rejon is Jon Phillips.

So, I’m in China for the next month. And, I’m faced with the problem yet again that my email hosting service, Ctyme, is blocked in China. I found a website, http://www.xs2mail.com, which lets me access this ctyme-based account. However, I still want to be able to access my IMAP email inside of my email program, Evolution.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

I see that Evolution allows for one to run custom commandline commands. Also, I can run my ctyme email as POP mail as well, but prefer to keep the same setttings inside of Evolution.
I’m thinking best to run some remote command on one of my webservers.

Has anyone else set this up before? I couldn’t find anything about this on the web at all.

So, at least I can check my ctyme.com email account, but now still really want to be able to check my email the normal way!
BTW: The Internet connection I’m using here in Guangzhou is faster than the one in my own house in San Francisco. I’m chucking SBC/ATT DLS once I get back — it is total junk! 

Jon Cruz just committed the graphical GTKMM-based Layer Dialog! This is amazing and now opens up Inkscape even further to everyone used to using this type of system for laying out graphics. Check out Inkscape, an open source drawing program. This and so many more features are available in the upcoming 0.44. I haven’t had much time to work on Inkscape…I think my main contribution to this release is updating the Creative Commons licenses to 2.5 Not that much, but I will definitely be putting the full court press on for the press releases on Inkscape for this release. Maybe I can write a feature story for a major magazine on Inkscape 0.44. Anyone interested in me doing this?

I wrote a feature article on Creative Commons, Open Source and the Creative Commons Developer Community for Linux Format UK which comes out June 1. The best news about this is they are licensing the article under CC BY-NC which will allows it to be used all over the world to help explain Creative Commons licensing.

I’m now in China for the next month and my productivity has already boosted by about 200%. At the end of every semester of teaching/school I have to just get out of town and get onto my Open Source projects, writing, and reading. I have a solid location in China so that is great for the ole productivity and mental, spiritual, and physical health.

To all developers, creators, and interested parties in and around Toronto, please help make the first Toronto CC Salon a smashing success this TUESDAY. Rob Hyndman has this to say:

The Toronto CC Salon “is a monthly event focused on building a community of artists and developers around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology. The first event is synchronized with the Mesh Conference, with hopes that future events will wend their way through TO’s vibrant creative community.” The next salon is May 16, 2006, 7-9 PM, right after mesh.