I haven't been able to post much in the last week. On top of trying to get enough work done so that we can go to LA for the MLS Cup, one of the hard drives on our server had to be replaced last Friday. Since then, I've been recovering/learning about how to install the cyrus imap server for storing and postfix for receiving mail. It's been a long 3 nights to get everything back up.

Unfortunately, I didnt recover the actual mail folders so a lot of users lost mail. Luckily, I was saved by my powermac which kept a local copy of mine and my wife's mail. After turning Airport off so that it couldn't get on the network, I made 2 backups from it. One by copying the Mail folder in my Library folder. A second by highlighting all my messages and exporting to mbox format.

Tomorrow we fly out to LA to cheer on DC United in the MLS Cup.

GovTrack is a website that makes it easy for interested parties to keep tabs on legislators and bills under consideration. The range of tools they offer looks complete and I'm so far impressed by it.\ www.govtr\

Welcome to GovTrack.us, a nexus of information about the United States Congress. This site is a crossroads for data on the status of legislation, the activities of representatives, campaign contributions and other statistics, and public commentary. Best of all, you can track Congress with personalized email updates.

Thunderbird 0.9, the mail client from the Mozilla project, is now available. If you're wondering what's new in this release, Asa details two of the most useful new features available: saved searches and message grouping. Evolution, the outlook clone from Ximian, has saved searches/virtual folders too. It's a feature I didn't quite use as much as I could have but I do make the same searches pretty frequently at work, I'll have to try it again.

My favorite new feature is the "saved search folders" (formerly known as "virtual folders.") This feature allows you to perform a search on your messages and save that search as a folder. Every time you select that folder, you see the results of the search as if it was a discreet mailbox.