I called Jeff Tucker today and he told me he’d “ping” me back, meaning he’d call (or IM) me back. So now “ping” is used by technogeeks way beyond its original technical meaning. This is similar to engineers and geeks who during a conference will say, “well, let’s just discuss this later, offline”. How about this one: “Well, let’s copter down to take a closer look at this issue.”
God I hate Outlook. And spam. I spent a while today redirecting (forwarding) several email accounts to a couple of gmail address(es). I want to piggyback on its spam filtering. If you auto-forward gmail to another email address, it forwards the spam too; no help. So you have to instead download email via pop from gmail. The problem? If you hit “reply” then it tries to reply from your gmail address, not from your main, non-gmail address, even if you make the latter your “default'”. Therefore, everytime you reply to someone you either have to send it to them on a gmail address, OR you have to change your sending-account to the one you want. There apparently is no fricking way to set Outlook to automatically send from a given email account on any reply, no matter what the “to” address was. God I hate Outlook.
