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Why don’t I use mutt, again? Read more.

Holy wars, to some. Read more.

Close call. Read more.

But not in Thunderbird. Read more.

Broken things ahead. Read more.

Bwahahaha. Read more.

Syndicate your updates. Read more.

I work at a computer cable company and use a wireless mouse. Read more.

Alpha Five forms include a QuickFilter feature that lets you limit the current result set to records that match (or don’t match) the contents of a specific field. You can stack these filters, limiting by field after field as you dig down to the desired record set. After half a dozen filters, Alpha ends up [...] Read more.

Customer disservice. Read more.

Don’t tell me what I can now do. Read more.

Spreadsheet geekery. Read more.

And it all comes together. Read more.

Shiny. Read more.

Reading on the cheap. Read more.

Important announcement. Read more.

I can see the train of thought now. Read more.

No, I haven’t done it yet. Read more.

Down, boy. Read more.

Wait, I thought sharing was bad? Read more.

This is profound. Read more.

On drawing the wrong conclusions. Read more.

Over at FileFormat.info there is a pretty cool resource for finding Unicode characters. For example: the inverted Ohm sign. They’ve got character codes, a Java reference, raster and vector files of the character, and more. That’s a lot of data for just one character.
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A few days ago I clicked a link to an Ars Technica article and was greeted by a full-screen advertisement for Vonage. This was not much of a surprise, these commercial breaks are standard fare on many websites today. What did surprise me was the page that followed:

Maybe Vonage thought I missed their ad the [...] Read more.

I cannot fathom the chain of events that led to this limitation of Microsoft Excel 97:

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I had a bit of a problem with Thunderbird under Windows this morning. I openened it up, and was greeted with a mostly-blank screen with no buttons to speak of:

Turns out my profile was referencing some Thunderbird extensions I had mistakenly deleted. Instead of erroring out or giving me a warning, it buggered itself up [...] Read more.

Unweaving the web. Read more.

Customize your input. Read more.

Lies within lies. Read more.

Bad idea. Read more.

I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine. Read more.

If Apple sees this, it’s not going to be very happy. Read more.

Seldom necessary, always difficult. Read more.

VoIP me. Read more.

Haven’t been updating lately. Read more.

A cat, right? It’s a cat, isn’t it?

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For the less stylish among us. Read more.

I’ve updated the Subversion page on my wiki with instructions for ViewCVS. Read more.

When did CompactFlash cards get so cheap?

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Been blogging only lightly these past few days. Read more.

Potentially confusing and/or helpful.

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You know you love it. Read more.

I think this the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Read more.

Just don’t turn it 90 degrees around the Y-axis. Read more.

Miscellaneous stuff on a gray Sunday. Read more.

New stuff. Palm Wireless Keyboard. Read more.

Hack, don’t crack. Read more.

I don’t remember sending this. Read more.

Interesting things happen on the web. Read more.

Where to start? “Scripted Administration.” That’s been the phrase of the past three months of my life. Mac OS X Scripted Administration, to be more precise. Why? Who? Where? I’ll get to it. Read more.

New toy: Zaurus SL-5500. 1, 2, 3. Yeah, I did it again…
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What about… Read more.

Mostly UML. Read more.

Logical volume management is changing the way I think about storage. (Warning: it only gets geekier from here.) Read more.

Metadata! What is it? It’s data, but it’s more than that: it’s data about data. “So,” you’re asking, “why should I care?” Well, I’m glad you asked! Sit a spell, won’t you? Read more.

As I mentioned, I’m the proud owner of an 802.11b wireless networking adapter for my Palm m500. I promised I’d post about it, and who am I to disappoint? Read more.

“An application should always present a window when its Dock icon is clicked.” Does anyone else find this feature slightly annoying? Read more.

I did some scripting for work yesterday, and came up with this little snippet to ensure important scripts will run as root. Read more.

There goes the neighborhood. Read more.

Today’s gonna be a good day.
I’ve already ranted on the physical pain I experience working with Visual Basic.NET/Access. Today, my prayers are being answered. PHP and Apache are swooping down like a sort of heavenly convoy, my shining light in the darkness that is Client/Server Database.
As much as I enjoy database manipulation with PHP, I’m [...] Read more.

After an excruciating ten day long wait, I finally received all the parts for my new computer. After wrestling with a handicapped onboard bootrom, a harddrive that doesn’t seem to be bootable, and some assorted NFS problems, everything seems to be in order. (Tip: make sure rpc.statd is running on the client.) Ah, the joy [...] Read more.

I followed Mark Pilgrim’s lead and set up SpamAssassin tonight, with some help. I’ve actually been pretty lucky in the spam department, with one spam every couple days. Having a dummy account with aliases helps, plus I get to see exactly where people are getting my address from.
Here’s the lowdown on my current setup:

Mail is [...] Read more.

Just placed the orders for my new thin client setup. Read more.

So I’m taking a client/server database course this quarter. Now, I’m no stranger to working with databases. I’ve done a few projects of varying size in MySQL and PHP, most of which I enjoyed thoroughly. (Yes, I’m a database weirdo. Sue me.) PHP’s database access is straightforward and sensible: send SQL statements to the database, [...] Read more.

From “Family Tech Support,” a recent story on Slashdot:
For a month, my mother became really productive (mom’s productivity is measured in forwarded joke emails), and then, abruptly, stopped being productive at all… I sent several emails which went unanswered… The next time I heard from her was on my answering machine - “You can cancel [...] Read more.

Some of you may be experiencing problems with Bwerp.net at the moment. My provider is shuffling around some of their servers, and you may get a 503 Forbidden until your cache updates. Don’t panic.
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Not terribly interesting to most of you. Read more.

I’ve been taking class notes on my computer (and Palm m500) for quite some time now, but I’m always left with the question of how to format them so they’re actually useful later. Plain text has formatting issues, and isn’t easily malleable. HTML looks nice, but it’s hard to write on the fly without a [...] Read more.

For the next five days, my Linux machine will sit somewhere between shutting down and starting up. Read more.

I sort of stumbled across Cygwin the other day. It’s by Red Hat, but I actually like it. Cygwin gives Windows users access to many of the tools included with most Linux distributions. It’s comforting having native access to mutt, vim, bash, and ssh, on those occasions when I need to boot into Windows. I [...] Read more.

As a follow-up to my last post, here’s a catalog of some interesting apps I’ve found for my Palm m500. Read more.

Yeah, my productivity on the Palm m500 just went to Zero. Read more.

Tim O’Reilly has a very well thought-out and informed article on piracy over at OpenP2P.com. He says many good things about the benefits of the P2P world and what has been labeled as “piracy”, the desire for users to have immediate access to entertainment, books, and the like, and the willingness of users to pay [...] Read more.