Thunderbird POP timeout problem

I came across a problem today with Mozilla Thunderbird (though not necessarily isolated to this client) and the POP mail server. It came about because a user has been out of the office and not pop’ing his mail to the desktop. The server had accumulated 100MB of email over this time.
The problem
Thunderbird has a default [...]

Importing Outlook Calendar to Google Calendar

The moment has finally arrived, Google has released the much rumored Google Calendar today in beta form (go figure!). Here are the steps necessary to migrate from Outlook to Google’s implementation of calendaring.

From Outlook, click File->Import and Export
Select Export to a file
Select Comma Separated Values (DOS). I had to install the appropriate translator here.
Select folder [...]