Month: January 2005
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Jabber
I’m on Jabber as jra@nella.org. I’m running my own server, and supposedly other Jabber servers are supposed to be able to contact mine and send me messages. I’m not convinced it’s really working because my test case didn’t seem to do what I expected. So if you use Jabber and want to talk to me,…
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Easter Eggs in Open Source Software
They say that the nice thing about Open Source software is that all the users are looking at the source checking it for bugs, so it will be higher quality than closed-source software. Heh. I have proof that people don’t read the code they are installing. Since the earliest widely-distributed releases of Cricket, there’s been…
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Dr Evil’s family
Austin Powers is on TV. I totally forgot about the hilarious monolouge by Dr. Evil about his family background: Dr. Evil: The details of my life are quite inconsequential. Therapist (Carrie Fisher): Oh no, please, please, let’s hear about your childhood. Dr Evil: Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving…
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Gmail continues to rock my world
I just noticed a really cool feature of Gmail. This is subtle, so hang in there with me… It, like other mail programs attempts to automatically maintain your address book for you by adding entries for addresses in mail you send. When you reply to someone who’s e-mail arrived without a real name, just an…
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Sam Spade search plugin
I use Firefox, and I like the little search box thingie in the upper left. I decided it might be fun to figure out how it works by making a search plugin for the website SamSpade.org. Sam Spade looks up whois data and other interesting things about websites, and I find myself using it from…
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A New Year’s update
Hello, all my travel-watchers! Hope you all had a good holiday season. Thanks to those of you who put me up, and those others who asked, “Where are you?” Since I last sent out an update, I’ve returned to the US from Dakar, Senegal. I made my way home by a sequence of trips that,…