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PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

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I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

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This site is built on a fresh trunk checkout of Django, running on Python 2.5.1, served by Apache and mod_python. The database is SQLite. The operating system is FreeBSD, on a VPS hosted at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet. Vintage topo imagery from the Maptech archive.

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I filled up my GMail box

"Your message could not be sent because you have exceeded your mail quota." This actually happened two months ago.

I learned of my achievement via a mail administrator wondering why thousands of pieces of mail (spam, it so happened) getting forwarded to my GMail account were bouncing back. The bounce messages didn't say "mailbox full" or "user exceeded quota" or anything like that, so even I didn't know what was going on at first.

When I signed up for GMail, I bought into their "never delete anything" philosophy, just to see where it would end up. Now you know where it ended up -- it did take two years, though.

The cleanup was damned tedious. Sending messages to the Trash 100 at a time, then clicking "Delete Forever" 100 at a time. I did that for 1500 messages. Then, when my trash was empty, I was presented with the following message:

Who needs to delete when you have over 2000 MB of storage?!

Har har.

They've since added features that allow you to select all the messages in a mailbox, rather than limiting you to 100 at a time. I just don't know why it took them two years to do it!

Monday, September 4th, 2006
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• Comment from donald koopmans, 18 months later

how do i open my g mail box? my download never downloaded, or opened my box. thanks

• Comment from Paul, 18 months later

What?

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