Since I knew that I was going to be unable to host my own email server for an unknown period of time, last week I began looking for an alternative. After looking around a bit, I found out that Google had created a program that lets you use their service to provide email for a domain. So far, it has done pretty well as an interim solution until I can begin hosting my own email service again. It lets me get email through POP3 which is sufficient (though I much prefered IMAP since I use multiple computers). It also provides a catch-all address which is necessary for me due to the sheer number of pseudo-real email address that I've given out of the years.



With regard to more pressing matters, I set a date for the moving people to come to my house to box things (another company is coming to actually move them). This means that I have to have figured out what I'm going to take by the 15th at 9am. This will probably involve me going through stuff and throwing much away.



Obligatory XPost news

Earlier this morning, I got a reply back from Tumblr about their not having an authentication-only option in their API and they said that was a good idea that just hadn't crossed their minds yet. Their response makes me think that they'll probably add such a feature in the near future. I was quite suprised that I got such a quick response from them (or any response at all, really). When I was having trouble with my blogger account, it took nearly a week to get a response. I wasn't even a member when I first emailed Tumblr and I got a response in under a day--very impressive.



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