March/2005Things Iove this week, edition 4Posted Wednesday, March 23rd 2005 @ 10:41PM :
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The thermal coffee pot I've been using. Keeps my coffee hot all day. No exaggeration. Poured a cup at 3pm today, and it was still steaming. Wonder of modern day science. I think that's the only thing I love this week. Uhhhhh, yeah. That's everything. I now go to bed, to make sure I can wake up at 4:30am to make my flight to SF. I am a scheduling madman. New life mantraPosted Monday, March 21st 2005 @ 3:29PM :
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As Naia is trying to drag me upstairs after lunch today, I say to her "Sorry kiddo, Daddy has to go back to work!" Her response: "No work, Daddy. Play. Plaaaaay." Wise beyond her years. Things I love/hate this week, edition 3Posted Friday, March 18th 2005 @ 3:07PM :
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Adding ‘hated' items to the list this week, because once in awhile I'd just like to throttle the general population at large. No offense if you're part of it. With that said, annoyances this week:
People that don't know how to use email.
Learn to communicate properly via written word, please. Your top posting is wasting the time of everyone who reads from the top of the page to the bottom (99.9% of the US population) and shows that you never bothered to outgrow your newbie habits.
Quoting should be used for quoting a line you're about to reply to, not for re-documenting yet another full copy of the email in the thread, and all 20 replies back in the message. Use a standard ‘>' or ‘ | ' to indicate a quote. Don't use initials - that's disgusting, and not easily parsable for mail clients that visually separate quotes by color.
MS: Here's an example of someone incorrectly thinking
MS: that their quoting style is spiffy and unique!
Email is a communication medium. Why needlessly make it so difficult for others to do so? Quit being so lazy.
SpamCop.
Recent blacklisting policies just further demonstrate that SpamCop has no real concept of how smtp works. If you're using them to filter your email, there is a good chance you're missing mail from valid senders. RFC lines that use the word "MUST" aren't ‘recommendations'. People that follow RFC on envelope-sender bounces aren't automatically spammers. Wake up.
The spelling of the word "Lose".
I make spelling errors quite a bit -- but there is something about ‘lose' that nails everyone - from 12 year olds, to English professors. "I'm loosing interest, you looser!"
It kills me. KILLS.
Ok, onto the good stuff: Faith No More Came up randomly on the ipod early this week. Whisked me back into 8th grade. "Zombie Eaters" is fantastic. I had forgotten. Perl regexp debugging I always forget this pragma exists. Having a problem with a regexp not doing what you think it should? Add to your script: use re ‘debugcolor'; Bad ass. Good text formatters Par is great for cleaning up the poorly formatted mail of others (read up), as well as your own. In particular, "par w72qrg" is quite delicious. Perltidy. Add "-nola -sbl" to your .perltidyrc, rock and roll. (It still does a couple of silly things, but in general, I can just dump a bunch of code out of my brain without regard for "looks", and it is auto-magically transformed.) Even better, vim key bind both par and perltidy, and I'm in text formatting heaven. map ^^ {!}par w72qrg<CR>
vmap ^^ !par w72qrg<CR>
vmap ,,^ !perltidy<CR>
nmap ,,^ !!perltidy<CR>Grunt. Things I love this week, edition 2Posted Thursday, March 10th 2005 @ 4:36PM :
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LeisureTown. This superb comic closing was a dark, dark day. It's back now, years later, in its original super-saracam-dripping format. Huzzah! X-Cygwin. I don't normally use Windows. This is nearly making it tolerable for me on the laptop. It's cheaper than eXceed (it's free, of course), and I can run GnuCash while I'm sitting on my butt in front of the tv. cdb. I never really think about it, and that's why I like it. Patched some qmail servers late last night with a valid rcpt to: whitelist hack, which reads it's whitelist from a cdb. No more bounces to invalid addresses, queues are quiet and small, customer quotas aren't filling up with quarantined spam, and we're checking about 70-100 rcpts a second without blinking. So beautiful, it nearly makes me cry. Lbdb. God, I love synced data. Palm .pdb plug in? ++ to that. Asterisk. Yeah, if you're reading this, I've probably already told you how rad it is. Setting up a development phonepost gateway here at home and integrating it into my existing, personal Asterisk server sounded difficult before I did it. Jeez, that was easy. I love you, Asterisk. Eggrolls. My god these are delicious "high-quality, reasonably-priced frozen Asian products." I need to go ride a bike, and soon. I can't stop eating them. Damn you, Costco, and your 18 pack. |
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