Megha gave me these photos tonight. They're fabulous. From Burning Man 1999 ... I can't believe how much time has passed. Featured here are Alex B, Chad B, and Sue G!

Switching to Outlook from Thunderbird was one of the biggest computer related mistakes i've ever made. It took almost an entire workday to make the transistion, and Outlook has been beset by performance problems ever since (see below). To make matters worse, returning to Thunderbird has become almost impossible as it crashes every time I try to import my email back from Outlook, which is going to force me to continue using Outlook until I have time to switch, and thus loose a huge number of archived emails. Worse still, MozBackup seems to fail to restore my older Thunderbird email because I upgraded to version 1.5. Awesome!

Confusing? Use Gmail. If you're a casual user, it looks like Gmail is the way to go. If you're like me and want an offline client, then Thunderbird is clearly still the winner, just NEVER EVER try to mess with Outlook or you'll be up the creek.

There is a "church" in Kansas led by a "Rev. Phelps" who claims that the United States is falling apart as a result of homosexuality and he aims to solve it by, and this is the really weird part, showing up with a bunch of crazed zealots at the funerals of US soldiers to mock their deaths as being punishment from God. If it weren't so utterly evil it would almost be funny for it's complete insanity. (CNN Article). My always optimistic take on it is that this kind of idiot will help to discredit the religeous right in general, and in the long run make reasonable religeous Americans come to their senses.