Compressing my Thunderbird Inbox
I had the brilliant idea of compressing my 1.1 GB Thunderbird inbox today. See, it’s about 4% of my entire disk space on this Dell Inspiron 8200, and I really would like to do something else with that space. So, I just went to C:Documents and SettingsMy UserApplication DataThunderbird and compressed the whole Thunderbird folder. In Windows XP (home and pro) you can just right click the folder, go to properties, and check a “compress” box.
That done (it took half an hour, almost), I saved just over 200mb of disk space. Compressing Thunderbird using the built in filesystem feature in Windows XP makes it 18% smaller than before, for which my computer is thankful.
US Airways: Considerate
USAirways is quite considerate. Today in the mail I just received a $100 voucher because they lost my luggage on their Philadelphia to Ithaca route this Christmas. I got it back the next day by Taxi, but it was quite unexpected. Unfortunately, the same thing has happened again recently when I went to Stamford to conduct an interview with a company there, and I think I will have to write them again…