Category: Life in General

At some point, in the most probably distant future, someone will stumble upon these ramblings and wonder what sort of maniac would leave such entries as these, mine. But for the present, as my readership exists solely of myself and Opera’s refresh button, I shall conclude my Chronicles of Riddick(ulous) : The Quest for One Good Camera. That is to say that I hope this is the conclusion of said Chronicle, because I have invested enough of my time on this planet on it already. The Kodak DX7440, combined with a free 256M PNY SD card, and a $20 coupon at my local Staples has declared itself as the most eligible bachelor. Thus far, I am very impressed with the Read more…

I have learned today that, despite what you might think, using an aluminum propane camping grill is not a good option for disposing of a large stack of paper. What you will find is that: – there is a LOT of smoke from said approach and your neighbors might be seen peering from afar at you – you will severely warp the grill of said camping grill – your clothes will smell like smoke and your teenage daughter and wife will complain that you stink – you will have an appreciable mess to clean up from all of the half-burnt paper and ashes, which don’t simply disappear on their own – you won’t actually be able to burn all of Read more…

Maybe I’m just feeling melancholy today. Maybe I’m just frustrated by having invested literally more than a dozen hours into researching what the best digital camera would be for my family, and still don’t know which one to get or where to get it from. Maybe I’m burnt out from work-without-vacation-days-off for quite a while. Maybe I’m just tired from not having slept consistently or well for a while. Maybe I’m frustrated by my career path. Maybe I’m suffering paralysis from prosumer over-analysis of the available camera choices. Maybe I’m dreading going out into the mad sea of almost-Christmas consumerism, cringing from the very thought of the fighting with traffic, unavailable items, checkout lines, ad nauseum. Maybe I’m frustrated at Read more…

Just to answer my own question, sort of, I’ve found this. which turns out to be very useful. It’s not quite as automatic as I would like, but it seems to work. In case the page is moved/removed/whatever, I’ll paste some of it here… Assumptions – that you know how to log in to CPanel – that you know how to use Outlook, or know how to configure your Email client based on my descriptions of using Outlook, to add an IMAP account – for these examples, the LunarPages account name is lpaccount and password is lppassword ; your domain name will be mydomain.com ; I’ll do my best to keep those colors used throughout this text to highlight where Read more…

After a good couple of days of research, I’ve decided to take a chance on vortexhost.com. Unfortunately, I could not find any feedback on the webhost-reviewing sites about them, which doesn’t help put my mind at ease. But in the end, the really good comments I’ve read in vortexhost.com’s forums, combined with the really quick and professional replies to the e-mails I’ve sent Justin Reel (the admin of vortexhost) won me over to at least give them a try. They offer a 14-day money-back period, so here’s to hoping that I won’t need to see if I can get my money back. This is the first time that I’ve ever wanted to leave my e-mail on my webhost. Previous to Read more…

So, I’m tired of having things sort of work and sort of not sometimes with regards to my web hosting company and e-mail. In researching for webhosts, I’ve found some interesting comments from others, most notably that most people start off with web hosts searching for the best price (like me–currently using hachour.net for their really cheap prices), and then after becoming frustrated with the lousy service and support and unprofessionalism, become willing to pay money to not have to deal with it. That’s me. If you know me, then you know that I am currently in the running for the top 10 cheapest individuals in the world. However, I am now willing to pay (as little as possible) for Read more…

I realize most won’t care about this, but it’s an encouragement to me nonetheless. Adriaan has kindly accepted my new memofile conduit into kpilot’s CVS repository!! =:) I need to fix it up some as soon as I get a chance and make it kde-compliant for translations, etc., and I still need to get my hand-drawn UML diagrams into a tool and into CVS to go with the code, so those are the next 2 things on my todo-list. Speaking of UML tools…. Umbrello does a very nice job of reverse-engineering my C++ classes, but it does a lousy job with drawing the diagrams. For methods that call other methods internally (you know, like just about every method in the Read more…

Wow, been lax lately on keeping this up to date. My kpilot memofile conduit has been released upon an unsuspecting world. And as of yet, I’ve only heard back from Adriaan about it. =:/ Guess I was hoping for someone else (other than me) to actually care about it. I guess I’ll get tons of feedback as soon as Adriaan includes it in kpilot proper and people have translation problems. =:/ DOH! I just realized that I only send my announcement to kde-pim, and not also kdepim-users. Now rectifying that. Also, the camera that we got all excited about getting from Office Max on Black Friday has turned out to be less than the best camera in the world. We Read more…

I should have known better, but I dove straight into code with my kpilot memofile conduit. To be fair, I had no clue about kpilot’s code base or classes, so it wasn’t a waste of time or anything. It was necessary, and now I have a decent understanding of how things work within kpilot. But I reached a point in my conduit where the code needed to be designed/architected, not just thrown in, so I took a break from coding for a day and looked at design. I used umbrello (kde’s UML tool), and it does a fairly nice job. My only complaint is that it doesn’t do live round trip code syncing/generation, but I due to the fact that Read more…

I actually had this done 3 days ago, but forgot to say so…. My kpilot memofile conduit now copies and saves all memos from my Palm (Clie) to a selected directory as files, the same way gnome-pilot’s memofile conduit does. That is all.