The Geeky Brit

NerdyNews.com is offering an Ipod nano to the person who uses their site the most.

This is a pretty good deal, as their site only has about 50 users right now. This is the best odds for winning in a ling time. Currently, if you sign up, and then get 2 friends to sign up also, you will be in the lead.

NerdyNews.com is a digg like social bookmarking site, where the revenue from the advertising is shared with the site’s users. Thats right, you will also earn money. Anyway, check it out: nerdynews.com.

Coding Horror: Mort, Elvis, Einstein, and You:
Which coder do you think you are?
I think I am an Elvis, with Einstein tendencies.

Learning Latin:
One of my co-workers write this little piece about “dead languages”.

Whilst I do not agree that C++ will die out as fast as he thinks, I really enjoyed reading this little ditty.

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I was having an issue using Gmail’s new IMAP service in my Entourage client. I ended up finding these extremely well documented instructions on how to do this.

The only step I changed was to not change my Root folder to be “[Gmail]”. When I did this I did not see my gmail labels as IMAP folders, which is a pretty cool feature. Instead I went to the Advanced screen, and set my special folders to be the [Gmail]/folder variants, which provides me with the best of both worlds.

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