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<<  Tuesday, September 30, 2003  >> MailBucket: an email-to-RSS gateway Back in March, I mentioned that Tom Dyson is working on XPath bindings for PostgreSQL. Today he wrote to announce something completely different: an email-to-RSS gateway called MailBucket. It couldn't be simpler to use. Moments ago I sent an email to clever@mailbucket.org. Almost immediately, I was able to subscribe to http://www.mailbucket.org/clever.xml, which is also rendered here. I'm reminded of Steve Yost's QuickTopic, another clever hack that crosses communication-mode boundaries. I feel certain that MailBucket will be useful, though I can't say exactly in what ways. Whether and how names expire or get recycled is one interesting question that will come up. For example, I've just claimed the word 'clever' on a whim -- but when that thread dies, should 'clever' be tied perpetually to my whim? Then, of course, there's the question of spam. A long-lived MailBucket namespace will undoubtedly get spammed. But perhaps an instance of the service supporting collaboration within a known group could make effective use of whitelisting. In any case, it's a worthy experiment and a clever idea. Nice going, Tom!   The avocado-green fridge Tom Yager wrote an unusually poetic column this week. I am particularly savoring the first two sentences of his lead: The PC is the black and white TV in the wood cabinet. It's the round, tan thermostat dial, the avocado-green fridge, the Steve Miller Band. [InfoWorld: Die, die, accursed PC] And here's my favorite line: A 3GHz Pentium 4 desktop is an IBM PC/AT wearing a mail-order gown and too much rouge. Great stuff! Of course there's something to be said for the avocado-green fridge, as Russell Beattie -- lusting over Tim Bray's new PowerBook -- observes: More and more webloggers are receiving theirs in the mail (the bastards, all of them) and I'm seeing pics and getting more and more insane with jealousy. I really *want* that box. But man, it's expensive. These guys must be made of money. $2500+ for a laptop? That's a serious premium over the $1200 I paid for this Toshiba. [Russell Beattie's Notebook] As for me, I'm happy to have a foot in both camps. The original 15" TiBook is, by a longshot, the most useful laptop I've ever carried around. But I collect avocado-green fridges too. They're real handy gadgets.

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