETI@home

This stuff is a bit outdated as I admit I haven’t run this in quite a long time, but it’s a nifty idea anyway. I have been a participant in SETI@home off and on over the years. Seti@home is a distributed CPU project that analyzes radio signals looking for extraterrestrial intelligence.
What is SETI? |...
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Distributed.net

Team “The Weasels for World Domination”

Distributed.net

Distributed Computing! This stuff is a bit outdated as I admit I haven’t run this in quite a long time, but it is still chugging away and the team exists and so on. Jump in if it’s your thing! They used to offer prize money, but really, you do it more just the coolness of being part of...
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Computer Kids

I am the mother of a wonderful little boy who will be 4 years old in a couple of weeks. Raising a child these days is such a different process than it was in my parents’ time. The biggest difference is the presence of computers. For better or for worse, computers are here. They are there. They are nearly everywhere, from the library to the school to McDonald’s to the DMV.

As fairly hardcore...
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