house of warwick

Posting with the WYSIWYG text editor to my Radio weblog.  MacOS 10.2.6, Mozilla 1.5a.  Probably the last post from my Powerbook.  I'm wiping it out tomorrow and writing zeros to the drive for a couple of days.

Mitch says in this post:

IMAP with its multiple Inboxes and multiple sets of mailboxes adds cognitively complexity to the user model. Maybe it can be hidden. Maybe well-designed clients only expose more complexity incrementally. Maybe there are ways to bring people, self included, gently up the learning curve. But none of that has been my experience yet.

Apple's Mail.app has hidden some of the multiple mailbox issues you mention. I have two IMAP-enabled mail accounts that appear to be one. When I click on the "IN" box, the aggregated content of box actual in-boxes appear. I can choose to view either mailbox separately or both at the same time.

I have noticed that not all IMAP servers work quite the same way. Also, Apple's Mail.app does carry a frustration: try using the contextual menu to move a message. You are presented with a scrolling contextual *submenu* that has a list of *every* mail folder on every server. I have somewhere north of fifty. Ouch.

Send Steve to BloggerCon Update

I want to put out an update about money usage for the trip. Some of the money criteria has changed for the better:

Transportation: I had originally budgeted $500 for a plane ticket, but I'm reducing it to $200. I've made the decision to drive, a 2 day trip one way. That adds an additional hotel stay into the budget; more on that later. I chose driving because it gives me the most freedom and frankly is the least expensive. It also allows my wife to go with me. She tells me she'll be happy to spend our money in the shops of Boston while I'm learning all about RSS and how it can change the world.

Lodging: I'm reducing it to $200 from $500. An old friend of mine lives in Waltham and will allow Tammy and I to stay for gratis. Bless you, Jason--you are making this trip possible. The $200 in the budget now accounts for my hotel stays on the road (one night each way).

That brings us to a new total: $500 for the conference, $200 for transportation, $200 for travel day lodging, and $200 for meals--$1100. With $105 pledged, we are now under the $1000 mark left. If Harvard and Dave will allow me to attend as a member of the press (I'm writing two articles for the Springfield Business Journal), then we can eliminate some of the conference fee.

Finally, we'll have a laptop issue. My Powerbook is (nearly) sold, so I'm going to spend some time with my local Apple dealer to aquire a Powerbook for the conference. Failing that, my Handspring Treo and Radio's mail-to-weblog feature will see me through. I'll need a better email client for the Treo, though.

To all who have kind words: encouragement is one of the best drugs you can give the human brain. Thanks!