Time Flies

It seems like I post every ten days or thereabouts. My original goal was to post things like mini-movie reviews, book reviews, and/or general rants. Of course, if I actually want people to read this, I need to pick a specialty topic (like - um - systems administration), and make sure to cater to that audience. Which is, I think, what I will shoot for. In the meantime, there will just be placeholders like this. :)

My Yahoo! Mail is out of beta

I log into my Yahoo Mail this morning and it's a nice blue color, instead of the cream/white color scheme. And, lo and behold, it no longer says Beta. I heard weeks ago on Windows Weekly that it was getting out of Beta and gradually being rolled out to users. Now I, an eight-year user of Yahoo Mail, (and maybe 9-month user of "beta") finally get the final version of "new" Yahoo! Mail.

And really, it's been looking like a finished product for a while now. The UI is frankly better than Gmail, which is saying a lot. The main reason for this is the keyboard shortcuts, which are strangely lacking in Gmail. If Gmail does have keyboard commands for doing common things, I haven't found what they are yet. The Gmail interface could borrow a lot from Google Reader, which offers a panoply of keyboard shortcuts that are delightful to use (especially for me, someone who really gets things done faster with a keyboard than with a mouse). Speaking of Google Reader, time for some blog-reading...