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Creative e-mail use
I've set up a e-mail to blog interface using PostMan plugin. It wasn't completely simple - the script has bugs, I had trouble getting cron do what I want, things like that, but now the system works and I'll just have to fix one bug to make it work even better.
Is it of any real use, is another thing. I think situations where I have SSH connection but no web connection are rare, but in the other hand, writing with Mozilla Mail is more comfortable than writing with Mozilla browser...
24.07.2003 klo 20:05
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A very good RSS reader
I like the RSS technology, but I haven't been satisfied with various RSS feed readers I've tried (those include AmphetaDesk, NewsMonster, Syndirella and nntp//rss). Somehow each has been too complicated in every-day use and I've quickly stopped using them.
Thanks to a RSS discussion on the Spielfrieks list, I've found something better: rss2email by Aaron Schwarz. I've set it up to check my feeds three times every day - if it finds anything new, it e-mails it to me. I don't need to use any external software to read the feeds. When I'm on my computer, I've got mail reader open 90% of the time. I don't need to remember to start any other programs (as with nntp//rss, which also shows the feeds in my mail/news reader).
Simply put, the solution is perfect for me. It took some installation effort, especially as I had to hunt down and install a newer version of python (which was surprisingly easy, even though I had to compile it from the sources).
Of course, I wouldn't be the geek I am, if I didn't already have plans to improve the system. I'm thinking about web interface... Then I could offer the system as a service for other people, as well. I'll keep on thinking about that... Meanwhile I enjoy reading my RSS feeds with Mozilla Mail!
24.07.2003 klo 13:39
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Anniversary
It's our fourth anniversary today. I've got a gift for Johanna and tomorrow we'll go and have a good meal in a restaurant. It's been a good year, and even better ones will come!
(On a side note, it's also the 84th anniversary of the Finnish goverment system.)
17.07.2003 klo 08:47
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Finnish coffee mania
Finland is the world leader in coffee consumption. It's something like an average of nine cups per day per person. Which is a lot, considering that many people don't drink coffee at all. Finland must be full of caffeine addicts.
This mania of coffee drinking can be seen in various places. Today, I went shopping for groceries. Coffee was on sale - half a kilo packet of quality coffee was only 1,69 euros. Because of this amazingly cheap price (perhaps 50 cents less than usually), there was a sign that said "Only for households. No more than 10 packets/household."
And I was thinking about buying 11 packets! Darn. Then I just went on with my shopping, buying exactly one packet of different kind of coffee which cost me exactly two euros.
14.07.2003 klo 13:14
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Another PayPal fraud
Once again I'm targeted by a PayPal fraud. This time they asked me to verify my e-mail address. The URL revealed it, though... They tried to use the old trick of using the right address as a username for a fraud site, so the URL looked like this:
https://www.paypal.com:[long string of mixed characters]@some.fraudsite.com
Nice try, but I didn't fall for it. Instead I forwarded both of the messages (which made it more obvious they were fakes, why would PayPal send me two similar requests...) to PayPal spoof checkers.
13.07.2003 klo 10:16
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Pirate keyboard
Defective Yeti offers us a view to the world of computer pirates.
9.07.2003 klo 08:03
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New plugin
I needed to display the category description from the templates (because category description allows characters that the category title doesn't), but there was no template variable to do it. Therefore I needed to create my own... The result, CatDesc, can be found on my Nucleus plugins page.
2.07.2003 klo 12:54
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Plugin
I've created my first plugin for Nucleus. I wanted a list of articles with most karma and wasn't satisfied with the existing plugin. I modified it a lot and there's my first plugin: MostKarma. More information can be found at my Nucleus plugin page.
1.07.2003 klo 11:05
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Beta testing browsers
I keep on beta-testing browsers: I just installed the latest Mozilla (1.4 release candidate 3). This far I've used six different versions of Mozilla (1.2.1, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.4rc1, 1.4rc2 and 1.4rc3)... 1.4 versions have been the best, I think. Or at least I've had the least problems with them. Hopefully this latest version doesn't spoil their good reputation.
1.07.2003 klo 10:08
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