Sunday, August 16, 2009

Advices on mailers and Google Groups

Advice on mailers:
  • Stop (today, not next month) using any mailer that does not allow threaded presentation of messages. Use mailers that allow both threaded and un-threaded presentations.
  • Stop (today, not next month) using any mailer that does not allow you to filter unwanted messages intuitively and quickly.
  • Use mailers that allow drag and drop, shift-clicking and control-clicking.
Advice on Google Groups:
  • If you are a member of a Google Group, you should (read MUST) have a Google account. Your Google account will make your life much easier. It allows you (after log in)
    • to read and search your Google group mail archives. Note that a corollary of this is that you do not need to store any of your group messages.
    • to change your group status. For example, you can opt for one digest message a day when you are overwhelmed by the volume of the messages, or even to opt for no mail.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

How to lie in the Internet age? Don't!

In the Internet age, almost all lies will be caught. Once a lie is recorded, it lives forever. The liar and his offspring have to live with the disgrace and notoriety - there is no relief, ever.

Let me use Ma Ying-Jeou as an example. Notwithstanding the KMT/CCP media packaging, the many news and videos showing how he lies, how he deposited public fund into his personal bank accounts, ... will live forever. Anyone, anywhere can watch and read them anytime and say: What a miserable and shameless liar! Ma and his offspring will need to live with these ever growing mountains of records detailing his atrocities. For example, this youTube video 戳破馬英九不承認特別費是公費 will live forever, played again and again. There is nothing Ma's makeup artists or KMT/CCP historians can do.