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“Maybellene”, “Broken” and “Slim” by Pondering Judd.

As I was telling Tim today, I’ve been avoiding working on DigiTarot 2.0 because I know it will consume my life for a period of time.  But having downloaded Google’s Mac version of the Adwords Editor, I have a renewed enthusiasm for the project.

The initial launch of DigiTarot in 2003 was accompanied by a small monetary investment in driving traffic to the site via Google Adwords.  At the time, you could only manage your ad campaign via the web interface, which could get a tad time consuming.  But with a client program, running my Google ad campaign should be much easier.

Adwords is damn good.  You can literally buy eyeballs, and the right eyeballs, at that.  Converting those eyeballs to customers is the tough part, especially in an environment where users demand tons of free services first.  That’s how it’s done though; ask Google.

I may not ever turn DigiTarot into the Google of esoterica, but I’ll have fun trying.

Outgoing mail…

Is this you?  You have a laptop that you use at work and home.  Your ISP at home only allows you to use their SMTP server (not your webhost’s or work’s).  At work, you can’t use your ISP’s SMTP server, because they will only accept SMTP mail originating from their own network.

And your email client of choice is Mozilla Thunderbird.

Ah, Thunderbird.  We love you for being free.  Your icon looks nice next to the Firefox icon.  But damnit, why do I have to MANUALLY switch my SMTP server each time I switch networks?  Sure, you allow me to add multiple SMTP servers, and even to set a “default” SMTP server.  But you always  use the first server in the list, not the default!  Switching SMTP servers so things actually work means removing all but the one server you need to use.

It takes about a full minute.  Not bad right?  A minute in the morning when I get to work.  And then another minute when I get home and want to send mail from there.  But two minutes per day times 365 days a year means I spent over 12 hours in 2006 switching my SMTP server settings in Thunderbird.

Not in 2007, babeeeee:

SmtpSelect :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software

Mozilla extensions are a great thing, allowing the community to improve Mozilla applications without bogging down core development.  And presumably, the best and most appropriate extensions will eventually make it into core.  I vote for this one.

Robert Anton Wilson, immensely loved and influential in the extended countercultural community, died yesterday. Words cannot describe RAW, but he came closer to describing the indescribable in his own writings than anyone before him.

He was the model of the post-dogmatic Individual. I never knew him, but will miss him greatly.

“You Better” and “Barely” by Leticia, and “Evil Twin” by The Lost Dimension.

Thanks to RAMROzi for the pointer to these guys. Wait till you have time, and check out the whole 5 minutes of this, in kick-back mode.