Jerry Seinfeld on Exercise
I found Jerry's SeinLanguage book in my bookshelf a while back and I'm reading through it, here and there. This made me laugh tonight, so I thought I'd share...
Family Force 5
Cpanel Web Host and IMAP Email Filtering
I wish I would have found this very helpful post a long time ago, but such is life, I suppose. I've been trying to figure out a good way to do server-side filtering on my cpanel-based IMAP server for quite a while now, but hadn't found anything official. I wrote some custom exim filters that my last web host was gracious enough to let me put in place, but that was a little hackish, since it required a good-natured web-hosting admin.
Using GMail Hosted With Your Hosted-Elsewhere Website
I fought this stupid thing for a good few days with no luck (and loss of sleep, etc.) and I finally found the solution.
Moving Moving Parts
As posted previously, it's been a good 2 years with vortexhost.com, but I'm feeling the need to get more and possibly spend less. Now, the thing that is not negotiable with all of this is my e-mail. I can stand downtime on my website every once in a GREAT while, but if I am ever inconvenienced by e-mail problems, I'll be looking for a new solution within the next hour.
Apple’s Exceptional Attention to Detail
My most favoritest headphones just died on me recently. They were cheapo Jensen behind-the-head headphones, but they had amazingly good sound and fit me perfectly (like comfortable, broken-in shoes). I used them with my iPod, and everything else. *sniffle* But alas, one side of the stereo headphone has stopped working entirely (which sort of defeats the purpose of "stereo", doesn't it?) and the faithful Jensen headphones now reside in a landfill in MA somewhere. So I was getting all ready to go on a conquest for new headphones. Then I realized that my iPod nano came with Apple-sanctioned mini-headphones that I'd never even opened. I tried them out today and was once again impressed with Apple's attention to detail and quality. The headphones actually do have good sound, and has really cool little details that make it stand out. Awesome.
You Are Here
Warning: a brain dump followeth:
Hello, I am an Open Source Developer
Zack Rusin's blog post from a week ago really resonated deep within me on a couple of points. His post, titled "Disappointing", was written in response to some negative feedback he got from some mis-guided souls who were commenting on one of his earlier posts about some very impressive Qt graphics results he'd shown. While blog-commenters behaving badly is not something new, certainly, nor is one (very) talented Open Source developer having to set said folks straight, that's not what caught my eye. I was truly impressed with the benchmarking results that Zack reported with Qt, compared to some of the other toolkits, but that's not what caught my eye either. What jumped out at me most was his definition of self and purpose, if you'll forgive the generalization:
SUSE 10.1 On A Powerbook
So, no, it's not nearly as easy as it should be; it's not nearly as easy as it is in kubuntu; and it has consumed the last few days of my life. But I've gotten things working for the most part and since I've been utterly unable to find any help on ye olde 'net about the problems I faced, I'll post some of my pain and learnings here...
Blogging From My Treo
This would be a test, then, of wordpress, plogit, and manual dexterity of man hands and really tiny keyboard buttons!!