Friday, January 23, 2004

Demicracy

Watching Apocalypse Now Redux in surround sound, reading Robert Kuttner's America as a One Party State, in The American Prospect:

Today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself.

Micah Sifry calls it "The single most important and scary article you will rad this month."

Hot off the stove

Lessons from the Campaign Pressure Cooker is a brief report on my visit with the technical staff at the DeanForAmerica (DFA) headquarters in Vermont last weekend. It's also my latest SuitWatch newsletter. It takes a look under the lid of the pressure cooker over full heat, right before the Iowa caucuses. I'll be visiting other campaigns in the coming weeks, for a longer report in the June issue of Linux Journal.

Mail migration

Among other things, I'm trying to move mail from one client and platform to another: specifically from Eudora 6 on OS X to anything (probalby Evolution) on Linux. I'm told that the mail in Eudora is mbox, but Evolution doesn't seem to like it.

I'm not fixed on using Evolution. I'm just trying to come up with something that works. Any export/import suggestions?

Meanwhile a lot of mail seems to be faling throuth the cracks. Bear with me.

[Later...] Platform migration isn't just technical. It's like flying from one planet to another by changing ships in outer space. Helpful contextual funnies: Ubergeek Chris Hill's Switch to Linux and Switch to Mac. Funniest shit on the Web.