UN recognises Palestine as a non-member observer state

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13701636

I'm not clear on the distinctions in degree in being recognised as a state, but it's a clear step forward to recognise palestine as a state at all (and hopefully good for palestine and israel).

State of the inbox

In the ongoing quest to not waste any time sifting through mountains of unsorted email, what's the current status of my inbox?

Inbox

Status: Zero messages.

This is always at zero messages except when I'm away from the computer for a week. When I read a message it's immediately archived/deleted, moved to "reply", or replied to (if it just needs an acknowledgement).

Subfolders of inbox

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Summary

Inbox Zero no longer really applies. My actual inbox is always empty and has been for a long time. My "chat" and "reply" folders will never be actually empty (or I'm spending too much time dealing with my email!)

But a reasonable summary is:

Six emails overdue for a reply of some sort.
Thirty-two emails which could benefit from a reply but don't need it in a specific time frame.
Nothing else.

Go me!

I'm not going to go on obsessively improving my email -- the aim is to get it out of the way without losing important stuff, not to sort everything into colour-coded overlapping categories. But I have improved a lot, but still have problems.

Syria disconnects from internet

All four main connections from Syria to the internet cut off (three undersea cables, one overland into Turkey). Minister for Information denies that it was deliberate on behalf of the government.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-syria-turned-off-the-internet
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/11/syria-off-the-air.shtml