Thank you, Erin!

You need to send this info to Wired, Engadget, or Gizmodo. They probably would love to check this out.

You think? I just can't figure out why no one else apparently seems to be experiencing this problem.

If you look at the full headers of your messages, you can track your email's progress by looking at the "Received:" headers. You should be able to pinpoint where the message is getting delayed.

Already did that, Tom. I know exactly where it's been getting delayed. Ever since they switched to SmartZone for their mail, there's a delay between the SmartZone box and the actual Comcast mail servers. For instance, look at this recent LJ comment notification:

Received: from imta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (LHLO

imta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.30.13) by

sz0121.ev.mail.comcast.net with LMTP; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:13:35 +0000 (UTC)

Received: from livejournal.com ([208.93.0.128])

by imta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast

id HsUR1f03T2li9uQ01sUSLg; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:28:26 +0000

Forty-five fucking minutes between the time Comcast received my e-mail and the time they delivered it to my inbox. I've provided this header information over and over to Comcast tech support and they don't even acknowledge that anything is going wrong. One woman actually told me that oh, it's natural for there to be a delay like that.

Drobo FS is designed to be accessed by multiple users at once (be a network server) and to be accessed remotely.

Also for academics I might look into good source citation/notetaking software. If you are writing with a lot of citations having them in a database makes your life easier. Gotchas to watch out for - make sure output styles are customizable. Wont make specific recs because you need Hebrew and while most have Hebrew modules don't know which have Hebrew modules that suck.

Typo, that idea of source citation ROCKS. Can you recommend on an English/German one, so I'll be able to compare it to other versions? (and oh, are you talking about something like Mendeley?)

And, humm. Is there a Mendeley for books? Because the institute's library needs reorganization...

Shir: the ones I see most are Endnote and Zotero. Endnote is more optimized for keeping sources sorted and formatting bibliographies; Zotero is better for the researching/note-taking/gathering phase and has great tools for sharing sources among research groups. Both have proponents, and the choice may come down to your style or your group's needs.

(Zotero is free, Endnote isn't, but they have good academic pricing in the US, which makes me think that they at least might have something similar elsewhere.)

Zotero is really excellent.

Shir, maybe Librarything for a small library?

For citation management, we have site licenses for both EndNote and Refworks (both of which support Unicode for non-Roman scripts); free online products like them include Mendeley and Zotero. Talk to a librarian at your institution to learn more.

aaaand all the academic citations geeks xpost.

Talk to a librarian at your institution to learn more

I need to clarify something here: we're talking about a really small institute. Around 15 people, including all PhD students, senior staff and administrative staff. And they want to attract more people, for they are an excellent place, but they need better access and better tech. So for this purpose, I am the librarian. And the computer geek. And the "OK, what we can do with this...?" gal. And I want this place to shine with intelligence and creativity online as it does offline.