Gmail switch

After getting invited in Gmail i messed arround with it a couple of days and decided to make it my primary e-mail.
Its simple, fast, LARGE, and cool (maybe not so mush as it was when it launched…).
So I sent 2 info e-mails to all my contacts, 100 e-mail addresses each (thats the gmail limit per message) to let my friends and colleagues know I switched.
I used to use Yahoo and Hotmail as my main e-mails as well as my provider’s and my host’s so it was a mess.
So after sending the 200 notices I began to import (redirect) the old messages from Yahoo and Hotmail.
Detailed instructions can be found here.
You will need Eudora, Hotmail Popper, Yahoo Pops and a can of soda.
500 messages later Gmail reported that I am using 2% of my 1000 mb limit…
After that you need to label all this mess, archive them all and you are done.
The catch was that e-mails in Greek language where a hit and miss situation even if I tried all the encoding options of Firefox 0.9.
But this is a known issue as it is reported in Features, Fixes, & Feedback by the Gmail devs.

Oh by the way…I have 2 Gmail invites left…
Just leave a smart commnent…

Oops…both invites are gone….

SonyEricsson K700i

k700
My new cell phone !!!
Some of the features : Camera, Video, Radio, Mp3s, phone…yes, you can call someone too ! :)
Really, sometimes I can’t resist the urge to go and buy the latest and greatest a company has to offer.
Yes I am a consuming pig. And I like it a lot !
So now you can only be jealous.

Yahoo Mail – 100 mb !!!

Today I logged in as usual in my Yahoo e-mail and I was greeted by this message :

Great news – Yahoo! Mail is new and improved!

Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo! Mail user. To ensure that Yahoo! Mail continues to be the easiest, most enjoyable way for you to stay in touch, we’ve made several great improvements to your service! In addition to all the features you currently enjoy, we’ve made these upgrades:
Streamlined interface
Makes using your mail even easier
100MB of email storage
Keep more of the things that are important to you – without worrying about bumping up against your storage limit.
Message size up to 10MB
Send monster-sized files – photos, presentations, whatever!
So thanks again for choosing Yahoo! Mail to keep in touch, and we hope you enjoy the additional services now at your fingertips. For more information, please visit our Help page.

Here is a screenshot of the new layout : New Yahoo

Now I am a little less sad for not having a gmail account.. :)

EDIT : Thanks to Vlad Bailescu who was kind enough to invite me,
I am a gmail user too…Thanks Vlad !

An Interview with Kyramas

Ladies and gentlemen,
I am proud to present you, with utter joy, today’s grand feature :
The “long awaited by the masses” interview with Kyramas himself !
So let me not keep you, buckle up and enjoy !

Scorpion: Hello Kyramas ! It’s nice to meet you at last.
Kyramas: The pleasure is all mine!
Scorpion: So please tell us, who on earth are you ?
Kyramas: Well that is simple to answer. I am Kyramas, and I am a Madman. Of course, I am not insane or crazy in the clinical definition. It is just that I find logical what others may consider as paranoid.
Scorpion: And some background ?
Kyramas: Well I was born back in 1968, on a rainy November afternoon. Maybe that is the reason I like winter so much. Kharma had decided that I should be born in Athens, Greece and here I am. For good or for bad, that is. My childhood was a nightmare and I am still living it. But I guess everybody is.
Scorpion: You sound so pessimistic… For you the glass is half empty of half full ?
Kyramas: Well to be honest I think its almost empty !
Scorpion: I see. Well are there any interests in your life ?
Kyramas: Sure. Many. I love technology and that is why I chose to study programming back in the 80s when the web was still almost unborn. I enjoyed coding in Cobol and Fortran but now I prefer to torture myself using other pain instruments.
Scorpion: Yes I see you are working with your weblog…are you a blogger ?
Kyramas: I blog therefore I am ! But seriously, this is a Diary. I blog once a week or so and you cant rely on it to get any news. Just some personal thoughts. And it’s a great way to practice and learn web designing using web standards which I love. For personal use of course. And thanks to WordPress I have an extremely easy to use blog so I spend my time on tweaking the layout.
Scorpion: But why on the web ? Do you want to be famous ?
Kyramas: Well, really, no. Even if I am pleased when visitors come by and read my inner thoughts, I do not care if I am famous. I just wanted to share the way I see the world and that’s it. Take it or leave it. And I know you will take it !
Scorpion: You are so full or yourself…
Kyramas: You are correct.
Scorpion: So what do you enjoy doing when not blogging ?
Kyramas: I really enjoy photography. I am sure you have checked my photoblog by now. I just need to find the time to upload some more photos. I also enjoy sleeping. As the old army saying goes. “Sleep more, serve less”.
Scorpion: You don’t enjoy living ?
Kyramas: Of course I do. No one wants to die. I just envy bears…sleeping through half their lives…
Scorpion: So lets lighten up a bit. Tell us some of your favorite show-biz personas ?
Kyramas: Well let’s see… Angelina Jolie is my favorite actress. She is a Goddess! I also enjoy watching Nicole Kidman. Ok, ok, I know, both are women ! But I love cinema really ! Regarding music I currently enjoy Eminem and now that we speak I have D12 in my cdrom drive. But my musical interests can vary from Wagner’s Parsifal to Joy Division’s Love Will Tear us Apart and to Madonna’s Love Profusion and back to some legendary Sinatra !
Scorpion: Interesting…and you are reading…
Kyramas: Everything is Eventual by Stephen King. Can’t wait to start the new Dark Tower book that is out. King is the King. I have a bookcase full of his books. Yes I am his fan !
Scorpion: And how about family ?
Kyramas: Not yet, even if I would like one. Yes I love children. Specially girls.
Scorpion: Nice to hear you love kids ! So you dont love only yourself ?
Kyramas: I have enough love for everyone. Dont worry !
Scorpion: No worries here. Well I just wanted to thank you for this interesting interview. I hope we get a second part real soon.
Kyramas: Yes, who knows ? Maybe soon. Maybe never.
Scorpion : Take care and enjoy life!
Kyramas: You too. If you can.

Note: Scorpion, Kyramas’ Alter Ego thanks you who read so far and hopes you had a great time reading this.

Yet another update

Well, here I am again, posting about my weblog and not posting in my weblog !

Recent changes :

Moved my Photoblog (well more of a gallery actually) from MT to Photostack.
Its great software in PHP, tableless and fast ! It will do until I manage to find a simple way of doing it in WP !
Changed the alternate stylesheet to a narrower and simpler one. (Thanks ALA for the styleswitcher code !
Cleaned up some code.

In other WP news it seems that Dave Shea at Mezzoblue is on the process of converting to WordPress

Here is an excerpt :


The site is still running Movable Type and I’ve even upgraded to 3.0. During the redesign process (well before the MT fallout [large page load, may crash browser]) I began a conversion to WordPress. It’s way easier to say “me too” after the fact, but the more I use open source the more I want to use open source. (Not to mention the convenience of having the lead developer on my iChat list)…

Read the rest here !