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Very surreal clip including a Japanese guy speaking English. (Well, trying to.)

So. Last week I got an email from the maintainer of Google Notifier, the replacement for Gmail Notifier. Gmail+Growl, my software, has as its only function to bring “new mail” popup notifications to Gmail Notifier, and Google Notifier offers (along with support for Google Calendar) “new mail” popup notifications.

Considering the above facts, I’ve spent more work on churning out a new release of Gmail+Growl this weekend than you’d think.

Presenting Gmail+Growl 2.0 - aka Gmail+Growl for Google Notifier. It’s not backwards compatible with Gmail Notifier, and Gmail+Growl 1.7 isn’t forwards compatible with Google Notifier, thus the two parallel versions. Gmail+Growl will continue to thrive and provide Growl notifications for Google Notifier, simply because it’s one thing to have a popup notification and something completely different to have Growl popup notifications.

My thanks goes to David Oster at Google for going above and beyond in informing me about the new features in Google Notifier and the effects it has on the rest of the application.

Adam Kalsey has introduced Feed Crier, an IM bot that tells you when RSS/Atom feeds get updated. I’ve beta tested for about two weeks, and it’s been a solid experience. AIM only for now but Yahoo, MSN and Jabber on the way. There’s a small fee for when you need to be reminded of four or more feeds - with many users and many feeds, bandwidth will grow quickly, and considering the service and attention to detail, it’s worth it. (No, I’m not getting kickbacks. :) )

If you’re in fact copying stuff over to an smb share hosted on a Windows XP computer, and that XP computer happens to download important updates, and these important updates are installed, and it is vital that the system is restarted for the updates to take effect, then it is imperative to understand that the vitality of some updates is clearly above any copying operations that you have commenced and that still have a long time to go in the grand scheme of things, and the computer will gladly restart with vigor, fuck your 23 GB copying operation and leave you and your brave but ultimately reasonable plan (to get stuff done and have the things needed to get the stuff done working), by the roadside.