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If I Could Make This Up I'd Be Rich Murder stalks the Web! What
is this thing? OK, it serves me right. Nobody uses Emailer any more except, oh, tens of thousands of us. I like it because it works and I'm familiar with it (for years now my Emailer learning curve has been flattter than Nebraska's Interstate 80). It also ignores HTML-formatted email, which is is a good thing since I get HTML email from real human beings maybe once every year and a half. All the rest is advertising, and nothing at all shows up in the message window. This is a very good thing. [Speaking of good things, it's time for a totally gratuitous photo break.]  [OK, back to the ugly stuff.] But two days ago Emailer wouldn't work, crashed while dowloading a batch of messages and couldn't be relaunched for love or money. Every time I tried, it would go belly up. I have a backup hard drive with all this stuff on it, so I tried the second copy of Emailer. Ah, much better! Why, all I have to do is drag this one onto the first hard drive, and then -- CRASH! (Bang, tinkle)... as soon as it had downloaded all the waiting messages, it died too. You would think that's a clue, wouldn't you? But I had already forgotten the last time this happened and went through the hassle of reinstalling Emailer, moving supporting files, etc. And it still crashed! Geez. The trick, for those of you who have experienced similar episodes, is to find the "Temp Incoming" folder in the main Emailer folder and either selectively or collectively trash whatever's in there. That works. But what I want to know is, what exactly is it in there that breaks the app? We
don' need no steenking film  I don't know what causes those yellow blotches, but I like 'em. The red light wasn't that spread out, either, not to the naked eye at least, but that's how the Nikon set on automatic recorded the scene. Fine with me. If you haven't used your Mac to play with digital images, you don't know what you're missing. For that matter, I don't know what I'm missing by not throwing in a few nudie pitchers and a PayPal button for all this stuff. Hmm. My buddy Ian knows how to bait a trap, but he isn't charging either. What the hell iswrong with us? Speaking of which, did you know that you can pay a small fee now and read sites like MacSurfter without ads? Seems like everybody's doing it except Applelinks, so stay right here and support a Web site that doesn't pander to silly fads. On my own sites, I'm thinking of offering a "content-free" subscription: pay $30/year for nice clean white pages, use 'em any way you like! ["Cat just barfed and you're out of paper towels? No worries with a Zoozone sub!"] I
love this stuff Divine Wisdom of India And my overwhelming favorite (they even have a Web site): Wiccans to Host Potluck After Chakra Toning In the spirit of the time and place, I now close with a picture of my very own personal altar that I just built. No, I am not kidding. I even made some of the objects below (the bronzes and the welded steel "angel" on the left). That's just the way I am, and if you think this is weird, you should see what I have on top of my Mac. Say goodnight, JohnBoy.
Senior Applelinks editor and columnist John H. Farr invites everyone, but especially newspaper publishers with deep pockets, to read the print-formatted weekly columns posted at Emigrante Moon and offer him a contract. * I am assured this is possible with special training or a trust fund, however.
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