@fentie: I'm not too familiar with this sort of coding, but perhaps with enough time and tries, I can figure it out. I was able to find exactly what I wanted on [Userstyles.org] — Gmail Planet Theme Dark Message Pane. Unfortunately, whatever very recent update Google did broke it (a comment from March 3 said it…

@Z1NX: It's a minor update, so it shouldn't. None of the ones I have installed were affected by the upgrade.

@fentie: Thanks for that code. A Stylish or Greasemonkey script was the sort of thing I had in mind, but I didn't know what Google named the parts to know what I should try to change. Unfortunately, your code doesn't seem to work for me. I'm not sure why, but I'll see if I can figure it out. Thanks for the start.

@kartunes: Thanks for the info. That does display e-mail messages the way I'd like to see them displayed on other dark themes. However, I'm not a big fan the other colors on this one (yellow text, purple highlights). Is there any way I can recolor open e-mails in the Planets theme to look like they do with the…

Maybe it depends on what you're used to. I can work with either light or dark themes. I'm used to most web sites being on the light side, but I often use dark themes for work-related activities (e.g., programming, editing, terminal windows). With an astronomy background, I'm partial to Gmail's Planets theme, which…

On the work side, I was inducted into my high school's academic hall of fame, and am currently the youngest member to be inducted.

@fluxrad: I would say it's not much different, except that this doesn't put any additional force on the leaves. Gravity takes care of everything. And from what I've read, forcing water out of tea leaves isn't the best thing (though I can't remember exactly why), so I'd opt for the IngenuiTEA over a French press.

@TommySez: I think there were similar comments about the original IngenuiTEA being difficult to clean. If I remember correctly, they improved the design, and this newer model is easier to clean than the old one. I have an older one though, so I can't say first-hand how good the newer one is.

@Peter Gray: True, Upton does have a much bigger stock. For some people, that can be a problem though. Example: Adagio has about 6 Darjeelings total, and Upton's print catalog has about 7 *pages* of India teas from the Darjeeling region. How am I supposed to decide exactly what type of tea (e.g., bold-leaf fancy…

@infmom: Presses are OK, but you really have to empty them immediately. If you don't, then the leaves continue to steep in the remaining water, which is likely to make for a bitter brew. I suppose the IngenuiTEA works in a similar way though, just without forcing the leaves down, so whichever one works for you is…

@Wit: If the infuser you're talking about is what I think it is, it's much smaller, which restricts the amount of room the tea leaves have to expand. Generally speaking, the more room the loose tea leaves have to expand, the better. That's why something like the IngenuiTEA, where the whole pot is available, is…

I've had one of these for years. It's a great way to brew loose tea easily. I use it at home, but because there's some cleaning involved, I prefer paper filters for use at work.

While I'm on travel, the main thing I want to be able to do is check my e-mail (personal and work), and I can do that from my Palm Centro. For simpler tasks, I think my Centro would be enough, but I wouldn't want to do large amounts of work on it (e.g., editing Word documents). Also, it's far easier to travel with…

@edmicman: I agree. I don't like HTML signatures or e-mails. It used to cause a lot of problems for me while in school and on accounts that couldn't handle it. To quote Wikipedia's article on HTML, "Use of HTML in e-mail is controversial because of compatibility issues, because it can be used in phishing/privacy…

I might attend, but it would depend on a lot of factors touched on in the survey. Chances are I couldn't get work to cover it, so it would have to be done personally. This means location and cost are primary factors — it has to be close and cheap. I agree with the sentiment of some previous comments that the…

Regarding insured accounts, that's certainly good, but apparently the FDIC isn't the only insurer. My account at a credit union is federally insured by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) in the same way banks are federally insured by the FDIC. So it's worth double-checking — if you don't immediately see…

Hmm. I hadn't heard about this before and just went looking for my verification numbers. I found one for the second account I created, but so far haven't found one for the first account I created. I have the e-mail with a URL to click to verify the account request, and one saying that my user name was changed when…

This is a great addition. I think everyone has forgotten an attachment at some point. Having a check like this to help catch missing attachments is quite useful. If there are some minor bugs with it, as suggested by the article, hopefully they'll be worked out soon.

I did this a while ago, when my wife was getting free stuff through VistaPrint. We didn't have any problem with them, and AFAIK have not been signed up for anything we didn't want. Compared to the business cards I got from work, the paper/stock is not as stiff or glossy, the card is slightly smaller (by 2mm on one…

I've been using the Google Notebook extension to do this kind of noting web pages for later reading.