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Syncing contacts within Mozilla Thunderbird

August 31st, 2008

I’m nowadays working on three different machines and thus also send emails from all of them. The problem is that I did not find any way to sync my address book in Mozilla Thunderbird across the three workstations, so every now and then I had to be creative to find that one email address. Not anymore! Synckolab came to the rescue, so far this works painlessly and only needs an IMAP folder.

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Radford Neal’s blog

August 20th, 2008

I today found the new blog of Radford Neal. While I have been reading some blogs in the machine learning /statistics community for some time, like for example Hal Daume’s blog or John Langford’s blog, I think Radford Neal’s blog has the potential of being a great alternative to these blogs for two reasons: he is a very senior person and he is more the stats guy, whereas most other blogs are probably on the machine learning side of things.

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