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Looks like IMAP support has been added to GMail. More details at Google help center

According to the press release from Mozilla Foundation, there is a new e-mail initiative, which will be developed via a separate entity to be formed by Mozilla and the head of ActiveState.

I haven't posted much to this site recently. In the future I want to fix that and start publishing more often. I plan to introduce a few new topics, aside from software and finance. In particular, photography and health & fitness will be covered. Stay tuned.

I have upgraded my hosting database to MySQL 5. Let's see whether it gives me any trouble. So far it seems to be much faster, than the previous version.

Ever wondered how to convert a Word document into PDF? Or wanted to share a PowerPoint presentation with a Linux user? You can do it very easily by using PDFCreator - an open source printing driver for Windows operating systems.

Quite interesting review of Google practices, compared to Microsoft. While reading, don't forget, that it was compiled by Microsoft people.

An interesting article in The Ecomist - drug dealing analyzed just as any regular industry. More entertainment, than a real business case.

"Drunk Again on the Grand Canal" is a traditional Chinese drinking song, sung about the Grand Canal - the longest artificial canal on Earth.

On the last day of spring 2007 I attended the great party, organized by RiC and held at the City offices of Ashurst.

Have a look at the new project - Burstsort.

Quoting from Wikipedia:

Burstsort and its variants are cache-efficient algorithms for sorting strings and are faster than quicksort and radix sort for large data sets.