Hm... I Hope the Feds Aren't Watching

I was just reviewing the latest spam caught by Inbox Buddy and saw that these hosers:

http://www.aryareport.com/

are sending me unsolicited emails I can't even understand.  Great -- now someone is sending me emails in what looks to be arabic.  I have no idea what they do, etc.  But it makes me wonder if I'll drop onto some dumb ass watch list sometime.

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Scheduled Feedster Maintenance Tonight

Just a quick note -- We're taking the Feedster database server to 1.5 gigs of RAM tonight from 1 am EST to 5 am EST so bear in mind that Feedster will be unavailable for some brief point in that time period.  Needless to say, I'll be doing the whole "nervous father" thing while its offline and watching carefully.

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Cool Disc Analysis Tool

I haven't had the time to look at this personally but Chris Pirillo im'd me last night about it and say "best ever" so I think it must be good.

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The Curse of Outlook

Why is it that things that try and look and act like Outlook end up being the same type of slothful, buggy pigs like Outlook itself.  I'm talking specifically about Ximian Evolution.  Now don't get me wrong -- I like this application.  Still I've seen it crash more than any other Linux application I run regularly.  It also is big enough that when my Linux box slows down, I always think "Must close Evolution".  So the questions that come to mind are:

1. What's up with that ?
2. Will Chandler suffer from it ?
3. Is this just the natural end point for products that try and emulate Microsoft Apps ?

Please direct flames about my criticism of an open source app to /dev/null.  Constructive feedback is completely welcome. 

Note: System was 512 megs of ram on a P 733 w/ RH 9.  That to me feels like a hefty box.  Maybe I'm wrong.  The only others were gaim, gnome terminal, gedit and FireBird.  We're not talking a lot of crap here although I will confess to a hefty amount of FireBird tabs.

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Vonage: Damn Good But Don't Get Rid of that Land Line Yet

I recently signed up for Vonage since I was tired of the long distance bills that are AT&T.  And I have to say that overall I am mightily impressed.  It arrived in like 3 days, worked the very 1st time I plugged it in (a high tech product that actually works out of the box? -- go figure).  About the only issue I have is that some phone #s just can't be dialed from it.  For example whenever I dial my friend Heidi, I get a fast busy signal and I can never get thru.  No clue why.  No time to call tech support either so I'll just stick with it and keep my landline just not use it for outgoing calls. 

Definite thanks to NoSuch and Joi Ito whose reviews made the buying decision pretty damn painless.

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