Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://mail.google.com/mail/

I'm not internet explorer (IE) fanboy, but sometimes I'm still using IE together with firefox. When using IE, if gmail already accessed before, after sign in I often get error message as follows:

Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://mail.google.com/mail/
Operation aborted

The only workaround I found is : by clearing the IE temporary internet files (in IE7: menu Tools, delete browsing history, delete files..), and reload the gmail.

That's all. :)

postgresql ilike for non latin character

I was having problem with insensitive query of non latin character in postgresql. My postgresql version is 8.2.5, with EUC_JP encoding. However, for temporary solution, I'm using workaround as follows.

Suppose you are having table ABCD with field name: FIELD1 which might contain non latin characters, with database encoding EUC_JP. For example, to search word 'keyword' with ilike in FIELD1, use the following sql:

select * from ABCD where convert(FIELD1 ,'euc_jp','unicode') ilike '%keyword%';

that's all :)