I arrived in Vancouver on Tuesday July 1st after my long adventure across the country. I think all the sun, baseball parks, and driving ran down my system so after my friends left and I got 2 days of work in I spent the weekend sleeping.

Cleveland Indians	Detroit Tigers
Chicago White Sox	St. Louis Cardinals
Kansas City Royals	Colorado Rockies
Oakland A’s	Seattle Mariners

Eight stadiums in all.  An amazing trip, though some places were certainly missed due to timing.  I would have loved to see a Cubs game in Chicago as well as a Giants game in San Francisco but the teams weren’t available when we were coming through.  Next time.

Vancouver

Is a beautiful place.  I seem to have brought nothing but perfect weather with me as everyday but one was sunny and warm.  I quickly setup a Canadian SIN (which is similar to an American SSN), a local bank account and spent the last couple of weeks getting settled into to my international digs.  I had already prearranged a stay in a temporary apartment which is working out well as it’s right in Yaletown and lets me easily explore the downtown area.

Vancouver has such a mix of different people.  Everyday I hear people speaking in a number of different languages, Chinese, German, Russian, and Spanish to name a few I could recognize.  Everyday on my walk to and from work I smell someone smoking weed somewhere.  And everyday I hear the grinding and pounding noise of construction.  Overall somewhat similar to summers in Cambridge.

Experimental Message View

Before I left the states we started work on something I called The Experimental Message View.  I’ll post more about it later, but the simplistic goal is to create a new way of interacting with messages and with the required technology change enables others to easily create alternate experiments inside Thunderbird.

Andrew Sutherland has been cranking on the Global Database work with an initial preview, an m-1 trial release (download and install), and even an early visualization.

Paul Rouget has updated his work on the new treeview API which could help us implement richer message lists by changing how we display messages.

Things are coming together quickly.