I logged in to do a build of one of our older utilities…  It’s been a while apparently…  IE5?!

I was just noticing that our incredibly out of date OpenBSD server at work has only 18 processes running on it.  That’s nuts!

  
I’m used to my Ubuntu desktop at 177 when I’m not even doing anything.

How things change…

I wanted to be able to quickly create Remember the Milk tasks from e-mail messages in Outlook.  Basically:

1. Forward e-mail to your private RTM e-mail address.
2. Change e-mail to text only because otherwise RTM won’t find embedded commands
3. Add header with spots to fill out due date and priority
4. Let you adjust the headers before sending it

Press “ALT+F11” to bring up the Visual Basic editor while in Outlook:

Right click on “Project 1” and choose “Insert –> Module”.  Paste in the following code into the newly created “Module1” (being sure to update the e-mail address on the objMail.To line).

Sub CreateRtmTask()
Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
Set objItem = GetCurrentItem()
Set objMail = objItem.Forward
objMail.To = "RTM ADDRESS GOES HERE@rmilk.com"
objMail.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain
objMail.Body = "Priority: " & vbCrLf & _
                "Due: " & vbCrLf & _
                "Tags: " & vbCrLf & _
                "Location: @work" & vbCrLf & _
                vbcrfl & "—" & objMail.Body
objMail.Display
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objMail = Nothing
End Sub

Function GetCurrentItem() As Object
Dim objApp As Outlook.Application
Set objApp = Application
On Error Resume Next
Select Case TypeName(objApp.ActiveWindow)
Case "Explorer"
Set GetCurrentItem = _
objApp.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
Case "Inspector"
Set GetCurrentItem = _
objApp.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
Case Else
End Select
End Function

Now you can add a button.  Right click on the toolbar in the main outlook Window and choose “Customize”.  Find the Macro you just created:

And drag it to the toolbar in outlook.  You can the right-click on it to change the Text and Icon for it.  Voila.  

Now clicking on the e-mail and hitting the new button will pop-up a mostly filled out e-mail to create the task in RTM.

I finally closed my Dreamhost account.  They’ve been absolutely fantastic but I just didn’t need it any more.  Is it strange that this e-mail actually made me sad (specifically the closing)?

Hello,

This is just an email verification for you that we’ve now closed your
Account as you just requested via our web panel.

You will no longer receive any bills from us (unless you kept an
active domain _registration_ with us) nor other communications.

We’re very sorry it didn’t work out and maybe we’ll see you again
someday!

Sincerely,
The UnHappy DreamHost Goodbye Team