Yellerdog

I am currently in the process of converting my family from a Windows environment to a Mac environment. We have two Macs in the house, my Macbook ('Platon') and my wife's Mac Mini ('Vesta').

My wife, for the time being, is getting all of her mail via Mac mail (mail.app). She connects via IMAP to our home Domino server, and she seems to be pretty happy with it. Here are some observations.

1. There is no way to tell mail.app which folder to use for junk mail. It just goes ahead and creates one when you establish the connection and turn on junk mail filtering. So now Pam's mail DB has more than one junk mail folder.
2. Ditto for Sent. Dumb.
3. The LDAP directory settings don't seem to be working. I think this has more to do with my Domino server than anything else.
4. The Mac client does an excellent job of rendering e-mail regardless of format - rich text, plain text, HTML. Wish I could say the same thing for Lotus Notes.
5. We have a Logitech trackball attached to the Mini (and all of our other PC's in fact). Pam finds the use of the right mouse button to be pretty straightforward. It blows my mind that Apple stubbornly stuck with a 1-button mouse for years. Sure, Jobs is brilliant, but when he is wrong, he is wrong.

I'll have some observations on the Mac 8.5 beta client later.

Well, after a several-month absence, I have returned to the blogosphere.

I shut down the original Yellerdog.net because I felt I had nothing more to say, and because my employer at the time was keeping a close eye on my blogging activities.  I felt very curbed by this, probably because there are two things I like to do on blogs: brag and complain. I could not brag without revealing company secrets, and I could not complain very much without airing dirty laundry.

Plus the blog was a pain to maintain. I was interested in communicating, but not in writing a blog template, experimenting with Blogsphere, etc. So I killed it.

But now I am back. BleedYellow makes it very easy to blog, and I find that I still do have some things to day -- about Lotus products, about politics, about religion, and the other topics that interest me.

More ti come.