October 06, 2004
Italian is hard.
I downloaded a program that will let me check my Yahoo mail using my POP mail client on my Mac. I'd found one for PC, but nobody had ported it to Macintosh.
I found a Mac app that does the same thing, but the pre-compiled version is in Italian. I know enough French to puzzle out a few functions, but not enough to actually bother with it.
Cool thing is, if I actually got it configured, I bet it would run happily in the background forever, and I wouldn't have to deal with its Italian-ness at all.
Maybe I'll play with it more later.
In other news, Barb and I are coming to Dallas! We're gon' have some fun this weekend! We're going to B&G's wedding. It's going to be GREAT! I'm so excited for them.
I'm probably even going to be moved to song.
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June 05, 2004
Technology rules.
Tonight, I taught my mom how to wardrive. She rules.
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October 02, 2003
This deserves a story all its own...
All the crazy monkey animated .GIFs you could ever need.
That's even cooler than the Hampster [sic] Dance.
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August 01, 2003
Check out the cool...functionality!
Hey hey hey! Me an' my main damie Tommy installed a new instance of my web site today, correcting the story post dates, and all the image links! Note the Stories Archive which is now browse-able by date. Now I'm going to try to find a good way to browse by topic. For now, use the Search function available here.
So, now, you can browse my site with extra MAJESTY!
Consummate V's are scheduled for the next major revision. Go watch Trogdor for allusion referents.
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July 29, 2002
ASCII Art Is Cool.
Monday, July 29, 2002
This is my family on the top of a mountain in Red River, New Mexico.
ASCII art is neat. Want to make your own?
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July 16, 2002
RIP Eudora.
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
*sniff*
It's a sad day. Today, I lost a good friend. No, not a human friend...a computer friend. My loyal sidekick. My protector from macro viruses. My messenger. My trusty email program, Eudora, crashed on me one too many times, and I've kicked her to the curb.
I wish it hadn't come to this. I'm pretty good with the computers, and I could not figure out a) why she started crashing and b) how to make her stop. After leaving the program minimized for a while, if I came back in and tried to read a message, I'd get a runtime error.
I Googled for a solution.
I reinstalled Eudora.
I reinstalled WinXP.
No dice.
This is terribly hard for me! I loved that Eudora just worked so much better than that Outlook and Outlook Express nonsense. Yes, those are the ones that everybody used...but I liked using something different. Mostly because I knew how it worked inside and out, and partly because I knew I'd be way less susceptible to viruses...but there was definitely a streak of non-conformism in there.
(I'll try to keep my rants in nice blockquoted parentheticals, so you nice people can ignore them if you want.)
But, she stopped doing the job. Crashed too much. Stopped letting me page from email to email with the spacebar. Started getting kludgy managing a lot of filters. Wanted me to pay more money for upgrades. Started maximizing itself whenever it felt like checking mail, interrupting what I wanted to be reading at the time.
(This last is a nigh-unforgivable sin. Lee's Rule of Operating System Etiquette No. 1: The User Is God. The User gets to look at WHATEVER THEY WERE LOOKING AT, and if the computer has a problem that requires the user's attention, it may ask quietly for guidance instead of STEALING THE FOCUS AND DEMANDING IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. So let it be written. So let it be done.)
So? What's a guy to do?
I'm picky. Yes, I want a perfect email client. I want it to be powerful, and flexible, and unobtrusive. I would prefer it be Free (both as in "Free speech" and "free beer"), but I'm willing to pay for a quality product (but I had better get "free (beer) upgrades"). So what did I do? I'm auditioning new programs. Pegasus was supremely flakey. Microsoft's options are just not options. So I found this program called The Bat! that a friend of mine uses. It's called The Bat!
It'll be like any new relationship. A getting-to-know-you period where I stub my toe lots.
(Like the fact I can't check for new email with Control-M. Alt-F2? Whose stupid idea was that? I can't do that with one hand! What's the matter with you people?!) And the non-modal dialog boxes. God, I hate non-modal dialog boxes. (Non-modal dialog boxes are the ones that come up and prevent you from doing anything else in the program you're trying to use until you dismiss them. The variety I'm whining about right now appear over ALL PROGRAMS YOU TRY TO USE...like right now, I'm staring at my new hussy's "Moving Messages..." process thermometer while typing this, wondering what UI Jedi was responsible for this little disaster...)
But, maybe, at the end, I'll have a new digital friend. Or another lame thing to rant about on my web page. Ehh...go figure.
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