Coredump

Kinda defeats the purpose of labels instead of folders. And, oh, where are the threads?

From the FAQ:

Why aren’t my messages threaded?

Like POP, IMAP treats messages individually and not as a threaded conversation. If you move a message to an IMAP folder in your mail client, only that message in the conversation will move to that folder. However, in the web interface, the whole conversation will be given the corresponding label. The same rules will apply to labels applied through filters.

Additionally, IMAP clients store a copy of a message for each label in which it appears. For example, if one particular message in your web Gmail account has the labels, ‘From Best Friends,’ ‘Classmates,’ and ‘Soccer,’ then the same message will be stored four times in your mail client; three times for each label and once in the ‘All Mail’ folder. If the message is starred, it will be downloaded a fifth time in the ‘Starred’ folder.

Hoookaayy… Thanks, GMail, but no thanks*. I’m sticking to the web interface for now, until you’ve got GMail Offline all sorted out.

*Yes, I have POP/IMAP already. Big deal.

I cannot add anything original to the current news about the blast that rocked Glorietta, a mall in the Makati central business district, so here’s a recap of the event, from bloggers’ perspective:

• Most blog posts are rehashes of news stories from the major mainstream media organizations.
• There are citizen-captured videos posted in You Tube.
• Tonyo posted a couple of videos fresh from the scene of the carnage.
• There’s a “right-wing” commentary, albeit very informative post in the Philippine Commentary blog.
• Here’s a personal viewpoint of the event from a high school social science teacher.
• Commentaries and speculations abound as well, in the usual blogger fashion.

This list is by no means exhaustive, nor would I attempt to make one. This is merely a snapshot of how bloggers perceive the event. It would also be interesting to note how these differ from how mainstream media tackles this.

Surprisingly, media people rose the occasion and — true to their calling — told the news as it is, based on whatever facts they had at the time. Analysis, speculations — editorials — can come later. This is news, this is journalism at work.

In a good way, that is.

Because of my shifting (shifty?) work sked, I had to take Monday and Tuesday off. It was a great weekend, though, since we got to accomplish many things.

We took the two kids to the doctor, just for a routine checkup. Allergies have been bugging Gab, but the little one is quite healthy. After that, we took the afternoon off at the apartment in Pasig. That night, we went out shopping for a walker. We let the little one try it out. Guess what he settled for? The most expensive one. Ugh.

The next day, it was off to the Department of Foreign Affairs to apply for the kids’ passports. It was madness. We should have settled for applying through an agency. If Gab wasn’t with us, we wouldn’t have been able to cut through the queues. (Applications for minors were given priority so our time there was significantly cut in half.) There must be a better way of processing passport applications.

It was mall time again after the trip to DFA. We were bothered by Gab’s frequent nosebleeding. The pediatrician attributed it to allergies, but cautioned us that there may be other underlying causes. Hope this turns out to be *just* caused by Gab’s nose-picking.

We had the kids driven home while Peng and I went on with our shopping chores. We went out on a “date” — our first after so many years, it seems — and it felt good being by ourselves once in a while, without the children. But guess what, we talked of nothing else but them still.

This morning, we went to Peng’s dentist friend so she can have her prophylaxis. Her friend’s clinic was in Fort Bonifacio. That place has improved, and turning out to be the next big place away from the decaying urban squalor that is the rest of Metro Manila. But for how long, I’m not sure.

Like Calvin, I should say my days are just packed. Still, it was a very great if screwed up weekend.

Originally uploaded by iandexter.

He got his mom’s sweetest smile.

Originally uploaded by iandexter.

Playing around with my phone cam’s white balance. Crappy, but acceptable.