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I just learned the news that Eudora, once the coolest e-mail client around, is being folded as a standalone product and united with the Thunderbird code base, to create “Penelope.”

I started using Eudora version 1.3SFU (developed at Simon Fraser University) a long time ago, and I think I stopped using it around version 4 or version 5-ish. It was replaced in my world with a Microsoft e-mail client, which brought unified calendaring, and ultimately connectivity to Microsoft Exchange. That was / is pretty hard to beat, interface or not.

The cool thing about Eudora was that it was pure e-mail, fast and simple. I don’t know if its interface would be to my liking today, but then again, it’s been awhile since I visited it. I think at one point way back when I actually received a message from Steve Dorner about a questionI had regarding the software. In those days, people had time to answer questions about how a piece of software worked (Well, I still think they do if they make time). I thought that was a cool thing.

So, so long, and best to you in your new incarnation (can Penelope by any chance reverse engineer a connection to Microsoft Exchange? Just asking…)

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Michael sends along his Halloween greetings, plus this smashing Halloween Party Invitation. It will be the do not miss of the season.

Unfortunately, I am going to miss it. And I’m forbidden from posting the location, a phone number, or an e-mail to find out more about it.

But I know it will be fun. I can feel it. In my bones.

This posting is 2, 2, 2 reviews in one.

First, Google Docs : This is the new Google-ized Writely wordprocessor. The cool thing about it is that it posts to Blogs, in additional to doing all of the the other standard stuff, like saving to Word, etc. It also allows for collaboration, in a sort of Wiki like way.

I really like it. Like Google, the interface itself, it’s clean and doesn’t have the bloat of even the best wordprocessors, like Microsoft Word for Mac. The other thing about it is that it doesn’t have the psychological overhead of a computer based word processor where you have to go and figure out where to save that document on your hard drive so that you can find it later to e-mail to someone. I’ve never understood that. It has just about everything you need, plus it saves to any format, plus PDF. I know that Word is the standard in the business world, but this definitely gives Microsoft a run for its money.

Only slight complaint is that it can be sluggish when doing things to a document, like inserting a URL, or saving. However, it is completely tuned for Web 2.0, with tagging, posting to blogs, and other stuff that Microsoft should have done a long time ago instead of focusing on pretty tables. Is there hope that the Microsoft Mac Office in 2007 will be able to post to Wordpress?

This posting is too long already, so I’ll talk about Nike Free another day. I like those, too.

Update: The tags and title didn’t come through when posting from Google. So it’s still in beta…