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Nov20No Comments
So this hits me as a bit strange. First of all, that my fantasy teams are better than my real favorite team, the Bengals. I would have never thought before the season began that they would be so bad, and they’re not going to get any better. Heck, their offensive MVP this week was Antrel Rolle … of the Cardinals!
But maybe stranger, or maybe this is normal (some other fantasy owner can shed light on this?) is that all three of my fantasy teams share the same record 11 games into the season … 6-5. In all three cases, it has be competitive but not secured in the playoffs … one spot out (and a half a game in each) in my ESPN and CBS leagues. In the Yahoo league, I’m one game out of the lead in what might as well be our All-Pro league (even though I had to pick up Ryan Grant to have enough running backs … cursed depth), and in second of six due to points. I figure it means I’ve been a very average fantasy player, for one reason … if you’re average, you’re going to be over .500 because there is the one or two players in a big league that stop caring, and thus become obvious wins (except when I lose to the 0-9 team in the ESPN league …. grrrrr!), so the true league average record is more like .550 or .600. All in all though, I guess that isn’t bad when you figure that by me not having any Patriots in any league I do, I’m doing a good job of picking the best of the rest.
By the way. Is it a sign of sickness that in anger at my own team’s ineptitude on Sunday, I began to be happy that Anquan Boldin was earning me fantasy points?!
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Nov8
Yahoo Be Gone! GMail IMAP For The Win
Filed under: Computing & Internet, Gadgets;No CommentsI have a Yahoo E-Mail address. I even pay them nice sums of money on a yearly basis in order for me to continue to reap the benefits of said e-mail address ($20 a year to be exact, really not bad for what you get). Been using this e-mail address for upwards of seven or eight years, haven’t minded a bit.
Google just saved me an Andrew Jackson every year though, and it was easy to do!
For those who don’t know, GMail how has IMAP functionality. When you change something in the web interface, it changes everywhere. No more having to manage e-mail in seven places, one change affects all. It’s like Exchange Servers without the Microsoft aftertaste (which I don’t mind btw, but that’s for another day.)
So, I went ahead and made the plunge and decided to switch to an e-mail address for this domain through Google Apps For Your Domain. All the same GMail features, your own e-mail address (and tremendous administration tools). I can have up to 50 users if I want too, not that I’d ever need that many. And, I decided to begin to use my gmail.com account since I now have a lot of stuff tied into Google on that login.
My e-mail client of choice is also Thunderbird. It’s open source, can be portable, generally easy to move from one machine to the next, and very powerful. It integrates with GMail’s IMAP very well, but with a few tweaks, it becomes completely seamless to go from web to client, even to phone. This LifeHacker article is all over that.
I could not be more thrilled to make the change, I will even be migrating the wife to GMail this week so she can use a real e-mail client (and a real laptop) for accessing her e-mail. Well worth the effort in setting up.
Technorati Tags: Thunderbird , GMail , GMail Apps For Your Domain , Lifehacker , IMAP

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