gPopper allows you to access your GMail mail using a standard POP3 mail program. The software runs under Windows and requires the .Net framework.
gPopper was once known as Pop Goes the GMail but the project was abandoned and open-sourced following Google’s modification of the login procedure in August. Enter Izzy. He picked [...]

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Let me get this out of the way - McDonald’s has the best fries with a qualifier. They must be freshly fried. That is really about all McDonald’s is good at. They have squeezed every bit of taste out of their other products in their quest to squeeze one more penny of [...]

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A buddy of mine recently set up a website and he was stressing that Google had not yet paid him a visit. Yahoo Slurp and MSNbot were stopping by regularly however. As we continued to talk the conversation took a turn in the direction of spider activity and the fact that none of [...]

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The origin of the spork may never be known but it stands as a marvel of engineering economy. If only I could locate silver sporks, I could save a bundle of drawer space. Even better, a spork with a serated edge. I could then eliminate knives too. As if you hadn’t [...]

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Perhaps this Wikipedia article is not the definitive work on rock, paper, scissors, but it is impressive. Enjoy.

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I grew up on these. Of course, today I know they are BAD, fat-filled gifts from the heavens. They beat toast…

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So, supper is lunch if you live in the south but if you live elsewhere, it is dinner and is often accompanied by entertainment? Then what is dinner?

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Mmmm…. Not much to say about ice cream. Go buy some, it’s summer.

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I have been doing some development work on the site over the past few days and I was trying to develop a method of detecting the usable space in readers of this websites browsers using Javascript. That was the easy part. Basically, I searched Google and pieced together the solution from three sites. [...]

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Excuse the mess, we are in the process of a redesign. Everything is now in order except that some prior posts that have pictures are messed up. The pictures have some white in them that needs to be addressed. Just pretend it’s not there until I take care of the tables.

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