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Archive for August, 2005

      

Flying Spagetti Monster

I’m all for seeing things from all sides.

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005. Posted in Humor | No Comments »>

MSNBot seems to like me

Not sure what they’re up to at MSN, but their bot has decided it really likes my full thread RSS feeds. To the tune of about 13,000 requests per day for the last week or so. Which seems like a lot since that’s multiple requests for the same feeds which are not getting [...]

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

4 years in the making

It’s not so much that it took that long, but there’s been long gaps between efforts. The mission ottoman I started on about 4 years ago is finally done and in use in our family room. The woodworking has been done for about 2 years. The finish has been done for about [...]

Saturday, August 27th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | 1 Comment »>

NBC to stop trying to annoy DVR owners

NBC’s going to stop shifting programs by a few minutes this Fall. I hope the other networks follow suit. It’s just plain annoying. Of course, if the other networks don’t follow suit, this does me little good, because I don’t think I watch anything on NBC.

Thursday, August 4th, 2005. Posted in TV | No Comments »>

The Case for the Legalization of Marijuana

Or at least a succinct and short version of it. They didn’t really adequately address the key problem in my mind. Money. Most people seem to think there is a relationship between drugs and violent crime. I don’t agree. There is a relationship between money and violent crime. Because [...]

Thursday, August 4th, 2005. Posted in Politics | No Comments »>

Donate Software to the PMC

Seth’s getting a lot of great software donated for his PMC fundraising auctions. I made my humble contribution in the form of some free Turtle Dice registrations. He could still use some contributions for the Windows side — know anyone with shareware apps to contribute?

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | 1 Comment »>

Eight Years

Happy anniversary, Seth and Corinne!

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Mail.app IMAP chunk size

Anyone know if there is a way to set the chunk size Mail.app uses when fetching IMAP messages, and/or disable chunking like you can in Thunderbird?

The default behavior is really poor for attachments, because it fetches small amounts of data at a time — like 4k per request — generating a lot of unnecessary connection [...]

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>