Alex's Journal

[digg=http://digg.com/software/Google_is_Slow_and_Frustrating]Edit: I finally now have IMAP for my Gmail account.

Google is simply slow and frustrating when it comes to updates. I’m sure everyone who pays any sort of attention to technology news already knows that Google has introduced IMAP support for Gmail. When I first saw that, I was ecstatic. I’ve been using POP access to check my Gmail mail for quite a while. Unfortunately, because of the way Gmail is setup that means balancing my online Gmail account and my local mail application. It just bugs me if they’re out of sync with one another.

I use a local mail application (Apple’s Mail) because I have several e-mail accounts (some POP, most IMAP) that I check on a regular basis and found that to be the best and easiest solution for me. Gmail is the only POP account that I consistently check on the web, so keeping it in sync with what I have on my computer is important to me. As soon as I read about Gmail supporting IMAP, the first thing I did was get on Gmail to set it up. The problem is that the option for activating IMAP simply isn’t there. I checked Gmail’s help documents and found nothing useful. I only found instructions that I couldn’t follow because I didn’t have the appropriate options in my Gmail settings.

I checked the help documents again later and found out that they haven’t implemented the IMAP feature to all accounts yet. That’s the part I don’t understand. Google certainly should have the resources and the ability to implement features into all Gmail accounts at once. Admittedly, I don’t know exactly how it all works, but it seems to me that it shouldn’t be so difficult to flip a switch (or a lot of switches) to turn it on; or at very least make it an automated process. Give the users the option to enable IMAP. If the user enables it, but they’re account isn’t setup for it, make the setup an automated process that will setup it up on the fly. Certainly they could do that.

Google has done this with other new feature in Gmail as well. I won’t go into detail about them, but I just find it kind of frustrating. Or maybe disappointing would be a better word for this particular instance.

Edit: I finally now have IMAP for my Gmail account.

I really have nothing to say about this. You’ll just have to see it to believe it:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/10/japanese_anti_rapemugging_dres.html

[digg=http://digg.com/offbeat_news/WC_License_Plates]I’m going to first start off by saying that I have absolutely nothing against the Chinese. The second thing I’m going to say is that they have some extremely odd peculiarities.

The latest oddity appearing here in the news is over the initials “WC” being placed on license plates. Now I can understand not wanting “Water Closet” on your car, but a license plate is a license plate. It doesn’t mean anything other than that your car is registered; WC or no WC. A couple of letters on your license plate shouldn’t reflect on the owner nor make him “a laughing stock among [his] friends” which is what a man named Zhang said the letters would make hims.

I’ve seen plenty of cars in the USA which have the three letters “ASS”. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the car has an ass on it nor does it make the owner of that car an ass. It simply means those are three letters on the license plate.

Source: Drivers kick up stink about “WC” car plates – Reuters