Sunday, January 28, 2007 I have been talking about Vertigo for a couple of years now. Vertigo is a software product line currently under development at White Peak Software. In a nutshell it is an email program for the Windows desktop. And yes, it will be release this year.
Why develop yet another email program? Simple, none of the available mail programs suit my needs as a small business owner. And I have tried them all including Outlook, The Bat, Eudora, Poca, and ThunderBird. My needs are not unique and there is definitely an untouched market out there, which is why we are building yet another, albeit, a new kind of email program.
We current have a working version of Vertigo that is being used daily. Dogfooding an email program, though, can have its challenges especially given than I must send emails out every day. The thing that has surprised me the most is the large amount of crap contained in mail messages.
We are building a database containing thousands and thousands (soon to be hundreds of thousands) of real mail messages. Of course the majority of the messages in our database are spam mail. This will be extremely helpful when work begins on the spam filter feature. But the spam messages are also proving to be helpful in uncovering bugs in Vertigo. Malformed message headers, date formats, and MIME encoding are common. Then of course there are the attachments containing questionable content. It's been amazing to see what actually happens with email under the hood. posted by Kirby | January 28 09:54 AM | comments (0)
Friday, January 26, 2007 It's been over a month since my last blog posting. I've been very busy the last 2 months and haven't had time to make any thoughtful postings. Today's no different.
For those who don't know me well I travel a lot. Not as much as I did a few years ago but enough. I have definitely scaled back on the travel in recent years, but I'm still out of town at least twice a month on average. So I thought I might be fun to track the places I visit in 2007.
I'll update this page after each trip. That way I will know if I travel as much as I think a do.
- Jan 14 - Jan 15: Killington VT
- Jan 17 - Jan 20: Killington VT
- Jan 22 - Jan 25: Brussels and Brugge
- Feb 1 - Feb 5: Sugarloaf Maine
- Feb 11 - Feb 12: Killington VT
- Feb 14 - Feb 15: Killington VT
- Feb 27 - Feb 28: Salt Lake City UT
- Feb 28 - Mar 6: Whistler BC
- Mar 9 - Mar 10: New York City (great party Joe)
- Mar 17 - Mar 18: New York City (St Patty's Day celebration)
- Mar 21 - Mar 23: Killington VT
- Mar 30 - Apr 3: Killington VT
- Apr 10 - Apr 13: Killington VT (Thursday was an epic day.)
- May 1: Killington VT
- May 4 - May 7: Bryn Athyns PA
- May 25 - May 27: East Durham NY
- June 1 - June 4: Village Creek State Park (AR), Olive Branch MS
- June 15 - June 17: Conway Lake NH
- June 29 - July 1: Loudon NH (NASCAR weekend)
- July 11 - July 12: New York City
- July 17 - July 18: New York City
- July 18 - July 20: Bermuda (business)
- July 31 - August 12: Cape May, Assateague Island, and The Outer Banks
- August 20 - August 21: Phoenix AZ
- August 31 - September 1: New York City
- September 4 - September 7: New York City (business)
- September 10 - September 13: New York City (business)
- September 17 - September 21: Bermuda (business)
- September 21 - September 23: St. Louis (Lovefest 07)
- September 24 - September 27: Bermuda (business)
- September 29 - September 30: Baltimore
- October 1 - October 2: New York City (business)
- October 5 - October 7: Lake George, NY
- October 8 - October 11: New York City (business)
- October 17 - October 20: Killington VT
- October 23 - October 26: New York City (business)
- October 28 - October 30: New York City (business)
- November 5 - November 7: New York City (business)
- November 9 - November 11: Booneville MS
- November 12 - November 15: New York City (business)
- November 19 - November 20: New York City (business)
- November 21 - November 25: Killington VT
- November 26 - November 29: New York City (business)
- December 11 - December 14: New York City (business)
- December 20 - December 23: Killington VT
- December 23 - December 27: Bryn Athyn PA
