fixing erratic gmail behaviour in apple mail

gmail doesn’t work like a normal IMAP server. IMAP has folders, gmail has labels. gmail makes their labels act like IMAP folders, but this makes some standard IMAP functionality not work as intended. most importantly deleting emails.

gmail seems to think that all emails should be kept. regardless. so, when i delete an email via IMAP, gmail simply removes the label “Inbox”, thereby archiving the email. if i delete an email, however, i want it to be deleted and it’s captive electrons sent to digital nirvana. i don’t need to read cron emails (and their ilk) ever again. through the web-interface, i can delete my emails though.

some google-fu later, and i found a solution here.

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heights and depths of the planet

stumbled across this image. seriously cool:

Source: OurAmazingPlanet.com: Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench

my first foray into ebooks

i was browsing brent weeks’ website the other day (checking to see when the 2nd part of the black prism trilogy comes out), and i saw that he’s written a novella concerning durzo blint.

now, i loved the night angel trilogy, so i had to read this new (to me at least) offering. however, its only easily available as an ebook. i don’t own a kindle, an iPad or any other tablet. but i do have an iPhone (writing this blog post on it right now, actually). so, let’s evaluate my options to read this novella:

1. buy a kindle
2. buy a different tablet
3. buy an iPad
4. don’t read it

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summer black & whites

staying with the theme of film and black & white pictures, here are some more from my archives. this is from a film i exposed sometime in july 2010, from life around the flat.

Eva closeup

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eva’s black and white portfolio

eva needed some pictures of herself in different situations for one of her final seminars. so we took a sunday afternoon early last april and bumbled around innsbruck to find some pictures.

all of these pictures are supposed to represent some form of psychotherapeutic principle. i’m not 100% sure what they all mean, so i’m just leaving them with the titles eva gave them

Sculpture(Found this one in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris)

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