This morning, I decided to finally do something about the junk I am getting in my Yahoo! Mail. No, I don’t blame Yahoo!’s spam protection for not doing a good job. I brought it on myself by signing up with all sorts of websites and mailing lists and get spammed in return.

So, this morning, i decided to move important email from specific people to my Gmail. I know that Gmail has an import email feature but I decided not to use it as if may mess up my account by importing other irrelevant email, especially junk email. I decided to do it manually by forwarding the email from my Yahoo! Mail to Gmail account.

I have always disliked Gmail’s conversation view but have never felt as inconvenienced by it as now. You see, over the years, this particular friend used the same subject title more than a couple of times and even though the topics were totally different, Gmail “smartly” grouped them together. Of course I hate it!

I know I could use Mozilla Thunderbird or Outlook Express to retrieve my Gmail and view them in Folders like conventional email clients but I prefer to view my Gmail via my browser. My Outlook Express is already choked with email, as I am retrieving my Hotmail with it as well as mail to my email account assigned by my Internet Service Provider.

Anyway, I know there is no way to disable conversation view in Gmail but I still felt the need to vent. LOL I did, however, like some people advised, put in my suggestion to Gmail techs to consider giving us the option to disable conversation view.

I believe that most of us have friends or even family who are suffering from one form of addiction or another. I personally know of people who need help with smoking and drinking while a friend is addicted to gambling. None is like David Duchovny, addicted to sex, as far as I know.

These people actually need help and support, which is why a lot of them join support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous. Well, just now, I got to know that we can easily find updated lists of InTheRooms Meetings for Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Gamblers Anonymous (GA) meetings and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings.

What I like about these lists is that they are in wiki form which means that anyone with information could update the lists; or even suggests new fellowships. As a form of control, users have to be registered with the site and revisions will be reviewed and approved by the moderators of the site.

By the way, InTheRooms is actually a social networking protal just like the fellowships mentioned above, but happening online. This isn’t to say that if you participate in InTheRooms, you could quit your fellowship meetings. Many of the users here look for support in addition to what they are getting from fellowships.

Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, looks set to take on search giant Google, with their new search feature by indexing Twitter. For a start, they are indexing prominent Twitterers, and Bing users who make a search may pick up information from Twits from these people.

On one hand, this is an advancement and we have additional sources of information available through using a search engine but what worries me is that when more Twits are indexed, we may be fed with misinformation like in the recent celebrity hoax following the sudden death of Michael Jackon, where even 80’s pop star Rick Astley fell victim to.

Well, I guess it is up to Bing’s technology to filter out the random Twitter chats from solid information and provide users with something worth our time checking out.