Why Mail dot com? Exactly.
Posted by Chris | Filed under Don't Even Think About It, Technology
I finally got fed up with my Mail.com address. The site had seriously slowed down to a crawl. I don’t know if it was just my account (or mine and Jen’s, since she said hers was slow as well), but I assume not. I assume that people over there are lazy and easily distracted by (potentially) pretty women.
Why do I assume this?
For one, when you first log on to mail.com, you see a login and an option to choose mail.com or mail.com beta *new*. However, this has been up since I joined and that was over a year and a half ago!!! It’s not new anymore! They haven’t gotten around to updating anything inside mail.com for the user to enjoy probably in over 2 years. Second, they have launched a new service within the past month or two: personals.mail.com. Since when does an email provider host a personals section? I think that Microsoft and Yahoo! do it, but they are more than just email providers. They are search engines, news aggregators (maybe not by definition, but hey), and more. Mail.com is just an email provider.
So, how do you get out of Mail.com? Well, the easiest thing would be to just quit logging in and let the thing die. The funnest thing to do would be to go find where these guys are and mess with their computers ala Mission Impossible - hanging from the ceilings and removing the M, N, L, O, and P keys from the keyboard, changing their monitors brightness and contrast, and then loading their own site so it will bog down their computers. As this is probably an inconvenience for most of you, and you don’t want to leave your precious emails just sitting out there all cold and lonely, you buy pop3 access and download them to Outlook, Outlook Express, or the cool open-source Mozilla Foundation project Thunderbird (get Firefox while your at it). You then move everything into the Inbox (assuming that you’ve created folders to organize your emails) and hit Send/Recieve on your desktop email program. After you have all the emails on your dekstop, the polite thing to do would be to email tech support at Mail.com and tell them that you’re leaving (how you do this is up to you). You do this so that they can take your name off of your email address and open it back up for someone else to register. In my mind, this has pros and cons.
Pros: proves that you are a geniunely nice person, helps you to sleep better at night, if enough people leave mail.com, they’ll shut it down.
Cons: you are opening up another address for another sorry sucker to get suckered in to, defiles another human by letting them use the crappy email service.
What you decide is up to you.
From now on, you can reach me at chris[at]solidroots[dot]com. And in an amazing turn of events, Jen is using her SR address (she just hasn’t posted yet). She is jen[at]solidroots[dot]com.
Einstein Quiz
Posted by Chris | Filed under Just for Fun
Apparently, Einstein was a fairly smart individual. Or, at least, that’s what I hear. Well, he supposably came up with this quiz that only 2% of the population can figure out. I tried it for about 2 mins at work, but then had to quit b/c I felt guilty doing it at work.
See if you can get it. The premise is that there are 5 guys, each a different nationality. They live next to each other in different color house. Each guy enjoys a different drink, cigar, and keeps a different pet. Your job is to see who owns the Walleye Pike.
It was a competition (which is now over) and the answer is posted if you click a link toward the bottom of the page. Right below that link is a link for another puzzle. My wife got both of them, my mom didn’t finish the Pike one and hasn’t tried the other one yet. I guess my wife is pretty dang smart. Probably outdo that Henry Einstein guy, anyway.
