I have had some posts I wanted to get out today, but I have been having some problems with either my network connection on the server or the server itself. The problem must have been more than just me because my traffic drastically dropped about 11am this morning when I began having problems.

So to anyone having problems visiting the site today I am very sorry for the unavailability and I hope it will be resolved soon. When things are back to normal I will add the posts I had planned and enable the google content from earlier.

Update: The Google content has been removed for a short period of time due to server complications.

I should read more before I start posting for the day. I just found out about the Google AJAX News bar and man do I love it, and there is a nice code wizard.

I am also seeing the new (maybe) Google Book Search and it looks like a really great service. It appears they have a Google Book Bar that will show books that come up with a search of certain keywords. Like the news bar there is also a code wizard.

and for Google Video

I am also just finding out about using plus signs in GMail, and what a great feature. This was posted on Flagrant Disregard makes me wish I had kids to keep safe from spam.

I went through the code for WP-Stats and put a few sections of stats on a new page, Blog Stats

Oh and according to Pingates my blog is worth $2600. Get your checkbooks ready people

I don’t like updating blog entries so I’m starting a new one on my last post about mail clients. My buddy Josh, likes calendars a lot and I found a piece of software called Chandler, which is a major memory hog. He said he does not like gCal much and wanted a local calendar program, but I remember him saying a long time ago that he wanted the calendar online. CalDav has been in development, but I am not seeing a solution that is simple to implement or even looks fun to use. I don’t quite understand why CalDav has to be a different specification, why can’t it just use the existing WebDAV system, something Microsoft should have implemented in Outlook a long time ago (Correct me if it is not already implemented).

I like Sunbird because of the nice little to do list on the left, but the calendar is not integrated with my email and contacts which causes problems. I am finding more things in Outlook I never bothered to look for making it even harder to make me want to switch. I know a lot of people HATE Outlook, and I really question why; it runs smooth, is feature rich, and rarely crashes, which is about all I really ask for.

At the very least my laptop will have Windows and Office on it, mainly because most of my clients run Windows and I would rather dual boot or VM linux to work with the other clients than run it as the primary OS. The other reason I have to run Windows is that if I ever need to use my modem I would have to buy drivers from a company to get the Conexant modem to work at full speed.

So that pretty much ends my debating which email client to use, on linux I have still not made up my mind what I plan to use, but whatever I use it will be strictly for viewing new mail for the time being. It would be great if Microsoft write a Qt based version of Outlook for Linux, but I somehow doubt it will happen. While it would mean more users in Linux might user Office it also means those people waiting to move from Windows to Linux may make the switch.

I will save the topic for a later topic, but that must be a real struggle for a software company to determine what they should do. As a quick example if users love the contact management of Office, and they know that should they make a side project as a standalone contact suite. I would be very happy if they did or maybe just sell Outlook separately.