06.09.04
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at 1 pm
Here’s the situation:
My hacked up GreyMatter scripts started running amuck on my Host’s server. Like “taking down the whole machine” kind of mucking. I had been on that machine since oh, 1998, so I’m sure it didn’t have a lot of security and protections that the current hosting installs have.
Anyway the new server also has a MySQL db that I can use, so I’ve now relaunched Dwelling with WordPress. It’s got lots of the cool features the kids have been talking about, and I might even start enabling them later on. But for now, a straightforward replacement for my GreyMatter stuff will do fine.
Besides, my wrists are killing me. I don’t need to start policing TrackBacks and Comments.
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05.29.04
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at 9 pm
The Timbers have now won 5 straight games! We watched tonight’s match which went into a real thriller of a sudden-death overtime. Very very cool! Portland Timbers
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This is without even trying to watch things. I did quit and relaunch mail once in the past week after some interface weirdness with the mailboxes, but things have been pretty good:
Last login: Sat May 29 00:09:39 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
magenta:~ rosso$ uptime
0:10 up 22 days, 7:30, 2 users...
Of course this also means I haven’t installed any updates in a while… I’m still at 10.3.2. I guess I should do a backup and give the ol’ software update a run.
Kinda goes against my “if it’s not broke, don’t touch it” instinct; it even overrides my “have the latest update, or at least the next to latest update” instinct.
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05.28.04
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at 10 am
After all these years… It’s on its way.
I’ve got a flash ram card and a WiFi card ready and waiting for it…
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05.24.04
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at 5 pm
It’s just silly, but I keep sitting here giggling over it…
Dino found in New Zealand volcano
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05.21.04
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yay, we’re one of the 17 key battle ground states for the next election. my vote counts more than yours does. ‘ha-ha’
pardon the lack of capitals. teleport doesn’t support the shift key yet.
(post edited to correct an unfortunate spelling of “shift”…)
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05.17.04
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at 5 pm
Yay!
SubEthaEdit is the collaborative text editor that is super cool. Imagine a single document, with multiple cursors and different people controling each cursor. I’ve talked about it—raved about it, in an earlier entry and now 2.0 is here with the polish that we hoped for rather than the feature overload we were worried about.
Mac OS X only, check it out…
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05.13.04
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at 3 pm
Everett cab driver Mark Forbes, an ex-military, ex-cop, ex-plumbing parts salesman, likes to say there’s an adventure every day in the taxi business.
What began in the wee hours of Saturday, April 10, was more. It was a big yellow odyssey.
It had been a busy Friday night, with all the usual runs to Seattle nightclubs, local bars, casinos and grocery stores.
Near the end of his 12-hour shift, a Yellow Cab dispatcher radioed Forbes, 62, to make a pickup at the Days Inn on Evergreen Way.
He pulled into the motel parking lot and saw two men emerge from a room. He looked at his watch –5:30 a.m.
The men had no luggage, so he was sure he could get them to their destination before his shift ended.
To the Sikh temple near Seattle, said the taller of the two men.
(Sikhism is a monotheistic religion, rejecting Hinduism’s caste system, founded in 15th-century India by Guru Nanak.)
The cabbie started the meter, shutting off the 1991 Chevrolet Caprice Classic’s roof vacancy light.
Forbes hadn’t the faintest idea it would take more than nine days and 2,300 miles to get back home.
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05.10.04
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at 12 pm
Amy sent this to me to help me out. I still have yet to catch a violation before an official does, which is the hallmark of understanding said rule.
Offside Rule in Football (Soccer)
To be in an offside position, a player must be on the opponent’s half of the field and closer to the opponent’s goal line than both the ball and the second-last defender (goalkeeper is considered the last defender). A player is not in an offside position if he is even with the second-to-last defender or on his own half of the field.
The player must be involved in active play by either:
- gaining an advantage by being in an offside position, or
- interfering with play, or
- interfering with an opponent
For example, if a player is in an offside position but not involved in play, he would not be offside. This is a tough call. For example, what if the onball attacker is to the right of the goal but a teammate is in an offside position to the left of the goal? You can argue that the teammate wasn’t involved in play, but you can also argue that he distracted the goalie because the goalie had to worry about the possibility of a pass and thus the attacking team gained an advantage by being in an offside position, in which case the teammate was offside. In this case, the referee’s decision might depend on whether he felt the goalkeeper was influenced by the player in the offside position.
Special Cases: a player is not offside if he receives the ball directly from a goal kick, throw-in or corner kick, even if he is in an offside position; however, once the ball is touched, the offside rule starts and if it is then played to a player in an offside position, offside may be called. A player is also not offside if he passes the ball backward, even if doing so leaves him in an offside position. However, if he is in an offside position and the ball is played back to him, then he can be called offside.
Offside Trap: When defenders intentionally move forward to try to trap an attacker who doesn’t have the ball in an offside position.
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I came across this yesterday:
http://home.insightbb.com/~n9yty1/MailEnhancer/
Its got four options that it adds to Mail:
- Show activity viewer when doing a manual mail check.
- Display a status dialog after doing a manual mail check.
- Dock icon count shows all unread instead of just inbox unread.
- Automatically update signature to match sending address
I’ve installed this at home and it works great. I’ll be adding it to my iBook’s Mail as well. The option that super rocks is the automatic choice of signatures based on the e-mail address you’re sending from. This is something that I’ve been missing ever since I switched over from Eudora on OS 9.
I actually downloaded Eudora the other day with an eye to switching back. Mail’s handling of large volumes of mail has always bugged me and the lack of ‘personalities’ or ‘profiles’ that you can switch back and forth between easily really sucks. Eudora has some other cool features like great filters and a way of letting you know if a filter hasn’t been used in a long time. Three more things I miss about Eudora:
1) In Mail and Eudora, you can hit the space bar to ‘page down’ an e-mail. That works fine and on mail you can even use shift-space bar to ‘page up’. But in Eudora, if you hit the space bar when you’re already at the bottom of an e-mail, Eudora will close the mail you’re reading and open up the next unread mail automatically. It allows you to page through your new e-mail very quickly.
2) The mail transfer menu. It was really easy to sort your mail in Eudora when the list of mail boxes was right at the top of the menu. In Mail, there’s a Move To command but it’s buried underneath the Message menu. Sucky.
3) Eudora lets you edit the subject lines of mails that you’ve received. This sounds simple, but when you’re filing things away like passwords or other important stuff, being able to change the subject from “Re: FWD: [2] Re: I Can’t Get IN” to “New Password for FTP” make it much easier to find in your mail box.
But getting back into Eudora, I realized how creaky it is. I mean, Mail may be immature, but it’s got that built for OS X feel going for it. It’s like Eudora is in maintenance mode. I’m not sure it will ever be quite as tight with OS X as Mail already is. The display on screen feels old… Is it something to do with the Mishawaka font that Eudora uses?
So far there’s no perfect solution and I’ve got enough mail in Mail.app to stick with it. For now.
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