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Timely Quote… November 21, 2008

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Powerthirst…Yes, it’s that funny November 18, 2008

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  1. Powerthirst
  2. Powerthirst Re-Domination
  3. Gay Powerthirst

Gay Powerthirst is a spoof of #1. What a great way to start the day.

Do the wealthy care about the state of the economy? November 18, 2008

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Aare the Rich cutting back on spending???  watch this:

Interesting.. I think they’re hurting like the rest of “us”.

Yes, I have a Man Crush on Barack Obama November 4, 2008

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If you can answer Yes to this statement, you also have a man crush on Barack Obama:

If it was cold outside and Barack didn’t have a coat I’d spoon with him to keep him warm.

See, easy answer.

T-Mobile G1 – Gmail Contacts Import is Completely Broken November 1, 2008

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I spent 10 hours working to import my contacts from Outlook 2003 to Gmail so I could use my T-Mobile G1. (which only integrates with Gmail contacts)

Here’s a short list of issues I experienced while attempting to import contacts to Gmail:

Before I discovered the workaround below, I created a new contact in Gmail and exported in Google’s proprietary format, then created a new CSV with only the data Google accepts in their CSV (thinking this would definitely work…) but importing even in their format didn’t get my contacts into Gmail…

The final workaround:

  1. Export CSV from Outlook 2003
  2. Import CSV to Outlook 2007
  3. Export from 2007
  4. Import to Gmail
  5. Manually enter names to 50+ contacts out of 235

My contacts are still missing valuable information..

I still haven’t figured out what to do about my new “Suggested Contacts” hopefully Google will fix their import so I can simply remove-reimport my contacts to Gmail…

Cake Icing
To top it all off, my G1 was faulty so I’ve returned it to t-mobile’s national returns center and will be receiving a new one “pending backorder”.. so I changed my service back and have a net loss of approximately 12 hours between Gmail Contacts import and Tech Support with T-Mobile..

So far my G1 experience has been a frustrating waste of precious time. (note: this post is commemorative and therefore not a waste)

For Shame Google, For Shame.

One more thing… Google, to fix the first issue add a “MERGE Contacts” feature for real and suggested contacts. Thanks!