Monthly Archives: January 2008
Unix and Literacy
Had a conversation (well, via email, but that counts, right?) about the importance of command line literacy -- things you can do via the command line in Linux that you just can't do via the GUI -- which motivated me to dig up these two pieces: Unix as an element of literacy, and The Elements [...]
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Lessons learned...
Two lessons in this story... 1) Trying to take revenge out on your employer for being fired is a bad idea to begin with, but you really wind up looking dumb if it turns out you weren't going to be fired in the first place. Oops.
2) For the love of goodness, people, make backups! Nothing [...]
Automatic BCC'ing with KMail
One must-have feature (for me) in any mail client is the ability to automatically BCC an address with outgoing mail. I use this to log all my outgoing mail so that
I can verify that mail was sent, for troubleshooting purposes.
I can have a record of my correspondence in case I ever need to show that, [...]
Four years!
Holy cats. Looking at the left-hand side of my blog, I see that I first set WordPress up almost four years ago for this blog. January 28, 2004.
I've actually been blogging longer than that -- I ran a short stint with Slashcode, Geeklog, and Blosxom (respectively, not all at once...), but WordPress stuck, and has [...]
Giving KMail another shot
Sometimes, you find an application that "just works" for you, and that's it -- no further exploration required. For instance, after I got Vim figured out years ago, I've had very little need or motivation to really examine other text editors. (Excepting writing articles comparing text editors...) I've also been really happy with Amarok, WordPress, [...]
Gmail feature request
Google has several products I use daily and hate to think of life without: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google Notebook.
I spend the most time in Gmail, and I dearly wish that Gmail was better (totally) integrated with Reader and Notebook -- in particular, I wish there was an easy way to take an [...]
KMail, IMAP, and GMail