I've complained about the Inbox of Insanity before, and the oddball things it attracts like zombie headhunters, copious spam, and Hawaiian Gods with No Pants On...well, now apparently I can make it look as wild as it desires.
According to the Official Gmail Blog, we can now dress up our Gmail inboxes with everything from retro style to sleek chrome to ice cream to 'weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox'.
RAIN on my mailbox? Who hired THAT designer? Maybe an Arizonan (Senator McCain perhaps, at a loose end after the campaign?), but certainly nobody from our soaking-drippy part of the world. Ireland has had 416 days of rain so far this year, and now Gmail offers me more.
Thanks guys. Brilliant.
Ah well...fiddling with mailbox settings is a great excuse to procrastinate, instead of getting down the 15,000 words I'm trying to manage over the next 24 hours, in a push to finish the crap novel I'm writing for NaNoWriMo so I can get started on a new and much better one.
Oh please God let the next one be much better... please please...
Why can't I find the chocolate Inbox theme? It must be here somewhere...
Feel free to distract me, by the way.
Go on.
It's ok, really.
Go on.
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Do you really want a distraction? Do you? Here's one!
We interrupt your thought process to offer,"Ooh...chocolate. Can't imagine life without it."
Now please return to your normal... whatever. ;)
GASP! I thought I reported this last evening. Someone has stolen your secret word. How will catherine & I survive without trying to figure out the secret language of our posts?
Thanks for distracting /me/ by sending me off to examine Gmail themes - I quite like the pebble one, actually. And there's a ninja!
Hope, you're right! Oh NO! How will I entertain myself now? I was actually planning to keep a list of all the more word-like Captcha words, to see if I could spot any real ones. Damn.
I think I'm going to make myself some hot chocolate now. I should have been in bed an hour ago but I so wanted to reach 40k...
Oooooo hot chocolate...excellent idea. First hot chocolate, THEN I'll fiddle the Gmail, THEN I'll work on my wordcount, etc.
And Ciara, thanks! LOL
So the secret-word thing, here's what happened. First, whether my connection or the machine or some shift in the cosmos (who knows), the stupid thing wouldn't appear for me most of this week, so I had to repeatedly reload just to comment on my OWN blog which was frankly dumb.
Then I read Grandad's post about 'how to blog' in which he advises us all to avoid such words altogether because they're irritating. I caught myself thinking, damn right they are, I hate those bloody things. D'oh! If **I** hate them so much, why do I HAVE them?
The answer was simple: because it didn't occur to me until then, that I could get rid of it.
I poked around in the Settings department, and I got rid of it.
As Baby Princess is saying these days, ta-ta-ta-DA!
(she's singing the 20th Century Fox theme repeatedly for some reason, an echolalia thing perhaps?)
Ah yes, my recent achievements are mighty indeed...
I recently got on Facebook and have discovered that it can be the ideal time suck!
Carol, I avoid the social networking sites like plague--because I know myself, and I might disappear from the real world altogether! LOL
But it's funny you should mention it, because I've been getting nudges in that direction from all sorts of places; that I simply *need* (one reason and another) at least a presence on Facebook.
Oh noooooo.....
Hang tough woman...don't desert us for Facebook World!
I may be the last adult on earth [no, I think Radge made this statement as well] who has absolutely NO interest in Facebook. Too much to do as it is.
So I beg you, for my own sanity sake, don't go over to the dark side and make me follow you there because you've left us here, all alone.
And although I was teasing about the "word", in my heart, I thank you for not making me jump through another hoop.
Have a great day...I'm off to one of those Staff meeting things. Perhaps you could eat some chocolate for me and Radge could have a small drink in pity for me. :)
Ummm, so my distraction is a bit late, but here it is nonetheless. I don't Gmail, but I envy your rainy weather. No, I'm NOT crazy, I am just happier when its gloomy outside. Must be some kind of genetic defect. I should have been born in Seattle. Or Ireland.
There's always Twitter! *sigh* Sorry.
Thanks Hope! I will indeed eat the chocolate, and as Radge seems busy lately, will take on his drink duty (generosity itself, me).
Ashley, if you're really envious of rainy weather, I'm willing to trade houses if you like. (Oh God please)
Hey K8!
No f*7King way chickie!!
:-)
LOL
I haven't seen the Gmail inbox changes -- but you've got to check out the new (at least new to me) video deal they've added. It's free and allows you to visit with friends/family you don't get to see. It was really neat to see 3 of my grandbabes the other night - and my sweet daughter. Check it out! (And you win - I've now gotta go check out the inbox thingy..)
I've actually put the weather them onto my Gmail inbox - by accident, because it's called 'Tree'. But it's actually pretty cool - it changes depending on the weather in the place you tell it you're in. (I'm tempted to tell it Honolulu so I can have sunshine all the time.)
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