Heinz's Email Blog April 2006 Archive

First, symbols of goods — a bushel of grain, for example — were used to keep track of them. Then somebody had the epochal idea of using special symbols to ... Read More

If you want your emails to look good, IntelliMerge, the venerable Mac OS X email marketing tool, has a new way to help you with that. Design the message as ... Read More

Breaking the eggs is one of the most fun parts of baking cakes and cookies, is it not? To make sure not all shells break loose in the excitement (and ... Read More

Cleaning an oven is one of those activities, and I think you might be able to follow me here, that can make you wish you had never begun. It' a lot ... Read More

If you have more than one AOL or AIM screen name, AIM Mail, the fine free email service from AOL, is now easier to use. You can switch between accounts ... Read More

As if digging a tunnel was not difficult enough, doing it under a river adds a constant inflow of water. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, a civil engineer who had fled ... Read More

Time flies when you do not notice its passing. This induces the false impression that, in order to get most out of your time, you'd better not lose track of ... Read More

I tend to forget dusting the bookshelves in my office. Mind you, I enjoy doing this and I love having books that overflow with ideas not dust, but this bookshelf ... Read More

With its numerous glands, mysterious hormones and meticulous control mechanisms, the endocrine system is one of the most fascinating parts of the human body. The hormones are often called "chemical ... Read More

Did you know that sweet is a descendant of the wonderful Greek word hedone, pleasure? Accordingly, the hedonist, every ethical theory's center whether they like it or not, can but ... Read More

You have in your hands a remote control. It is not working. 91% of such malfunctioning is caused by empty batteries. If the batteries are empty, the remote control's led ... Read More

In 1885, Carl Auer von Welsbach (of gas mantle fame) identified an interesting metal. The rare neodymium is not only used to give glass a distinctive shade and lasers as ... Read More

You see, cooking works like this: Not sure whether what you have in your pan or bowl will delight your or your friends' taste buds? If it's sweet, add some rum. ... Read More

The famous Engrish inscriptions seen across Japan are mostly (not always) design elements. Since Japanese characters do not lend themselves well to stylish modification, artistically designed Latin letters are used ... Read More

When the winds that blow over the Himalaya, the Alps, the Andes and Rwenzori Mountains reach so high as to reach the stratosphere, they can literally turn the jet streams ... Read More

How often do you plan events, meetings, adventures, meals and appointments in emails? Now Gmail, the almost-forbidden free email service, can help you do it faster and with elegance. The ... Read More

The tragedy of good advice settles in, of course, when you have been following what it suggests all along. Relax. I have no good advice. I have but a tip: ›› Using ... Read More

Every action is successful if you are creative enough with the criteria used for its evaluation or if you wait long enough. I do not dare say either way is ... Read More

Light is a wave, the great Christiaan Huygens, born on this day some four centuries ago, was one of the first to claim. Now, scientific theories in the public arena ... Read More

It's the first day of Songkran, the Thai New Year celebrations, again. Many wonderful traditions surround this feast of cleaning, renewal and splashing water. People carry handfuls of sand to ... Read More

The art of dyeing eggs for Easter is as entertaining as it is widespread. The cats like the eggs and the bacon in particular while the dye is of lesser ... Read More

Short and a bit odd, the Ryan X-13 stood at Edwards Air Force Base, that famous site of flight testing. It really "stood" there, on its tail. But it did ... Read More

The small church in the small village in the Austrian mountains where I grew up for me as a child was a big church in a big village. But what ... Read More

Sure, you can try to figure out future needs in advance and plan accordingly. Or you cherish and satisfy desires as they appear. Gmail is always there to hand you ... Read More

Zechariah, a prophet of the Old Testament, had foretold the arrival of the savior king in Jerusalem, humbly seated on a donkey. About five hundred years later, Jesus entered the ... Read More

Cays are tiny islands made of coral and sand that barely rise above the sea. Heron Island is a picturesque cay in the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's coast, for ... Read More

On April 7, 1964, IBM announced one of the largest and most expensive (USD 5 billion then, maybe 90 today) projects in corporate history: the System/360 (360 as in 360 ... Read More

When Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel asked Ernest Beaux to create a fragrance for her in 1921, legend has it the Russian perfumer returned with five flasks, labeled "1" to "5". Coco ... Read More

If you have used BlogBridge, the maker and keeper of blogging bridges, lately, you know it has been improved in a myriad of ways during the past 9 months. Not ... Read More

I have some shirts to iron. What a joyful job (not "chore") that will be, thanks in part to Mary Florence Potts. On April 4, 135 short years ago, Mrs Potts ... Read More

To send your Easter emails using this background perfectly equipped and styled, head to the kitchen first and make chocolate fudge Easter eggs (maybe you can trade a password for ... Read More

What is history? What is history but traces of memory kept alive at various levels? — Mostly thoughts. And who says these cannot be changed? Yes, there are the emails that ... Read More

Maybe I will never quite understand why the word to describe something long and wide ("wiiide") can be pronounced in so hastened and short a manner. For the purpose of ... Read More

Identity theft, cold winter nights spent writing with freezing ink, building the Eiffel tower, Napoleon's army and one of the most intriguing problems of mathematics are but some of the ... Read More