"It is a side-effect of Google using "labels" and how IMAP works. Some e-mail client applications that access the GMail folders using IMAP will cause messages to be "archived" instead of being deleted. Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird are two such e-mail client applications. This script can be run to send these "archived" messages to GMail's Trash folder. Messages that have any label are left as "archived" and only the messages without any label are moved to Trash by the script. Once in the Trash folder, the messages will then be deleted after 30 days, or manually using the GMail web interface by clicking the link titled "Empty Trash"."
- Stephen Gornick
"Here's a tip for those who access their gmail using an e-mail client (e.g., Thunderbird, Outlook) and also want Trash to not work like normal Trash, not gmail's "archive". This tool will move to gmail Trash all messages that exist in your archive but have no label. http://launchpad.net/gmarchi..."
- Stephen Gornick
"Even though I'm a longtime Opera user (my first Opera install was a Trialware version, nearly a decade ago), unless it changes to an open source model I don't know how Opera can keep pace with Firefox. When Opera was 2X to 4X faster than FF, I was willing to overlook the negatives (e.g., try uploading a photo to eBay ... won't work under Opera 9.5). But Firefox evolved and now with v3, Opera's open source competitor has reached near parity to Opera in terms of performance and features. Opera's DragonFly / Developer Tools is a nice alternative to Firebug, but Firefox is where this functionality appeared first. I'm not saying that Opera won't survive, and I'm sure Opera 10 (Peregrine) will be a nice improvement from Opera 9.5 even. It is just that FF v3 fills the need just fine now. Unless they go open source, Opera will become less and less relevant from here."
- Stephen Gornick
"Interesting idea. Fortunately, since Google doesn't require login for its search and many other features, there isn't an easy way for a web server to know specifically where the user is geographically located. There is geo-location mapping for the users's IP address (e.g., http://www.ip2location.com/ ) but that is general, such as major metro area but not to a specific address or specific municipality even."
- Stephen Gornick