My friend Nat Torkington from O’Reilly Radar points out a few cool email visualization tools, including Mail Trends, and this grab bag of visualizations.

Back from almost 10 days without access to the net, email, etc., and after some exploration of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. Swam in warm caribbean waters yesterday morning, and stared at a snowstorm this morning. I can’t remember the last time I was so disconnected from the net.
Recommendations:
* Cochinita pibil from a street [...]

I just realized that I forgot to blog about some of the exciting things going on in Thunderbird land these days.
First, I’m very happy to announce that another engineer has signed up to work full time on Thunderbird — Mark Banner, aka Standard8 on IRC. Mark is well known to the Mozilla community, as [...]

In an interview to the London Times, Ray Tomlinson, described as the inventor of e-mail, explains that he uses Thunderbird.
The more substantive comment in my mind:

Does he think, given the development of other forms of electronic communication such as instant messaging and social networking, that his creation will stand the test of time?
“I [...]