IBM Reinvents e-mail

Reinventing Email :: Collaborative User Experience Group :: IBM Research

“The Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research has spent nearly a decade studying email. Not only has email become one of the most pervasive and successful collaborative tools available, it has also become a key component of IBM’s Lotus Software offerings. In many ways, email can be seen as a victim of its own success – users increasingly suffer from overload and interruptions as well as use email in a manner for which it was not intended.”

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And we’re back

After a nearly three-week hiatus, miklm.com is back online. I’m sure you’ve missed us during the absense.

First, lear got 0wned by some Romanians who also took down half of iGiles in the process. After getting iGiles back online, I didn’t even bother fixing my personal site. Now we’re back with a clean install of Debian, replacing the dated RedHat 7.0 install that I got tired of maintaining.

Next, effective today I resigned my position at iGiles. I’m taking a contract position at NABC as CTO. I’m also going to do more freelance consulting, something I’ve missed over the past couple couple of years.

At any rate, this site is now hosted at my house on a ADSL line from Butler Networks. It should be fast enough for what I’m doing here — mainly e-mail and development hosting. If it turns out to be too unreliable, I’ll outsource hosting somewhere (probably A+ Hosting).

In other news, I’m finally becoming a property owner, as I started the paperwork this week on buying the house I’ve been renting since February. I think this is a good move (and Bob gave me a good deal).

Signing off after this test transmission. Going camping tonight (Halloween), and then headed to Knoxville for the UT vs. Duke game.

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Of puppies and schoolbooks.

Monday marked the beginning of my first semester of enrollment at Martin Methodist College. Registration was Monday. After being used to a large school, this is quite a change. I miss the flexibility of scheduling that was offered at MTSU, and I’m not looking forward to 08:00 classes that I have three days a week.

In other news, I got a puppy last week. Max is a miniature pinscher. I always wanted a Doberman, but this is as close as I’ll get for a long time. Housetraining is starting to make progress, and he already understands SIT.

pictaur of teh dawg.

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Slow to catch the IMAP bandwagon

So, just tonight have I discovered why IMAP is so superior to POP3. While I’ve used it a bit before, I’ve never really had the need to get my mail on multiple machines all the same before. For the past few months I’ve needed to read @miklm.com mail from home, work, and on my laptop, so I resorted to webmail for the task. Now that I’m using Mozilla Thunderbird, I’ve discovered that IMAP will allow me to keep folders, filters, and such all the same on all accounts. I’m such an idiot for not doing this YEARS ago, when it was all the rage. Critch told me all along…

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Just the facts, ma’am.

Haven’t updated in a while. A few things of note:

· Dad is getting married tomorrow night. David and I are groomsmen, ushers, and “gophers”, it seems.

Tracey & Slain got regan booting again. Yay for old SCSI knowledge, or something.

· The 4Runner is in the shop until next week. The alternator retired, and the A/C hose had a leak too.

· And in the “Other Things That Broke” category, we have macduff, who doesn’t seem to like its USB ports anymore. Guess I’ll get a PCI USB2.0 card for it and see how that works. Maybe I need a new mobo/proc…

· If that’s not enough, we’re trying to get all the loose ends tied up for our DS3 install at iGiles. Going to fiber optic has been fairly easy on us thusfar, but only because of a lot of hard work by BellSouth and Broadwing. The real fun starts when we roll wireless, coming soon.

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