More strange and useless statistics… Families who turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier. This was regardless of family income, or education. In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. 84% of women say they have sex to get their man to help out around the house. In America, approximately […]
My Yahoo account dates back to the 1990s. For the first half of this century I still played fantasy baseball and football on Yahoo, so I was still there fairly frequently. Since I gave up fantasy sports a few years ago my time on Yahoo has been limited to logging in once in a while just to keep the account active.
My increasing frustration with Google has led me to look for alternatives for just about every Google service I was using. This process was documented on my blog. I eventually moved my blog to a new host just to get sufficient email storage to run my email on my domain account. Calendaring was my sticking point., I simply could not find a decent calendar solution. I tried running a few open source projects on my server, but they failed to work well enough in a lot of different ways. So this week I took another look at Yahoo calendar. It seems to be syncing with Thunderbird just fine, and it’s a Caldav connection so it is two way. Google still doesn’t support caldav particularly well. So I think I am a Yahoo Calendar user again.
My.Yahoo.com has also been recently updated, and it is a worthy replacement for the recently killed iGoogle, if you are into start pages. I’m not, but I just spent a few minutes updating mine to see how it looks. It’s pretty damn nice.
I’m also back to using my Yahoo email address as my subscription sign up / throwaway email address. However, I still believe it important that you not rely on a free email service as your primary email account. Remember, if you aren’t paying for it you are not the customer. You are the product.
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My Yahoo account dates back to the 1990s. For the first half of this century I still played fantasy baseball and football on Yahoo, so I was still there fairly frequently. Since I gave up fantasy sports a few years ago my time on Yahoo has been limited to logging in once in a while just to keep the account active.
My increasing frustration with Google has led me to look for alternatives for just about every Google service I was using. This process was documented on my blog. I eventually moved my blog to a new host just to get sufficient email storage to run my email on my domain account. Calendaring was my sticking point., I simply could not find a decent calendar solution. I tried running a few open source projects on my server, but they failed to work well enough in a lot of different ways. So this week I took another look at Yahoo calendar. It seems to be syncing with Thunderbird just fine, and it’s a Caldav connection so it is two way. Google still doesn’t support caldav particularly well. So I think I am a Yahoo Calendar user again.
My.Yahoo.com has also been recently updated, and it is a worthy replacement for the recently killed iGoogle, if you are into start pages. I’m not, but I just spent a few minutes updating mine to see how it looks. It’s pretty damn nice.
I’m also back to using my Yahoo email address as my subscription sign up / throwaway email address. However, I still believe it important that you not rely on a free email service as your primary email account. Remember, if you aren’t paying for it you are not the customer. You are the product.
It is now official: I was completely shut out of Virginia storm chasing during the entire months of September and October 2013. The last chance for October involved a strong surface low pressure and trailing cold front that originally looke…
I can hardly wait…
[ This content originated at Musings Over a Pint ]
Talk about being a bit uptight! Check out the number of water shutoffs this dude put in his house that is for sale in Fredericksburg.
