I’m back home from my journey to Warsaw, struggling today to configure me email so that I could continue using Microsoft Outlook together with my new Gmail account. Besides its nice web interface, Gmail offers both POP and IMAP protocols, each with its own idiosyncrasies. Of the two, IMAP is obviously the more attractive option, but it is rather new, and for whatever reason I couldn’t use it for the default mail account in Outlook. All the tweaking has taken me the better part of the day. The good news is that all email is firmly being taken care of and I will start replying to messages as soon as I’m ready with these configuration experiments.

To summarize the Warsaw week, the Skalski exhibition at the Polish Army Museum turned out to have ended some weeks previously, despite the fact that the information about it is still available at the museum’s website. The visit wasn’t a waste of time, though. The museum has a sizable collection of armour, artillery and aircraft in its open-air display. This includes such interesting exhibits as the Yakovlev Yak-9, Ilyushin Il-2, and Petlyakov Pe-2, a comprehensive array of Soviet World War II armour or an enormous shell from the German Dora railway cannon. Sadly, the aircraft in particular were visibly affected by the long-term exposure to the elements and therefore in rather derelict state. The indoors part of the exhibition was, in my opinion, the weaker part of the museum, walking the visitor through an endless array of uniforms, weapons and paintings illustrating the many wars that the Poles fought throughout the centuries. No doubt expertly prepared but after a while rather monotonous. However, the overall impression was positive and the museum worth visiting.

[Photo: Zeke-PL, through Flickr]