I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t help it.

I may be called on to resign…but I had to share. We have a duty to our blogging public, after all.

I was reading about the recent mayoral landslide and saw that our good friend received 683 votes. Savannah, you’re scaring me. Seriously.

At any rate, I thought I’d humor myself and do a google search. So I did, and this is what I saw:

First please note a few things:

1. There is a sponsored google listing for the spoofed J.D. mayoral site. That means this prankster is soooo convinced of his funny (to be fair, his site is pretty funny), that not only is he willing to pay for hosting of this spoofed site, he’s also willing to shell out cash for the leading google ad.
2. Despite being a little sad and slightly pathetic, this is actually pretty amusing. What’s even more amusing are the different cycling taglines (“Vote for me or I’ll sue you” is my personal favorite, for obvious reasons.) Do a couple of google searches for our good buddy J.D. and you’ll see what I mean.

I don’t know if any of you were around on last Friday before Halloween, but there was a costume party and I didn’t go.

And I’m glad. Cause I would have lost it.

In the spirit of getting the two blog-enthused cloned ones (pictured below) off my back, I’m publishing my blog post for the week…with a hint of sweet revenge.

Fitz, Blake		Tommy, Miller

It turns out we were all blessed with two Fitz’s and two Millers last (last) Friday. That’s twice the smirking smart-alics and twice the spectacled flip-flops, respectfully.

Blake Ellis of SmackDab Studios pulled off a perfect Fitz, sporting a pink shirt, blue blazer and jeans. Classically hilarious. All that was missing was a little bit off the top. ;) Well done sir.

Adorned with black pony-tailed wig, shorts, round specs, and my favorite – flipflops with black socks (check out the picture) – Tommy Linstroth of Melaver, Inc. was the spitting image of our fearless leader. He even resigned himself to repeatedly reciting such Millerisms as “did you know Savannah has 44,000 students and 33,000 miles of fiber optic cable?”

For those of you who aren’t huge email nerds, or just have been living under a rock (devoid of Google news) lately, let me be the one to tell you (a week or so late) that “IMAP is now available for Gmail.”

Hells yea.

What is IMAP and why should you care? Well, beyond standing for Internet Message Access Protocol, it’s a basically a fancy term for a technology that allows you to sync all your email mailboxes automatically. That is, your webmail, your desktop mail client and any other device that can handle the IMAP protocol. By “sync” I mean making sure all your read messages, deleted messages, tagged messages, etc all are constant across devices, email clients etc.

If you’re anything like me, you check your email in multiple ways and hundreds of times a day. I check it at work through my desktop mail client, at home through Gmail, and everywhere else (to everyone’s chagrin) through my crackberry.

Before IMAP, all the deleted, “marked read” and tagged messages would all be out of sync (i.e. the way I last left that particular Inbox.) Now with my new IMAP’ed life, if I read a message at work, it’s marked as read in my Gmail account and on my crackberry. Same thing goes for deleted items, tagged items, etc.