Buh-bye T-bird!!

I have found an all-in-one replacement for Thunderbird. I have discovered the elegance and beauty known as Kontact! With all of the necessary components, I have email, an address book, RSS feeds, a calendar, notes, to-do lists, and a journal.

After trying:

Claws-mail: I would have preferred to use it for its light weight, but it didn't have the functionality I needed.

Evolution: Extremely difficult to deal with, and somewhat unstable.

Balsa: the least functional of them all. All it does is email.

RSSOwl: Not bad, but a one trick pony. BTW, the only I've tried reader that can handle a Google Reader feed.

Liferea: Another standalone reader.

I have settle down into a somewhat hefty KDE interface, but it does everything I tried to get Thunderbird to do, which ended up making Thunderbird hefty, too. The only thing I can't do is move an RSS article from a feed into an IMAP folder, which I used to be able to do with Thunderbird.

Now I am quite happy. Let's see how long the honeymoon lasts.

Where do I go from Thunderbird?

I was sharing my firefox and thunderbird profiles between Windows Vista (yuck), Windows XP (eh), and Linux (hooray), but yesterday I ran into a missing extension in firefox and no profile in thunderbird. It turned out that ntfs is just as flawed a file system as fat32.

After rebuilding my thunderbird profile, I started running into all of the headaches that 3.0 introduced into the otherwise happy lives of thunderbird users. So, now I am on a quest to find a replacement email client and RSS reader. If I can get both and an integrated calendar, I'll be as happy as a conservative slandering Obama.

I am no longer requiring it to be cross platform, as I only boot into Vista to provide other victims with tech support and XP to play games. In the event that I have to check my email in either of those inferior OS's, I'll open firefox.

I'll let you know how it goes.

And more about Facebook.

After reading through this:

http://www.bspcn.com/2010/05/16/facebook-whats-changed-why-you-should-care/

can somebody tell me why they still use Facebook?

KFC's Double Down

The only idea worse than that "sandwich" was me ordering one. I had the grilled variant, and it was a greasy, rubbery, tasteless mass of I don't know what. KFC claims that the sandwich consists of bacon and cheese, between two pieces of chicken. I am still struggling to remember if I was able to taste any of those things.

For $5+, I was hoping for something better than that hot mess.

Apple's 1984 ad?!?!

We all know about Apple's famously aired once Super Bowl ad, depicting a computing world as George Orwell's "1984", but was that ad Steve Jobs criticism of Microsoft or his aspiration?

I have heard of Apple's free speech infringing lawsuits against Mac fansites, increasingly locked down hardware, exclusionary tactics of software, and outwardly unfriendly stance toward the open-source software community (whose productivity was apparently good enough to build their computers on top of).

Now, I could rant about the whole iPhone/Gizmodo issue, but I so sick of it, I am starting to vomit in florescent colors. What really got under my skin, was reading about Ellen DeGeneres having to apologize to Apple for a parody. WTF!

Fuck you, Steve Jobs! You are Big Brother, and I would love to take a sledge hammer and throw it in your face!

Some more Facebook goodness.

I wish I had this to post on Facebook, before I "deactivated" my account.

http://www.bspcn.com/2010/05/04/top-10-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook/