The Monitor (.plan): June 2004

Another Bragging Post about Gmail

at 6/30/2004 03:53:00 PM

Once again I continue to brag about Gmail (gee, I wonder whats going to happen when it goes out of beta --public! Oh the Humanity!
NOOOO!!!). I present to you the Gmail welcome messege:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Gmail Team 
Date: Wed Jun 23 13:28:57 PDT 2004
Subject: Gmail is different. Here's what you need to know.
To: Knut Zedong 

First off, welcome. And thanks 
  for agreeing to help us test Gmail. By now you probably know the key ways in 
  which Gmail differs from traditional webmail services. Searching instead of 
  filing. A free gigabyte of storage. Messages displayed in context as
conversations.

So what else is new?

Gmail has many other special features that will become apparent as you use 
  your account. You'll find answers to most of your questions in our searchable 
  help section, which includes 
  a Getting Started guide. 
  You'll find information there on such topics as:

How to use address auto-complete

Setting up filters for incoming mail
Using advanced search options

You may also have noticed some text ads or related links to the right of this 
  message. They're placed there in the same way that ads are placed alongside 
  Google search results and, through our AdSense program, on content
pages across
  the web. The matching of ads to content in your Gmail messages is performed 
  entirely by computers; never by people. Because the ads and links are matched 
  to information that is of interest to you, we hope you'll find them relevant 
  and useful.

You're one of the very first people to use Gmail. Your input will help 
  determine how it evolves, so we encourage you to send your feedback,
suggestions
  and questions to us. But mostly, we hope you'll enjoy experimenting with 
  Google's approach to email. 

  Speedy Delivery, 

 The Gmail Team

p.s. You can sign in to your account any time by visiting 
http://gmail.google.com

My Quest to Learn German

at 6/29/2004 10:38:00 PM

I have undertaken the quest to conquer the German language. The process is somewhat easy since I speak english which is somewhat a germanic language. For example there are certain words that don't need a genius to know what they mean in english:

Deutsch:	English:
unter	under
uber	over
Fußball	Football (soccer)
gut	good
Guten Morgen	Good Morning
Hallo	Hello
mein	my
name	name
ist	is

Thankfully Wikibooks makes it easy to learn with its German Book. German - Wikibooks After German I might tackle Russian! Comrade!

My adventures with WINE commences

at 6/23/2004 03:29:00 PM

I was bored yesterday so I decided to play around with wine. I had before with a previous version but it had some "debian" issues. I installed the newest version and discovered that the issues were gone! I ccan now (try) to run windows apps. My first adventures were with WinMX: