Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka: So I wrote a piece in this week's Sunday Times about running services from your broadband-connected home computer: mainly, services that you'd otherwise have to pay for, like Webmail, online file space, and calendaring. It got a huge response, with dozens of people writing in asking how they could do this."

This is what I've been thinking as I've slowly penetrated the Unix underpinning of OS X. I've got a fixed IP DSL connection so I can SSH and FTP to my home computer.

I use multiple mail services which get downloaded to Mail.app. I can't get to old email remotely, but that tends not to be a problem. With all of the promotional html email, I need a graphic viewer. I can ssh to my ISP's server and use pine or elm to quickly write email. I don't have a compelling reason to set up a mailserver on my home system.

It's nice to live in the text world as Brentrecently pointed out. Its seamless across systems and works well over networks of any speed.  8:32:07 PM    

I've relied on Manila Express for years now. ME is a great Userland concieved tool for clipping text from web sites for use in weblogs. After becoming a member of the site and installing the tool in Windows, you simply select text on a page, right click to process through ME, and you get a window with a perfect link and quote for pasting into a weblog.

Am I lazy for not wanting to type a title, paste and create a link, then paste the quote? Those steps make it much less likely that I'll put a link here. Once out of the habit, I've neglected logging here.

Looking for a replacement.

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