Well, I really like my Moto S9 bluetooth headphones, but since I ordered them from some back-alley shop in California, I only got the set of earbud covers that came on them. I think that was worth a $60-70 savings, LOL.
Anyway, I used them at the gym, wore them to work, and in the middle of the day, when I took them off, I noticed they were gone. I cried. Then I searched the Internet to find a replacement. I didn't find any. Today, I looked a little more desperately, as it kind of hurt my ear to have them on without the bud cover. I found some but they cost, like, $10.
Sigh... I might just try some foam covers from other earbuds... Anyone know good alternatives? Hit me up.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
36 World of Warcraft Accounts
Geez, I thought I had a problem when I wanted to decide whether to suspend my single account to try another game.
http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gamer-juggles-over-30-warcraft-characters/1255554
Some guy has 36 accounts that he plays simultaneously. Maybe that's a good excuse for me to get that 30-inch monitor...
http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gamer-juggles-over-30-warcraft-characters/1255554
Some guy has 36 accounts that he plays simultaneously. Maybe that's a good excuse for me to get that 30-inch monitor...
TuffMail and Horde
Just in case anyone wondered. Horde is better than Alliance in World of Warcraft. kthxbye.
Oh, and I was alerted to an article on OS News about an interview with the Lead Developer of Horde. I'm using TuffMail for my mail and I'm really happy with their implementation of Horde. I normally use a client, but I'm finding the AJAX interface to work great.
I could write lots about TuffMail, and I might... but I'm working on a few things at once right now. Maybe later, or maybe I'll just come back to this. I've got a piece of paper in my wallet that I used to do my pro/con evaluation. Sort of the "idea on a napkin" thing, except I never go to Starbucks. I'd like to make that piece of paper go away.
Then there's the Team Leader at my client site. He's a mac guy, but he doesn't know anything about Mac yet. So, he asks questions to the guy that sits next to me. I try to stay out of it. But, in recent weeks he's been trying out MobileMe.
I really, really wanted to chime in and say that there's no reason to pay for all that, just because you use a Mac. But those guys have money to waste, so I'll just let them. I don't so I just use less sexy alternatives.
So, here's what happened with my mail... I went to Purdue University, got IMAP, and need it for e-mail. POP is inadequate. I need server-side filters. I like to switch computers, and clients, and all sorts of good crazy super-sexy stuff to use my e-mail. Webmail is cool, but I prefer a desktop client.
When I left Purdue, I wanted IMAP, but I picked some free provider. They failed on something important that I won't mention here. I got hooked up with FastMail, and they were doing cool stuff.
Then FastMail slowed down on adding features that were important to me, and were promised for the future. It didn't bother me much, because nobody else had them. I tried others and kept coming back.
The straws that broke the camels back was the address book and the web interface. I didn't mind the web client interface at FastMail looking like something some developer hacked together to support features of their custom-built web service. I just used a client. The address book was similarly abysmal. But, I really used e-mail to receive, rather than send, and I could remember or look up the addresses that I needed.
I decided those things were important, and I switched to TuffMail. I'm happy. I can give up the features that FastMail had that are cool.
So, here we go, I'm just going to copy my notes somewhat. I might have to clean up this post later:
Exclusive FastMail positives: proxy servers, file space / picture gallery.
Exclusive TuffMail positives: web clients, managesieve
Negatives on FastMail: Enhanced Account required for all features, have to log in to manage server-side filters, address book
Negatives on TuffMail: No real a la carte options, just more of everything, no integrated file space,
Some stuff is kind of a wash, or doesn't really matter, like saving searches as virtual folders, plus-mail addressing, sub-domain addressing, labels and custom IMAP flags.
The thing that bothers me the most about FastMail is just that they spend effort to recreate something that works well already with their web interface, and then slowly develop extra features that don't matter to me, rather than the ones I want. People are screaming for a better web interface in the forums, and they could just run Horde, and that could run along side their custom interface.
