Another huge issue to keep in mind is that the people who are buying the $300 Dells are probably the ones who will need the most technical support. So if Apple suddenly had a zillion new users buying $300 Mac Pamphlets instead of the $1,100 Mac Book, Apple would have a lot more tech support […]
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x-eudora-setting:7818 Reply to sender attribution
You can customize the text that appears in front of the text you are quoting in a reply. Simply open a new message and paste in the command in the body of the blank message. <x-eudora-setting:7818> Then double click that link. In the box that appears, simply use these codes to create the text you […]
What I want in an email client
Giles Turnbull asks what I want in a new email client for the Mac. http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/06/what_would_you_like_from_a_new.html I use Eudora for a lot of email management. Eudora’s limits needs to be fixed: (1) More than 32,000 messages in a mailbox. (2) Personalities should be able to be renamed safely. (3) better handling of filter rules that include […]
Farewell Blosxom, Welcome WordPress!
I’ve finally completed moving away from using Blosxom for my blog, and using WordPress. I started out on Saturday morning by installing WordPress 2.03, looking at the options and methods for reading the data from Blosxom, designing a template, and then writing some scripts to manage requests that come in looking for my old blog […]
Spider writers beware of other protocols
While looking through my web server logs, I see a fair number of web spiders that are making a very bad assumption: only the http is linked from a web page. The obvious counter example is https:. A web spider needs to only follow links that are http://. You can’t simply assume if the first […]
Can’t scroll over Google Ads?
Has anyone noticed that you can’t scroll over Google Ads? Is this new? If I’m on a web page that has some Google Adsense ads, and I scroll down the page using my mouse’s scroll wheel, the page stops scrolling if I happen to go over an ad. I have to move the mouse cursor […]
National Geographic Adventure magazine
I stumbled across this page: One Day at a Time on the Five-Million-Step Program. I read the article, but at the end of the page was told to read the rest I should buy the June/July (2004!) issue of the magazine. Nice. This is what I asked the editors at the magazine: I just stumbled […]
<head> has to be on its own line?
What’s the deal with the <head> command having to be on its own line on a web page? One of my older sites is busted in Mozilla, Firefox, and Safari. It only shows the page source code, until I move the head to its own line. Ugh. I thought whitespace was irrelevant.
D-link sucks
David vs. Goliath story of the day: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
My Webloc Archiving Script
I cleaned my Powerbook’s desktop off this morning. The script is now posted at: Making Webloc Archives. My script merely reads the .webloc files, extracts the url, grabs the site’s favicon if there is noe, then uploads the link to a web site.