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personal
Why doesn’t the Android Market keep us up to date?
The Android platform comes with a great market available for browsing and downloading applications. Comments are easy to read, the permissions the application is requesting are clearly explained, and installing is a snap and happens in the background. Overall it’s a breeze to use. However, it’s got a large gap in it’s [...]
Tagged AndroidYour signature matters (sometimes)
Some quick background for those who don’t live in Oregon: In Oregon we do our governmental voting by mail and we’re given the option of sticking a stamp on it and mailing it or dropping it off at any of the ballot drop boxes scattered around the counties.
What we mail back consists of the [...]
ThreadBubble going the way of the dodo
I got the chance to try out the latest version of Shredder last night which recently celebrated it’s Alpha 3 release fixing an impressive number of bugs. Among the heap of bugs is our very own bug 262319; “sort by thread fails to resort on new message.” Two weeks shy of celebrating it’s [...]
Tagged add-ons, mail, ThreadBubble, ThunderbirdThreadBubble 0.8 Released
A new version of ThreadBubble is available. Changes include:
Thunderbird 3 Support: Tested on the latest nightly and working fine. This also means a lot of the code was cleaned up and made simpler. (Thunderbird 2 still works)
Fixed a bug when sorted ascending where new messages wouldn’t sink to the bottom of the [...]
Mother’s day pie
Not that I need a special occasion to bake a tasty pie but mother’s day combined with picking 6 pounds of fresh rhubarb added up to a good excuse.
I puttered around on the internet looking for less ordinary recipes than what I was used to and came up with an idea and a recipe.
The pie [...]
My Homemade Vanilla Extract
I haven’t found much time for cooking lately but this project brought me back to the kitchen tonight. I’ve been acquiring the ingredients for about a month and finally found a suitable bottle (it was originally a bottle of Mönchshof World Classic Schwarz). I followed these instructions for the most part but I [...]
Tagged cookingDon’t Settle for Mediocrity on the Web
When I browse the web looking to purchase a service, I find there are two pretty distinct kinds of sites. One feels like it was made in the early 90’s: it’s mostly functional, almost renders correctly, and has the odd combination of distracting images and colors we thought was a good idea back [...]
Tagged open webTurns out greylisting is awesome
I used to get several hundred spam emails a day on micropipes.com. I wasn’t thrilled with having a four or five digit message count in my spam folder, but I deleted the few that slipped through each day and didn’t think about it much more. Someone else running a domain on this server [...]
Tagged mailMmmm…. scams… (part 2)
I think it must be my old age shining through but rather than go down to the meeting and cause hate and discontent I decided to repair a hole in my kitchen floor instead. As much as I enjoy awkward conversations (when I’m the instigator), it just seemed like a lot of effort – [...]
Tagged drama, grey area, o rly