TuffMail does simple things consistently. And, at the end of the day, e-mail is simple. We stack things on top of it, and combine things with it to make it more than e-mail, but they don't need to be part of the core e-mail service. More importantly, adding those things to the core service don't add value that I need to pay for. Twenty bucks a year isn't much, but it is less than forty. That's really why I switched. I wasn't willing to pay for extra stuff just to get the few features I wanted but never came.
Oh, and GMail has great IMAP... but I don't want my stuff to belong to google.
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Oh, and I was alerted to an article on OS News about an interview with the Lead Developer of Horde. I'm using TuffMail for my mail and I'm really happy with their implementation of Horde. I normally use a client, but I'm finding the AJAX interface to work great.
I could write lots about TuffMail, and I might... but I'm working on a few things at once right now. Maybe later, or maybe I'll just come back to this. I've got a piece of paper in my wallet that I used to do my pro/con evaluation. Sort of the "idea on a napkin" thing, except I never go to Starbucks. I'd like to make that piece of paper go away.
Then there's the Team Leader at my client site. He's a mac guy, but he doesn't know anything about Mac yet. So, he asks questions to the guy that sits next to me. I try to stay out of it. But, in recent weeks he's been trying out MobileMe.
I really, really wanted to chime in and say that there's no reason to pay for all that, just because you use a Mac. But those guys have money to waste, so I'll just let them. I don't so I just use less sexy alternatives.
So, here's what happened with my mail... I went to Purdue University, got IMAP, and need it for e-mail. POP is inadequate. I need server-side filters. I like to switch computers, and clients, and all sorts of good crazy super-sexy stuff to use my e-mail. Webmail is cool, but I prefer a desktop client.
When I left Purdue, I wanted IMAP, but I picked some free provider. They failed on something important that I won't mention here. I got hooked up with FastMail, and they were doing cool stuff.
Then FastMail slowed down on adding features that were important to me, and were promised for the future. It didn't bother me much, because nobody else had them. I tried others and kept coming back.
The straws that broke the camels back was the address book and the web interface. I didn't mind the web client interface at FastMail looking like something some developer hacked together to support features of their custom-built web service. I just used a client. The address book was similarly abysmal. But, I really used e-mail to receive, rather than send, and I could remember or look up the addresses that I needed.
I decided those things were important, and I switched to TuffMail. I'm happy. I can give up the features that FastMail had that are cool.
So, here we go, I'm just going to copy my notes somewhat. I might have to clean up this post later:
Exclusive FastMail positives: proxy servers, file space / picture gallery.
Exclusive TuffMail positives: web clients, managesieve
Negatives on FastMail: Enhanced Account required for all features, have to log in to manage server-side filters, address book
Negatives on TuffMail: No real a la carte options, just more of everything, no integrated file space,
Some stuff is kind of a wash, or doesn't really matter, like saving searches as virtual folders, plus-mail addressing, sub-domain addressing, labels and custom IMAP flags.
The thing that bothers me the most about FastMail is just that they spend effort to recreate something that works well already with their web interface, and then slowly develop extra features that don't matter to me, rather than the ones I want. People are screaming for a better web interface in the forums, and they could just run Horde, and that could run along side their custom interface.
TuffMail does simple things consistently. And, at the end of the day, e-mail is simple. We stack things on top of it, and combine things with it to make it more than e-mail, but they don't need to be part of the core e-mail service. More importantly, adding those things to the core service don't add value that I need to pay for. Twenty bucks a year isn't much, but it is less than forty. That's really why I switched. I wasn't willing to pay for extra stuff just to get the few features I wanted but never came.
Oh, and GMail has great IMAP... but I don't want my stuff to belong to google.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
New Apple Notebooks
Okay, so Tuesday came and went, and Apple launched new MacBooks and MacBook Pros. I feel good about selling my machine, but I don't think I'll be getting a new one any time soon. Gots no money for that.
I wonder if that's why everyone who inquired about buying my Airport Base Station and wireless cards has been slow about getting back to me. Who knows.
I do miss using OS X, and my bluetooth mouse is kind of just sitting around, but I'll rectify those issues soon. I kind of gave up on running OS X on PC hardware, if I wanted to cripple my machine, I could just run Linux on the desktop. Sigh.
