Mozilla Thunderbird

An important note on my converting from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird for my mail reader - Thunderbird converted all my Outlook addresses and 25 mb of archived mail absolutely flawlessly and quickly. I was impressed. (I did have 70 mb of archived mail, but most of it, I found, wasn’t all that important, so I deleted it before doing the import.)

A tip: You run the import by doing Tools/Import off the Thunderbird menu. You must have the Outlook files and Outlook installed on that PC. If you get an error saying Outlook must be the default mail client for the import to work, go to Internet Explorer, Tools/Internet Options/Prpgrams, and change Email  to Outlook. Thanks to Ben Schorr for the tip how to do this, and check out Ben’s highly useful tech blog too!

And ain’t that just like Microsoft to put the configuration setting for the default mail reader in the browser, not in the mail reader!

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You heard it here first

President Chavez on Venezuela is expected to announce Sunday that one million signatures signed for his recall are invalid. And indeed, observers noted that some people signed the petitions multiple times, children signed them, and, shades of Chicago, so did dead people.

You can assume this will lead to some, um, interesting times in Venezuela, as the US, having failed once in a coup attempt, will no doubt try again.

Meanwhile, the Bushies are making lots of growling noises at Aristide in Haiti, but seem oddly quiet about the insurgents who have been looting towns. I wonder who’s been supplying the insurgents with their guns?

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This train has left the station!

California gay weddings can go on

California’s Supreme Court has refused a request from the state’s attorney general to halt gay weddings.

And 21 gay couples marry in New Paltz NY

The country favors gay marriage. Bush, to appease the homophobes on his right flank, is asking for that constitutional amendment. Thus, he is in a very dicey spot. Good.

Meanwhile the two marshmallow Democrats in the lead for the nomination, Kerry and Edwards, managed to talk out both sides of their mouths at once on this issue.

But the two found common ground in opposing gay marriages as well as Bush’s request to make them unconstitutional.

Wow, glad to see these two titans can take such a principled, courageous stand on this.

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