Infinite State

I gave up Outlook at last a few months ago and moved to Mozilla Thunderbird. Turns out I didn’t miss it nearly as much as I thought I would. And the IMAP support in T-bird is excellent, the whole thing remarkably stable. Best of all, the built-in Bayesian spam filtering is uncanny and effective. I didn’t miss the Outlook crashes, freezes, corruptions…

So why am I running Outlook again? Well, this is actually about how to fix Outlook when it can’t connect…
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My new iPAQ arrived, and it’s really impressive.

I haven’t read anything yet, but just followed the instructions on screen. Basically, this thing can read handwriting surprisingly well. It makes the Palm stuff feel ancient. The screen is color, crisp, bright. The sounds are warm. The response is fast. I’m impressed.
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