Sunday, June 27, 2004
Gmail account for me!!!
BYOB - Bring your own booyah.
After researching sites that sell them and people who auction them I decided to do the simple thing and ask. I went to my favorite IRC channel (#gentoo on irc.freenode.org) and asked the chat room full of about 400 people if any of them had an extra invitation for gmail. Lo and behold, someone responded! A nice guy who went by the name "stuNNed" offered to send me an invite. He said he had some extras and nothing to do with them. Sweet. It pays to know where the nerds hang out (being one of them, I would know). Apparantely after using it for a while, I will get some free invites to send to whoever I wish. So if you want one email me, and if I know you or you are cool, I will send you one when I get them.
And, now, for the inevitable.
Current Music: For some reason "In the Zone" by Britney Spears is playing in my head, even though I've heard the song maybe three times 6 months ago.
Link of the Day: Gmail - If you don't know what it is, you'd better learn, cuz it's gonna eat Hotmail and Yahoo all up.
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After researching sites that sell them and people who auction them I decided to do the simple thing and ask. I went to my favorite IRC channel (#gentoo on irc.freenode.org) and asked the chat room full of about 400 people if any of them had an extra invitation for gmail. Lo and behold, someone responded! A nice guy who went by the name "stuNNed" offered to send me an invite. He said he had some extras and nothing to do with them. Sweet. It pays to know where the nerds hang out (being one of them, I would know). Apparantely after using it for a while, I will get some free invites to send to whoever I wish. So if you want one email me, and if I know you or you are cool, I will send you one when I get them.
And, now, for the inevitable.
Dear Openmail,
It's time to say goodbye. You slow peace of crap that marks 1/2 my real emails as cpSPAM and takes forever to deliver my other messages. I have had quite enough. I've moved on to bigger and better things. I've moved on to a webmail interface that doesn't require me to decipher stupid ass icons that make me feel like an archaelogist trying to decipher heiroglyphics in ancient Egypt "Now I think what they were trying to express here, is that by showing a piece of paper entering something looking like a primitive mail slot, they mean 'send the email I am composing" Honestly, I'll bet they were created by the same screwball that made my.calpoly's equally cryptic icons. Really, ITS, you can just write "Reply" and "Forward" instead of trying to make us figure out which is which by having us hover our cursor across the whole damned row of buttons just to figure out what the hell to click. Well, anyway, I know you're working on that Oracle Suite thing, and I hope that works out for you... but me, I'm going to go with this new thing. I'll remember our days of using Outlook-- I still have my .pst file backed up on cd "just in case". So long.
-Kevin
Current Music: For some reason "In the Zone" by Britney Spears is playing in my head, even though I've heard the song maybe three times 6 months ago.
Link of the Day: Gmail - If you don't know what it is, you'd better learn, cuz it's gonna eat Hotmail and Yahoo all up.
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