I don’t quite know what to make of this story from Autoblog about cops in Rancho Cordova, CA pulling law abiding citizens over to give them a $5 Starbucks gift card for actually following the law. On one hand, I’d be grateful for the free coffee (or what $5 actually gets me at Starbucks, which isn’t much) but on the other I’d be pissed to be pulled over for no reason. I’m one that tends to go into freak-out mode whenever dealing with law enforcement so the anxiety caused by the ordeal would probably not be negated by the act of goodwill. Oh well. Seems like a nice idea anyway.
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\\ tags: Autoblog, Opinion
Thanks to Google and my continuing love affair with Google Reader, I know exactly when I’m most active on my computer.
If you don’t use Google Reader for your newsfeeds, you should.
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There’s a useful table located on Google’s help pages that explains the relationship between Gmail and what happens when you do certain things on a local client that is hooked in to Gmail via IMAP. One example is that when an e-mail message is “flagged” in an e-mail client (in this case Apple Mail), Gmail interprets this as “starring” the item. Similarly, a message that is “deleted” from a client inbox isn’t really deleted at all—the “inbox” label is simply removed. This may seem weird but there’s a couple ways to get syncing work a little more smoothly. This tips apply to Tiger’s Mail.app but I’d imagine there are similar settings in other mail programs such as Thunderbird and Apple’s own Mail 3.0.
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