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October 4th, 2007:

New Email Setup

In order to get the most flexibility out of my Blackberry, I’ve decided to move my mail over to Yahoo.com since they are currently the only non-corporate email system that works in flawless two-way synchronization with the Blackberry.

So my personal account is on Yahoo while my Web account is still on the server. This way I can test both and see which I like more. If I stick with Yahoo, I’ll pay the $20/yr for Yahoo! Plus Mail to remove the ads from outgoing email and all that. Until then, you’ll have to ignore the taglines at the bottom of my personal emails.

If Yahoo! Plus Mail just included IMAP service as well, it’d be a no-brainer. Silly Yahoo, POP is for kids.

What sucks even more is that Yahoo can do IMAP. They do it for the special iPhone service. But the iPhone has some magic in it that figures out the right user name to use over IMAP, and that magic has not been made known to me.

So send lots of email to my personal account (daniel AT inklog DOT net) and my web account (jim AT revjim DOT net) so that I can really play with it.

This always happens

I got a call this morning from my Lawyer’s office again. She had two pieces of information.

1) She talked to the relocation division of my company and didn’t feel confident that my assigned relocation agent knew what she was doing. Then again, this may not be a common occurrence, so maybe she doesn’t know what she’s doing.

2) The bank that held the old lien got the release in yesterday afternoon and, at this point, we are 100% ready to close if we still want the house.

I told her “no”. I told her to start negotiations with the other lawyer to get us released from our contract. But I can’t say that my heart wasn’t heavy as I said those words.

It figures. One day after we decide we’re not waiting any more and that we’re just staying here and everything finally comes together.