So our vacation has begun. A 3 week trip around Australia and New Zealand. My lovely wife and I can hardly believe that the time to leave has come.
The last few hours were a little frantic, they always are in our household, but we got ourselves sorted in time to make our first flight from Modesto.
We flew down to LA and where we were given a 5 hour opportunity to heighten the sense of anticipation. Then we boarded Qantas 108 to Sydney, Australia.
On Monday night a piece of as Vegas history came to an end as the New Frontier hotel was demolished to make way for a new development.
I happened to be in Las Vegas on business, and my hotel room happened to look right over the demolition site. So I got some great photos:
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.
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.
