Up North

I have been planning to move my blog into Drupal for quite some time now but never got around to write the scripts to transfer the data from Movable Type to Drupal.

As I mentioned here in the past we moved to Drupal for our developer pages a while back and will be using it for the Imendio mainsite in the future.

Earlier today I downloaded and installed the beta of Drupal 5.0 on my desktop machine. The new version makes a great product even better. The default theme is simply amazing and also comes with the possibility of tweaking the colors from the web ui. They have also made the administration clearer and added the possibility of having a different theme when administrating.

Can’t wait until the final version of Drupal 5.0 is out!

After looking a bit for a text based email client to get good and fast keybindings for operations like moving emails or moving to a certain folder I found the Thunderbird addon Nostalgy.

This is a truly great addon to Thunderbird as it let’s you quickly sort through your emails with a few keystrokes.

A while back, I decided to drop my email filters and have all mails go to my inbox where I manually sort them. For this I made four special folders, 1_ACTION, 2_TO_READ, 3_PENDING and X9_SPAM. These names will ensure that my three folders I visit frequently will show up before my regular archives and that the spam box ends up last in the list. With the Nostalgy plugin it also lets me do “s 1 ” to move a mail to my Actions folder and a “s 9 ” to move it to the spam folder.

It can also be setup to have a default folder for certain incoming addresses (for example, default gtk-devel-list to /Archives/GNOME/Gtk+ Devel) so that I can just click “shift-s” to move it there. Otherwise it defaults to the folder I last used so that you can quickly move several mails to the same folder.

I have decided to make it official (as if it wasn’t clear already) that I won’t be developing Blam anymore. If anyone is interested in picking it up let me know. I’ve been really happy with using Google Reader since Herzi pointed me at it.

I do have some vague plans on hacking Blam into become just a client for Google Reader though but I’m not sure if I can be bothered. I’m currently trying to focus my hacking time into one project, Loudmouth.