Maybe I’ll Move Everything to the PowerBook
My office desktop, a nice 2.5 GHz Dell with a GB of ram and enough disk space to qualify for re-zoning, runs Windows XP. Eudora 5.1.1.6 stopped opening my email the day before yesterday. I was out taking care of a bronchitis-suffering 7th grader who lives in my house and using WinVNC as a server and VNCThing to tunnel in and keep up with things. Somewhere in there, Eudora quit opening the messages. They download, and I can get to them with Notepad, but feh. (So I need to fix it; first step is uninstall and reinstall. I love troubleshooting on Windows. Double feh.) Eudora on Mac OS X is an ugly mess, and doesn’t support many of the contextual/right-click menu options most apps use, but it does save everything in straight text files, so it’s easy to search and I can use any text editor if I need to.
So Eudora burped on my XP machine: maybe another reason to stop using it, move it all to the PowerBook, and get religious about backing up (I’ve been much better than I used to be, and before getting bitten!). I may switch email clients too – GNUMail looks interesting, and there are many many to choose from at the Mac Orchard. (Looking for the Mac Orchard link, Google turned up a Mac Resources page at Ilene’s Machine - a quaint but useful-looking page on many aspects of the Mac.)
In the meantime, Craig Dominey has a nice blog – he’s an Atlanta-based Flashmaster, and brother to a guy I knew a little when I worked at IMAGE.
Charles at PlaybackTime links here to an edited version of last year’s State of the Union. Shows the power of editing – now what did he say? #——-