Archive | August, 2006

24 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

You learn something new everyday

I picked up a new life skill today. I learnt to tie my shoelaces. That’s right, at the age of 31 and thanks to the Internet I learnt to tie my shoelaces properly. I have always wondered why my laces never seemed symmetrical and why they came undone more often than other people’s. It turns [...]

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18 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Speed up IMAP searches on Thunderbird

(Well, sort of) In my last post I wrote how I had reorganised my mail system so that it was flatter and to rely on searches/virtual folders to organise my archives. And I mentioned the biggest drawback of this method is that searches take a while especially if you use IMAP like I do. I [...]

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15 August 2006 ~ 2 Comments

Restructure of my email system

A couple of days ago I did a massive restructure of my email system. The old system was based on folders and folders nested in folders which was efficient once the emails were filed but the problem is that it took too much mental energy to do so constantly. So what happened is that a [...]

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12 August 2006 ~ 7 Comments

The Story of Class 3 of the YWCA Summer Intensive Course 2006

On Friday we (Class 3) finished the Summer Intensive Course at the YWCA with a short play. For those who don’t understand Japanese it is the true story of what happened in class 3. この劇は実話に基づいていた Arigatous go to Ed (the script-writer), Yamamoto-sensei who translated the script, and my fellow classmates Lisa, Romen, Nami, Fon, and [...]

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