May 25, 2004

• áNÐ ÐÓn'T éVËn gè† me $tÁrTÉd aþoÜt THe "CrAzY TeXt" fÈÁ†urÉ!

  Ugh.
• That would have really, really come in handy many times in my life. Awesome!
• I've had the same sea monkeys on my desk here at work for about 2 months now. I'm quite proud that I haven't managed to kill them yet.
• So just for fun, Text Monkey can convert ordinary text to "Teen Text". youll b able 2 chat w/ your kidz. Or, you know, Prince. Thanks again, Text Monkey!
• I realize that this is completely over-blowing the situation, but I can't help but be creeped out by a utility the 'pre-reads' and 'cleans up' my email for me. Shades of Newspeak and CrimeThink.
• What's wrong with just highlighting the text you need before hitting reply? All the crap gets cut, and most email apps have a increase/decrease quote function to clean up the rest. Oh, yeah: insert generic PepsiBlue comment here. /wearing his cranky pants.
• Nal : And don't even get me [ REDACTED ] about the new [ REDACTED ] features! Perfect for [ REDACTED ] of State!
• I realize that this is a completely wonderful situation! I can't help but be excited by a utility that 'pre-reads' and 'cleans up' my email for me. Shades of newly-tinted joy when I speak and think! posted by Nal at 05:16PM UTC on May 25 post-read and cleaned up and
• Shit, I can't wait to try that the next time we have a pissing match here. I figure I'd be banned in, ooh, 3 or 4 seconds tops.
• The pre-read thing is an option. And there are tons of situations where this is useful. One is dealing with what each mail client does with formatting (I've been in conversations with people on yahoo, lotus and outlook, it turns into a total mess). Another is when we send out mass emails at work. We have people who have a variety of mail clients and we have to format our emails to the lowest common denominator which can be a pain in the butt ot say the least. I don't know if you poked around the features at all, but there are lots of good things in there.
• Don't want it! Sounds even nastier than Lotus Wordperfect [name is a LIE!] the spellchecker of which insisted on correcting damn near every word I typed, especially infuriating when altering such items as "mmm" to "Mom", for example. We hates it forever.
• Heh, nice trick quidnunc.
• textmonkey sounds great. there looks to be quite a few features that would come in handy here and there, when playing with preformatted (or screwed-up-formatted) text. unfortunately i have no extra cash for programs. damn. being a grad student and all, i usually just leech off of what we buy for the lab. works great for the stuff i need to do my actual research (like data collection & analysis software, etc.), but that doesn't help much for niche software like this. (i swear some day i really will register that copy of winzip. maybe.)
• and we need more programs that take the winzip attitude anyway - don't ever register, and it still works but there's a nag screen. register it once, and you're set for life. do you hear me, software makers?