Emails

Ponzi and I have been considering switching to a hosted Exchange provider for many months now, but I’m not taking the decision lightly. Cost is a factor, but not necessarily in exchange for reliability. Our needs aren’t complex in the grand scheme of things, but this transition needs to be smooth. 1&1 was recommended by some, RackSpace by others, Mailstreet by a few more, 4smartphone.com by Jason Dunn… but none of them have been able to answer one very important question.

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I don’t buy domains all that often, and I certainly have never been approached to sell any of ‘em in the after market. Lockergnome subscriber William L. Gotshall-Maxon is asking for advice on discovering the value of a domain:

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Stan “the Man” Mackey (Voted the best real estate agent in Seattle) has a few more bits of info for all homeowners:

I hope you are doing well and enjoying your new home. Now that you are settled in, I wanted to give you some information on how to maximize your home’s value. Property values have risen fairly dramatically over the last few years. We have become used to selling our homes for a profit. During a slower economy, though, property values may not appreciate as rapidly. Here are some suggestions on how to maximize your home’s value:

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Rich Menga had a Safari font problem in Windows:

I know you’re a busy guy, but if you or someone you know could find the answer as to why this is occurring, it’d be greatly appreciated. I have read on other blogs that people have been able to use this without any problems. I’m hoping you or someone else could find out why the blank-out’s happen.

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Dawn Douglass sent this note to Scoble and me, in the hopes that she’d receive responses from our readership. She’s seeking something more top-level than categories – but I don’t think there is such a thing? When you subscribe to a feed, you’re subscribing to a magazine – but a blog, in many ways, is better than a magazine. By limiting your subscription’s scope, you’re ruling out serindipity. Moreover, I’ve seen people promote categorized feeds and ultimately push users back to a single feed for any given site.

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Suggestions for my new friend?

Hi, my name is Gary and I first discovered you and your website when I saw a video of you on YouTube. Ever since, I’ve become a daily reader of your blog. And like you, I am very much interested in the field of technology and computers, as well as the web and internet and will continue down this field in the future.

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For Attorney research, my old friend Brett Trout wrote:

I would echo Kevin O’Keefe’s suggestion that you do a blog search. While all of the other methods might get you a great attorney, the attorney might not be great for you personally or for your particular situation.

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Ben Brady sent this update:

Just thought I’d let you know of a successful campaign to revive the television series Jericho on CBS. When news of the cancellation of Jericho was announce last month many of us fans decided to take a creative approach to let CBS know how we felt about our favorite show. We sent them NUTS… 25 TONS of nuts were delivered to CBS via USPS mail carriers.

Jericho will be re-instated for the fall season for 7 new episodes with further episodes provided the audience grows. All of the episodes are avilable online at CBS InnerTube and it will allow people who haven’t seen Jericho to ‘catch up’. What better way to grow the audience than to have the online community of Lockergnome experience the series.

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Awesome! I’m being ask to help the 2010 FIFA World Cup hosting committee!

I am Mrs. Nelisa Mazibuko, Director of Bid/Project Implementation South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup hosting committee. I got your particulars from the South Africa Export Promotion Council (SAEPC) I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it confidential because of the nature of this transaction.

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I’m gonna keep this particular email anonymous for the time being, if only because the writer agrees that Student Loan industry (INDUSTRY!?) is broken. His message gave me pause, as my father also joined the military (Marines) to help pay for his own college education. My dad’s a Vietnam vet – and while he’s proud to have served his country in such a fashion, it’s always been a touchy subject.

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I don’t know if I’d call myself a software expert, by any stretch of the imagination – but I do know good software (and a good deal) when I see it. Window Clippings just went shareware, and I started an exchange with Kenny Kerr about this move – specifically, related to the new licensing structure (what it was, how it works, etc.). After sending him the following bit of text, he responded with a link to his earlier assertion.

Read more on Free Software vs Free Trial…

This is pretty amazing, thanks to a new supporter (”JC”):

I saw your you and your wife use a mac. You mentioned in one of your videos and I also saw it in the video too. I am not sure if yours is one of the core duo or core2duo chips inside of it. If it is be sure to get xslimmer. It’s a great program. What it does it removes the old powerpc code that you don’t need from the universal binary programs. I have noticed my programs start up faster, and use less ram. Also I get back lost hard drive space. The only drawback is the program costs $11.95 but I think its worth it. Sorry to waste your time if you have heard about it before.

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About his earlier Mouse Traps post, “Blackwolf” writes in:

Dan – I have experience with glue traps and have used them off an on as needed over the years. One key point to setting up a glue trap, is to put it in a place where the mice are likely to scurry by.

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Via Mr Paul Moyo:

Please get back to me in five days if you are intrested My name is Master paul moyo, the Only son of Mr.Jabulani Samuel moyo of zimbabwe. It might be asurprise to you where I got your contact address, i got it from the South Africa information Exchange (S.A.I.E) here in Pretoria.

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Mooreyameen Mohamad, in response to Operating System Choices:

I don’t understand what is the big deal with operating systems. So Apple has Mac OS X and PCs have Windows Vista and a bunch of other stuff such as the much heralded Ubuntu… but at the end of the day it’s the applications (Google Apps?) that a computer user would / should be most concerned about, right? Internet browsing experience depends pretty much on the internet browser, which is largely independent of the OS and the bandwidth of the internet connection.

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