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Yearly Archives: 2003
Disguise Your E-Mail on Web
This article, Why Am I Getting All This Spam?, is a good report on SPAM and anti-SPAM measures. To boil it all down: Don’t put your e-mail address on public web spaces (like blogs.) Instead disguise:
like this:
larry at aol dot com
People can figure it out, but the robots won’t.
Poor [email protected]. This posting is probably going to get him some SPAM. Sorry Larry.
Farewell to Stromness
A nice song to play at a wedding or funeral.
Composer’s Note
The Yellow Cake Revue takes it name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and concerns the threat of the proposed uranium mining to the economy and ecology of the Orkney Islands which islanders are determined to fight, down to the last person.
Stromness, the second largest town in Orkney (pop. 1500), would be two miles from the uranium mine’s core, and the centre most threatened by pollution. Yesnaby is the nearby clifftop beauty spot under whose soil the uranium is known to lie. — Max Davies
Canon Powershot A70
While I researched it, I feel like I got lucky with this purchase. Found this review after I had made the purchase. The camera is much smaller than I thought it was going to be, and it feels much better engineered than the Kodak. The A70 still has the power of 4 AA batteries. The right “hand grip” allows the extra two batteries to fit.
Danny observed immediately that the power button on the Canon will last much longer than the one on the Kodak. iPhoto on the iMac immediately recognized the camera and offered to import all of the pictures… just like the commercial.
Vince Guaraldi
From a story about the making of the music behind a Charlie Brown Christmas:
In 1962, Guaraldi and his trio–which then included Bailey and Budwig, who was about to quit the band and move to Los Angeles–recorded their own album titled Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, which spawned the Grammy-winning jazz-pop hit “Cast Your Fate to the Wind.” The tune is recognizably Guaraldi’s–the sound of a self-proclaimed “reformed boogie-woogie” pianist fusing his cool-jazz leanings with his Afro-Cuban fetishes.
A Letter to the CEO of Kodak
To:
Daniel A. Carp
Chairman and CEO
Kodak Corporation
Dear Mr. Carp,
I am seeking to have my camera repaired by Kodak free of charge. I believe the micro-switch inside the camera was poorly designed and not meant to last after thousands of on/off slides by a human thumb. An explanation follows.
I have enjoyed using my Kodak DC280 camera for two years. Recently the power switch quit working. It just “went loose.” It seemed that something inside was broken. When I took out the batteries, a small piece of plastic fell out.
What happened?
A human thumb turns on the camera by sliding a power switch to the right. The power switch slide (which seems strong and very well engineered) pushes a tiny piece of plastic inside the camera which is part of a micro switch.
That tiny piece of plastic is what broke off in the attached photo (taken with my brother’s Kodak digital camera.)
I contacted customer service and talked to a very nice customer service rep. However, she told me that Kodak’s policy for digital camera repair is to charge an upfront, flat fee of $135. There would be additional shipping, parts, and labor fees. She sounded embarrassed to admit this could add up to almost half the price of a new camera or more.
I told her I thought this was a manufacturing defect, and she said the policy still applies, but I could write a letter to her supervisor. I decided to write you because this kind of policy can drive away loyal customers. My first gut reaction was that if I had to buy another camera, I would buy Sony. But I’d rather see Kodak win. (I also buy Apple, Jeep, and Tivoli Audio.)
Please share this information with the Kodak digital camera engineers and also customer service. I hope you agree Kodak should stand behind internal parts if they have been inadequately designed.
Please stay in the consumer electronics business and keep improving your products. Many of us like to support American engineering and innovation, but quality and service have to back it up, not drive us away.
Sincerely,
Jeb Cashel
Color Codes on Webmonkey
Here is a good guide to HTML color codes that you can use when changing your MovableType stylesheet.
Webmonkey | Reference: Color Codes
Muddy Jeep
MCC and I got covered with mud sitting in the back seat when KC decided to take the family off roading….
View the Mud
My First Sendmail
[Update: 6/20/2005. With 10.3.9 sendmail is configured to run “Automatic” (vs On or Off). It just works w/ no configuration or fixes required. So comment notifications worked right away when I moved to the G3 running OS X 10.3.9.]
Finally was able to get sendmail running thanks to Mathew Butch. (Sendmail is disabled by default on OS X.) This allows MovableType’s auto-notification to work. George would be proud.
From: System Administrator
Date: Sat Apr 19, 2003 7:46:35 AM US/Eastern
Subject: Test to [email protected]
using the mail command in terminal window.
Note to self: mv command did not work until Developer Tools were installed…
Testing Sendmail
Enabled SendMail to see if notification will work out of Movable Type.