Where’s the peanut butter?!

windows mobile 5 is basically awesome but what’s with the pocket outlook imap integration? I configured the client to keep the past 1 day of mail but it behaves as if that sets its lookback tolerance for messages to download without also purging mail older than that from the device. this fits in the class of “annoying but surprisingly hard to fix” because the problem appears when i’m away from my computer (when I use my pocketpc). I wouldn’t seriously mind if I had to manually purge old messages on my device but I need to be by a computer to check whether that actually deletes the mail out of my account or just off my device.

it’s because of hardcore problems like this that I feel no irony as I type this message out on my phone, on the bus while T is belting out “Hustler!” on my headphones. but in my version instead of “19 - I got a fifty thousand dollar car” it goes “29 - I got a partial-zero-emissions car.” this is the NEW new jack, y’all.

But could a Replacements reunion tour be in the works? This link from
my sister is helping me href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/30/music.replacements.reunion.ap/index.html">keep
hope alive!

hooray! I finally got mail working on my phone again! since switching off tmobile’s $20 internet plan (which was always too expensive but which I had to sign up for to get a discount on my last phone) to their $6 unlimited gprs plan (which I *highly* recommend since i’m still getting edge speeds on it) my mail has been on the fritz. the problem turned out to be that in a burried settings dialog I had it set up to use a connection profile which I have not set up at all. this was frustrating because as far as I could tell my mail settings were right and my connection settings were right, but I could find no way to specify the link indicating which connection settings my mail profile should use. taking a cue from its big brother, the default settings for a new account in pocket outlook are “use the settings which the user has never configured and are sure to not work.” erg. more good news: I learned that my mailserver supports imap! this effectively solves my “how should I access my mail remotely?” problem. yay!

Greasemonkey is surely
the goo that binds the web together. Cory (who is going through a
British Invasion right now) just mentioned a movie he’d seen on the
Stones a while back - href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065780/">Gimme Shelter. I
looked it up in IMDb and thought “I’d like to add this to my NetFlix
queue” and immediately thought “there should be an easier way to go
from an IMDb movie page to getting that movie into my NetFlix queue!”
One quick search through href="http://www.userscripts.org/">userscripts.org and I find href="http://www.userscripts.org/scripts/show/573">Netflix Links in
IMDb. Now all my titles in IMDb contain links to search for the
title in Netflix. Ahh - Greasemonkey, take me away!

Welcome to the 21st century - you’re going to have to href="http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#single-file-checkout">wait
another hundred years if you think the state of the art in open
source RCS should support checking out a single file, though. How is
this not the stupidest idea ever? Wait - the stupidest idea ever is
that it
wouldn’t be that hard but nobody has ever asked for it. Yeah,
sure, on both counts.

I clocked in a 26 on the href="http://www.positscience.com/programs/brainspeed_next.php">brain
speed profile test, which means I am much more likely to engage in
online tests than the average 30 year old.

I spent last weekend at sunny, beautiful Whistler with Tanya and a
great group of friends - most of whom I’d never ridden with before but
all of whom surprisingly had a great time. If you don’t snowboard it
may be hard to appreciate this but it’s easy to throw a group together
and have something not really click - somebody’s always wanting to
ride really hard/easy or fast/slow and somebody (ok, probably me)
winds up moderately annoyed with the mix. But this weekend we threw a
bunch of strangers together and - gasp! - boarders and two-plankers
and it all just worked. Like Hannibal says - I love it when a plan
comes together!

Anyway - it was Friday night and we were rockin the xaraoke on my href="http://xboxmediacenter.de/">XBox Media Center (note: no
connection to Windows
Media Center) and I showed John href="http://www.rockbox.org/">rockbox on my href="http://www.iriveramerica.com/support/hd/h100.aspx">iriver
h120 when I had to ask myself, why can’t I just leave well enough
alone? Why do I have this endless urge to throw away hour after hour
hacking my devices, researching new ways I can break them (or at least
waste my time on them) and loading non-standard firmware on them? I
wish I knew the answer.

After we got back to Seattle, it was back to work on my href="http://www.seattlewireless.net/LinksysWrt54g">wrt54g and
trying to get WPA to work in href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php?link=ddwrt">dd-wrt…

Sweet - a hands-on exhibit of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood is href="http://upcoming.org/event/63438/">coming to the Seattle
Children’s Museum and they have an href="http://www.thechildrensmuseum.org/program-special.asp">“adults-only”
night. Be there or be not my neighbor.

I’ve tried two approaches to email and reading it remotely:

• Some big fat GUI (Outlook, etc.) stores the mail. If I want to
  access it remotely, I fire up a Remote Desktop connection and use
  that. This seems like overkill to me and I dislike it since I
  frequently don’t want or have the fast internet connection for loads
  of image caching when all I want is to read some email messages.
• Some trim CLI (gnus in xemacs) stores the mail. If I want to
  access it remotely, I fire up an SSH connection and use that. This
  hits the bandwidth level I’m after, but there are too many things I
  don’t know how to do in gnus that I honestly don’t think I’ll spend
  the time to learn and don’t feel I should be without (like easy,
  effective filtering or export/import).

So I think what I’m after is some way to have two applications access
the same mail backend. If I could, say, use Thunderbird to read mail
while I’m sitting at my computer and pine when I’m connected over ssh,
that would be splendid. But can I do this? Or what is the
recommended setup? I’m positive Linux users deal with this all the
time, right? Or do they all just use pine (or whatever) exclusively?

Cool - I href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=38898">just
read that my new phone from t-mobile supports 802.11g. For some
reason it ships with the wifi functioning at 802.11b for some strange
reason. You just need to add one reg key to g-ify it:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINECOMMTNETWLN1PARMS
	dot11SupportedRateMaskG	REG_DWORD 0x8