"There was an Old Man of the Hague,
Whose ideas were excessively vague;"
— We meet this old man in one of Edward Lear's limericks:
"He built a balloon,
To examine the moon,
That deluded Old Man of the Hague.
— It's Lear's birthday today. Let's celebrate it (and any other birthday, of course) with, well, balloons:
›› Let the balloons bounce and the music play for a joyful birthday. (Outlook, Outlook Express)

"The trick to enjoying something," says illustrious physicist Richard A. Muller in one of his theorems, "is understanding why others enjoy it."
You don't have to enjoy everything, of course, but you can. You can copy other people's pleasure doing math, for example, or maybe your own enjoying ice skating as a kid — like you can copy your own formatting that paragraph up there so nicely in IncrediMail:
›› In IncrediMail, you can copy the formatting (font styles and sizes as well as colors) from one part to another with a few mouse strokes.

On Any Sunday, children and grown-ups abandon sanity. On motorcycles, they race on tracks and off field, against opponents and, it seems, against their own arms, legs and shoulders.
Some of the young ones don't even need motors on their cycles to risk their limbs: they pedal like crazy on their somewhat odd-looking bicycles. Come to think of it... this "bicycle motocross" looks like great fun. Let's try this at home!
"Bicylce Moto-cross(X)", made popular by Bruce Brown's motorcycle racing documentary, quickly turned into "BMX" and... you mean it says "GMX" in the title, not "BMX"? Well, that's exciting, too:
›› GMX Mail is a reliable email service filtered well of spam and viruses whose 5 GB of online storage you can use not only through a rich web interface but also via POP or IMAP from a desktop email program.

Your goal is to occupy three hieroglyph fields on the ancient Egyptian Tjau game board.
On every turn, you move both your and your opponent's pieces. How far depends on the number of pieces on the board, and you can move more or less freely: just don't bump into other pieces.
Horst Alexander Renz's amazing Ramses game (similar to 20 squares) has few simple rules and possibilities aplenty: 3.500 at the second turn. That's nothing, of course, compared to the just about infinite number of names you can give yourself in AIM Mail:
›› AIM Mail screen names are scarce, and yours might not reflect your real name, business or pseudonym perfectly. Fortunately, you can add any further name to the From: lines of all messages you send.

Cats, in ancient Egypt, were sacred animals. So their mother and goddess became very popular, too.
Over old Egypt's long history, Bast — depicted as a young woman's body carrying a lion or cat's head — was also worshipped as the goddess of fertility, love, music, dance (which, if Herodotus is to be believed, sparked interesting celebrations) and — the triad of women, birth and children. Which, of course, takes us to nowaday's Mother's Day:
›› The best part of Mother's Day is mom, no doubt about that. But a close second is sending carefully crafted emails using one of the wonderful IncrediMail letters with Mother's Day themes. Here are my top picks.

The Alps: majestic mountains bearing a name older than the languages spoken today. Conveniently for blog post etymology, Latin altus means "high", though, and albus is "white". — White and high like Mount Rainier in Alpine Messaging System's logo.
ALPINE, in turn, can also be read as "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email" and is, essentially, Pine with full Unicode support under a more liberal license:
›› Alpine is powerful console email program that makes you use email productively with automation aplenty and nary a distraction. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

When King Henry III. of England, in the early 13th century, ordered Motheringday to be celebrated on Laetare, the fourth Sunday in Lent, he had the "mother church" more in mind than women.
Soon, history has it, the visit to your mother church — maybe your mother's church — became a family get-together, and Mothering Sunday a celebration of mothers.
Other parts of the world have different Mother's Day histories and dates, of course. In any event (and at any time), a sweet card for mom will be welcome:
›› Send a Mother's Day card via email, and wish a happy holiday. (Outlook, Outlook Express)

I'll have to ask the street musicians if their earnings increase with loudness.
It seems so. Their — sometimes, I must say, a bit repetitive — melodies delight me more and more frequently in my roof apartment.
All right: the building is a mere three stories high. But the guitars are strung and the saxophones are blown at least a block away.
In any event, I don't need any additional background music from IncrediMail:
›› Do you want to read your emails undisturbed? Do you dread opening your emails to suddenly blaring speakers? Here's how to disable all incoming emails' background music in IncrediMail.

Candles are burning hot and massage oil, brrr, is always too cool. Is that not... well, that is probably true; but turn palm, shea and soy oil into a candle, lit it — and out runs a pleasantly warm massage lotion onto your back.
Outlook Express is restricted to POP or IMAP and GMX Mail is, yay, always on the web. That's probably true as well; but there's wick of POP and IMAP in GMX Mail, too:
›› Have Outlook Express exchange mail with your free GMX Mail account. It's called "global mail exchange" after all!

Look down at the treetops and chimneys. Yes, picture yourself that tall and commanding. Now tilt the image and lean your big self back a tad.
If you followed along, you're now a bit more laid back and relaxed physically, say psychologists or maybe neuro-linguistic programmers. I'm not sure. Do you know whence this technique comes?
Either way, "lean" as in "thin" may be related to "lean" as in "bend": thin things are prone to bending, right? Now: with Attachment Remover, you can bend your Windows Mail or Outlook Express emails such that they're stripped of their files and get lean. This, of course, will make you lean back and relax, not minding the pictures in your head:
›› Outlook Express Attachment Remover deletes attachments from messages in Windows Mail and Outlook Express — without deleting the emails themselves. (Windows)