Cloudy Thinking

Cheah Chu Yeow wrote gExodus, a graphical Gmail import tool. It’s a slick way to move email from Thunderbird (for example) to Google Mail.

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Łukasz G. Maciak writes What does your favorite text editor say about you? [via Screencasters]

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Brad Fitzpatrick writes Thoughts on the Social Graph. I understand just enough of this to believe Brad is on to something.

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It’s Saturday and we all deserve this. Smile. [via LabNotes]

Reuters reports a couple in China tried to name their baby “@”. Sweet.

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This week I changed my email client from Thunderbird to Outlook2003.

As I adjust my workflow (I touch about 300 emails per work day) to my new mail client, I missed a Thunderbird extension that moves the current message from my inbox to a designated archive folder with a single keystroke (the letter “X”).

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The Machine Crusade blog points to a Python cheat sheet.The Machine Crusade blog

Skype is down; the outage is expected to last between 12 and 24 hours.

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Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue is resolved, you will be logged in. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Julien Lecomte writes Is there a need for a new JavaScript minifier? YUI Compressor is said to be better than the DoJo copmpressor.

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Eric Bangeman writes Cable companies are facing big bandwidth crunch. Listen up, this is a big deal.

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ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript “compression” system. It typically reduces the size of scripts by a third or more, depending on programming style.

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Windell H. Oskay writes about how to program a $2 Atmel ATtiny2313 microcontroller. He looks like this.