Thunderbird and Google Workspace email
Atty. Vincent S. IslesThe V. Isles & Co. Law Firm uses Google Workspace, and thus its email (@vislesco.com) is using Google's Gmail infrastructure. In July, I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird for the management…
Theory different from practice?
Project Jurisprudence posted this on their Facebook Page with the caption "Your thoughts?": This is my reaction to this post from Project Jurisprudence: This is clearly written from the perspective…
How the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) is computed
Sections 284 and 285 of the Local Government Code (Republic Act No. 7160) lay the rules on the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) (renamed National Tax Allotment since 2022). First, the…
AttyV.com versus ISLESV.NET
As I've posted last week, I have recovered ISLESV.NET, and would be removing all contents from attyv.com and transferring them to ISLESV.NET, reserving for another use attyv.com which is registered…
Cannot use Thunderbird with Skiff email (July 2023)
Based on the discussion on this Reddit thread, it seems that it is not possible to use Thunderbird to access your @skiff.com email account for now (July 2023). I hope…
Cannot use Thunderbird with ProtonMail without paying
Proton Mail is an email service provider with an emphasis on privacy and security. Its emails are end-to-end encrypted, and presumably they could not even read our emails on their…
Reverse chronological order in Thunderbird
To always show emails in reverse chronological order (latest on top) in Thunderbird, go to View > Sort by and then make sure that Date and Descending are checked. If…
Outlook 2016 is incompatible with @gmail.com (July 2023)
As part of this year's technical housekeeping, I decided that I would use just one email client for all my email accounts, the top two of which are vincent.isles@vislesco.com for…
bentong.topcities.com
The litigation over Internet Archive's decision during the pandemic to allow its users to "check out" digital copies of copyrighted books in its collections triggered my curiosity to look into…
Recovering ISLESV.NET after all these years
ISLESV.NET was my very first registered domain, after I decided that I should get my own domain. Sometime ago, I forgot to renew it within its active period, and I…