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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Setting up POP3 for Google Apps from GMail
So, you’ve got a few secondary GMail accounts as part of the Google Apps suite and you want a way to consolidate your email under one account. Currently, there are only 2 ways to do this with GMail: forwarding and POP3. Forwarding is the easiest way to solve this problem, but requires you to log into each of your accounts and configure them so that they forward all their emails to your primary account. It’s not a bad solution, but what happens on the off chance you change your primary address. Well, you’d have to log back in and change all of the forwarding addresses. A much better way would be to configure your primary GMail address to periodically check each of the accounts and download any mail directly. This is where POP3 comes in.
I Want You… But All Your Money Will Do Instead
The other night I was doing what I always do at home, which was sitting at a computer. You might think that the 8-9 hours at work that I spend sitting in front of a computer would be enough (it’s not). There is plenty of shit to do around the house, but none of that is as important as keeping my Google Reader unread items count below 10.
While sitting in front of this computer, my mind wandered. I suddenly had one of those “huh” moments that should have occurred to me sooner, but didn’t.
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The Faux Staff Meeting — How I got Fauxed
There I was — out with a buddy from work, driving around wasting some time after lunch. The day had been pretty good so far. I hadn’t heard a peep from my boss all day (his office is in another building a few miles away from mine). It was about 12:30, and I was looking forward to wasting a little more time, going back to my office, then quietly slipping out the door around 1:00 or 1:30.
What’s for Lunch? Why, it’s the McGangbang 2.0!
Why does the stomach growl?
I’m not asking you technically, I mean metaphorically.
I know it’s some kind of wack-ass chemical reaction. Something about juice and acid and gas (lol) and science. It’s just “nature’s way” of saying “hey, hey buddy, there is nothing in here, so you better fix it, you nutjob.” Reactions are for chemists. I have another theory.
It’s a reminder of what we really are: animals. Mammals with powerful, powerful instincts, and at 11:45 AM, those instincts are screaming only one thing at the top of their lungs:
MEAT.
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High-tech, [Undercover] Redneck
Howdy Y’all!
Let me be the first to say “I’m sorry!” It’s been way too long since I contributed to this great publication (can we call ourselves that — a publication? Might be stretching it, but screw it). I have a great group of colleagues here at the Sector, and want to say that I have not intentionally been hiding in the shadows — life has just gotten in the way of things I would otherwise enjoy doing. So without rambling on much more about the sometimes depressing and otherwise dull realities, let me say I’m glad to be back!