A crummy time to feel "itchy"...
Apr. 17th, 2007 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI can't seem to settle down enough to work today, and it's nearly 1:30 pm. I have about 9,000 words left for Friday noon, and I suppose part of my current problem is: the tighter the crunch, the less I want to expose myself to it.
Part of it has to do with the paper chase, where I'm going to increasing lengths to try to recover files from a couple of years ago. I know what I have to do, it just takes a long time to do it (FastMail archives messages as individual .eml files; Thunderbird will import such files... but only one at a time. I've found shareware that purports to do the trick, but it requires .NET, which requires something else, blah, blah, blah...).
In examining the files, it would seem that I ought to be able to concatenate the .eml files, prefacing each one with a blank line and a From_ line, which I recall is the format of the primitive mbox files that used to reside on my various Linux boxen (and which can be imported into T-bird without problem, as I've tested it), but there simply isn't enough time in the day... what I'm saying is that I'm pretty much reconciled to getting down to translation after this post.
* * * But first a word about current events. I am finding Jeffrey Gitomer's observations about television (basically, it's a tremendous waste of time better spent in self-improvement) to be oh, but so true, especially in times of controversy (the Imus affair) and tragedy (the murders at VT), where the best the networks have to offer is to repeat the same "news" and the same "opinions" about said news over, and over, and over again, with the kind of homogeneity one has come to expect in a gallon of whole milk.
You may as well spend the same time watching the clouds roll by; they may all look the same, but at least they don't try to make you feel bad about the world.
Cheers...
Part of it has to do with the paper chase, where I'm going to increasing lengths to try to recover files from a couple of years ago. I know what I have to do, it just takes a long time to do it (FastMail archives messages as individual .eml files; Thunderbird will import such files... but only one at a time. I've found shareware that purports to do the trick, but it requires .NET, which requires something else, blah, blah, blah...).
In examining the files, it would seem that I ought to be able to concatenate the .eml files, prefacing each one with a blank line and a From_ line, which I recall is the format of the primitive mbox files that used to reside on my various Linux boxen (and which can be imported into T-bird without problem, as I've tested it), but there simply isn't enough time in the day... what I'm saying is that I'm pretty much reconciled to getting down to translation after this post.
You may as well spend the same time watching the clouds roll by; they may all look the same, but at least they don't try to make you feel bad about the world.
Cheers...
