(Third and final Thunderbird post (promise!)) I had an idea; maybe if I deleted TB, then restarted it, and forced it to go offline first, THEN configured folders, THEN allowed it to connect, it might. just. work. Of course, doing so discovered some obvious bugs in TB. Sigh. I got […]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
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When you run Thunderbird, and connect to gmail, it downloads your inbox. Then it does nothing, for an hour or so. When you run Thunderbird a second or third time, OR when you first synch a single IMAP folder (I don’t know which of these two events triggered it) it […]
Thunderbird just released an update a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I’d try it out. Day 1: Thunderbird refuses to check email. See this screenshot, note the timestamps, while I’m sitting here waiting for an email that should ahve arrived a few minutes ago, desperately pressing the “get […]
Nicholas Lovell suggests it here: Think about it. It’s your baby, your dream, your idea. My own way of describing this is: Who owns the IP? (dev, initially) Who invented the IP? (dev) Who – therefore – understands *why* the IP exists, *how* it works, *why* it’s “good”? (dev) Who […]
This past few days, as people have asked me “how’s the conference going for you?”, my recurring response has been: I’m ambivalent. This is my first SXSWi; I go to 3-5 tech and media conferences a year, speak at 1-3 of them. The “party” atmosphere was fun on the first […]
…it’s not a good idea to mug someone who practices Kung Fu. Fortunately, in this case, I’d only slept 3 hours in the previous 40, and it took me long enough to realise what was happening – and I was sufficiently in-attentive – that I didn’t hit back in any […]
I’ll be in SF from Monday afternoon to Thursday evening (leaving SFO at midnight on thursday night). My iPhone is unlocked, so I’m hoping to find a cheap SIM to shove in, but otherwise it’ll be email-only. The 2010 list of GDC parties is looking pretty full (and there’s a […]