Tracking multiple email accounts

In this day and age, email addresses are like bank accounts – we’ve got more than one, and we need to keep an eye on them with varying degrees of regularity.  As a sideline of webmaster and Hotmail (Live mail) email client getting heavier on resource needs all the time. Having a small tool to monitor my many email addresses without resorting to using my work Outlook being muddied by non work stuff and visa versa for my home mail client.

To help with this I’ve started using a brilliant little application called POP Peeper, it can watch webmail like Hotmail, GMail account as well as good old fashioned POP3, SMTP etc.  Its easy to setup and then let it sit out of the way on the toolbar and flag up when something arrives in the mail box.  You can then look at the email in this little lightweight tool.

September Fuel Prices

 

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With the latest fuel prices update we can see a small downward trend, which reflects the slowing economies.

 

Some stats for the month:

Fuel Type Difference

11.4

increase from previous month (unleaded)

-0.3

increase from previous month (diesel)

-1.3

%inflation (unleaded)

-0.34

%inflation (diesel)

-1.6

7Digital power new Lost Tunes Site

It would appear that 7Digital are launching a new site called Lost Tunes that appears to concentrate on old releases, covers of older songs, and radio sessions such as those recorded by John Peel. The site offers the recordings in high quality MP3s.

Lost Tunes came to my attention as a result of an email from The Delays who have produced a covers EP which is being made exclusively available through Lost Tunes.

 

 

 

 

Tom McRae – Live Album

Tom McRae the fine English singer songwriter is releasing his first proper live album from a number of dates on the 2007 tour to promoting King Of Cards.

 

Currently the album is only available through Tom’s website here.

 

 

The track details include:

  1. Walking 2 Hawaii
  2. For The Restless
  3. A & B song
  4. Ghost Of A Shark
  5. End of the World News (Dose Me Up)
  6. Got A Suitcase, Got Regrets
  7. One Mississippi
  8. On And On
  9. Deliver Me
  10. Only Thing I Know
  11. Silent Boulevard
  12. Boy With The Bubblegun

The Power of Art when combined with Autism

I came across an tremendous video on Open Culture which showed what an autistic artist could recall and draw beautifully after a helicopter flight over Rome. The result is amazing in both scale, detail not to mention its simple beauty.

Mental illnesses are often portrayed or seen as an affliction or handicap. But as the video shows it can also be a facilitator to creativity and beauty.

 

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NowPublic article uses one my pictures

NowPublic has an article about how Maserati’s website has been hacked, and as part of the article they’ve requested to use one of my photos.

The article is here, the picture is :

Several cool Black Cab Sessions …

Brian Wilson…

 

Badly Drawn Boy …

Martha Wainwright …

Classical Music Download Site

A download site for Classical music has just gone live called Passionato offering high quality MP3s (320kbps) and FLAC recordings at what appear to be very good prices. The Guardian has a full review of the site here.  It will be interesting to see how the site goes given that classical music fans tend to viewed as snobs when it comes to the source of their music.

 

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new Ryan Adams album finally announced

Lost Highway Records have finally announced details of the next album to be called Cardinology.  Lost Highways have indicated a release date of October 28th.  A special website for the album has also been setup called http://www.cardinology.com/.

Rick Wright

Being a bit behind in my blogging the sad death of Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright to cancer is common knowledge now.  If you’d like to read more about Rick then Uncut’s obituary is a good place to start.

Personally, I hope that the discussions and speculation about a possible Pink Floyd reunion are permanently ‘put to bed’ as a Floyd without Rick isn’t really Pink Floyd in my opinion, although the nit pickers will not point out that he wasn’t a proper member of the band, but a hire gun for a considerable period during the 90s.

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