major gnus breakthrough! today i got gnus’ imap and smtp support rolling at work. since it’s sending through smtp this means the sender/recipient aliases of anyone i send mail to would be broken and since i don’t know how to support anything but plaintext, every thread i touch will become plaintext - two behaviors that would probably make me veerrry unpopular over mail. but it works! yes, i do work on office, why do you ask?
Here’s a notepad quirk that had stumped me for a bit
recently. Sometimes, “Go To Line” (ctrl+g) doesn’t work and View >
Status Bar is disabled. Why? This isn’t documented anywhere, but it
has to do with whether Word Wrap is turned on. I have a hard time
thinking of a good reason for this (lines should be treated logically
and have no relationsihp to the visual representation on screen with
wrapping), but that’s where the behavior comes from.
This coming Saturday, June 4, Tanya and I will be running in the
Seattle Race for the Cure to raise money for breast cancer research.
If you’ve got some money burning a hole in your pocket (or even if you
don’t) it would great if you pledged
pledge will be fully refundable if I don’t finish at least in the top
10 for my demographic group (which may be increasingly refined without
notice). Or pledge
Thanks!
Andre 3000 says “Ice cold” - I say Frozen Meats! You know you love
demo so come out to The
Sunset this Wednesday for Chix with Stix #4. Ladies from Fighting
Shy and the Kegels will also be pounding the skins.
How is it that of three bands playing Chix with Stix, only the one
that is made up exclusively of engineers or scientists does not
have a webpage?
Eye for a Guy, Season
2 is under way and our favorite contender,
Lo, is the darling of
press and
Is there any stopping the Steamroller of love? Tune in Wednesdays (in
Singapore) and find out!
Windows has a feature to sync your clock with internet time servers.
I know this because I’ve done it at home and now I’m trying to set
that up on some of my computers at work but I’m having trouble. When
I double-click the clock in my system tray, there’s no tab for syncing
with Internet Time, but sc query w32time tells me the service
is running. What’s going on?
provides a document explaining the time service and how it is
administered inside domains, linking to
Microsoft whitepaper on the Windows Time Service. Computers joined
to a domain will typically have their clocks synchronized by the
domain controller (all the computers will be within 2 seconds of each
other or, on a larger domain within 20 seconds of each other). Had I
run net time instead of querying the service with
sc, I would see that indeed my computer clock is, indeed,
syncing to a local domain controller. If I wanted to use some NIST
server it appears I would run net time
/setsnp:time-nw.nist.gov to update the time server and then
restart the service with net stop w32time and net start
w32time. But I can also check the accuracy of my clock by calling
WWV at 303-499-7111. WWV ticks at one second intervals, reads other
weather data, and chimes when the time is exactly now. It
turns out my clocks are exactly precise already, so I’ll run net
time /setsntp with no server setting and restart my w32time
service to restore the default settings.
Oh - and the “Internet Time” tab available on my “Date and Time
Properties” dialog that appears when I double click the clock on my
computer at home shows up there because that computer isn’t part of a
domain.
+ Solaris 9 = vatican.va.
And as long as thou shall not be smitten for spamming the Pope, you’re
looking for
For the better part of the past hour I’ve been harassed by someone who
keeps calling but when I pick up the phone, there’s no one there. The
caller hasn’t hung up, my phone is just tied up. And I dare not hang
it up again because I know it’s just going to start ringing again if I
do. The plot thickens though since I can tell from the caller ID that
it’s my sister. My mom has recently had knee surgery and I don’t know
if she may have some information that I don’t, so when I finally SMS
her, I show some delicacy: “yo - fizzle that shizzle or quit calling
me!”. A few minutes later I get a message to “pls call me at
home 123 456 7890″. It turns out she’s really just after the free
long-distance she’s grown accustomed to with her (work) cell phone,
and it happens to be on the fritz. I think she knows I’ll tell her
about the Magician, and XDA III if she calls me so rather than finding
someone who can help her fix her - find the person who can help
advance the quest for the replacement.
Speaking of Elaine Bluth - USA Today is currently hosting a poll where
you can tell them to
producing Arrested Development. I doubt this is FOX Broadcasting
planning central, but it can’t hurt to try. Arrested Development has
got to be the best show on TV so please vote, OK?
The company my friend Hamoudi helped found,
week with their SMS Sender service. The intent feels similar to a
Word’s mail merge but for SMS and with scheduling capabilities and it
looks cool -
out. I am assured that it will only be used for good and NOT for
SMS spam 
Congratulations Hamoudi!
When capalert
has this to say:
Sin City … tends to remind me of the paintings in which a
gaggle of demons dance and prance about a boiling cauldron, shrieking
with glee as they toss soul after soul into the cauldron of Hell,
cauterizing any veins of escape.
Frank Miller has to be a lot happier with this than
2.