At least the 17-inch MacBook Pro might be available more cheaply in the used category soon. I'm pretty sure that's where I'm going to aim with my next notebook.
Until then, I've got a 1 GHz Duron Compaq laptop with 512 MB of RAM. It works. I can't really ask for much more than that.
I wonder if that's why everyone who inquired about buying my Airport Base Station and wireless cards has been slow about getting back to me. Who knows.
I do miss using OS X, and my bluetooth mouse is kind of just sitting around, but I'll rectify those issues soon. I kind of gave up on running OS X on PC hardware, if I wanted to cripple my machine, I could just run Linux on the desktop. Sigh.
At least the 17-inch MacBook Pro might be available more cheaply in the used category soon. I'm pretty sure that's where I'm going to aim with my next notebook.
Until then, I've got a 1 GHz Duron Compaq laptop with 512 MB of RAM. It works. I can't really ask for much more than that.
Negative Political Stuff
Yesterday, in the mail, I got a letter from a relative, basically regurgitating negative stuff about Barack Obama that has circulated on the Internet. Mostly, it is stuff about Islam and world terrorism and such. Nothing positive about his opponent.
WWJD? Is it really worth the stamp? Honestly, you can send that to my e-mail box, so I can just delete it. No need to waste the paper. We do like the relative, so there isn't any hard feelings or anything. However, lots of people misunderstand free speech. It doesn't mean that you can say whatever you want. It means that the government can't prosecute you for speaking out against it. Sigh...
My wife challenged me to write a rebuttal letter of some sort. I did write up a little something a while back, when my mom-in-law asked my thoughts on Obama and being black, and government expereience and such. It was a pretty good discussion.
I'm really torn about how propaganda influences peoples vote though. The Electoral College does plenty to negate individual influence anyway, but lots of people are voting on complete misinformation. It makes me sad.
If I bother to refute the letter, I'll probably post it up on the "blog of doom" right here.
WWJD? Is it really worth the stamp? Honestly, you can send that to my e-mail box, so I can just delete it. No need to waste the paper. We do like the relative, so there isn't any hard feelings or anything. However, lots of people misunderstand free speech. It doesn't mean that you can say whatever you want. It means that the government can't prosecute you for speaking out against it. Sigh...
My wife challenged me to write a rebuttal letter of some sort. I did write up a little something a while back, when my mom-in-law asked my thoughts on Obama and being black, and government expereience and such. It was a pretty good discussion.
I'm really torn about how propaganda influences peoples vote though. The Electoral College does plenty to negate individual influence anyway, but lots of people are voting on complete misinformation. It makes me sad.
If I bother to refute the letter, I'll probably post it up on the "blog of doom" right here.
Working out is hard work.
Today, I upped repetitions and weights at the gym. I was doing 8 sets, basically to exhaustion. We do weights *before* cardio and 9 and 10 really hurt. Holly wasn't feeling well today, but she hung tough and we did do cardio on bikes. Not much time today, since we're on our usual late schedule in the AM.
I managed to get some music on my phone and use the bluetooth headsets the past couple of days... It almost makes the workout tolerable. I'll need to make a playlist of the hardest hitting songs I can think of, hoping that will at least drive me work harder.
I haven't really been keeping track of weights or time. I'd like to get a mobile program, but I'm finding that if I can remember the weights that I use on most machines, and I just do cardio until I run out of time before I have to head to work. If anyone has a suggestion for workout tracking, weight-loss, or food intake programs for Windows Moble. (or any other platform, I'm open to switching, or using multiple devices) hit me up.
I managed to get some music on my phone and use the bluetooth headsets the past couple of days... It almost makes the workout tolerable. I'll need to make a playlist of the hardest hitting songs I can think of, hoping that will at least drive me work harder.
I haven't really been keeping track of weights or time. I'd like to get a mobile program, but I'm finding that if I can remember the weights that I use on most machines, and I just do cardio until I run out of time before I have to head to work. If anyone has a suggestion for workout tracking, weight-loss, or food intake programs for Windows Moble. (or any other platform, I'm open to switching, or using multiple devices) hit me up.
Mobile WordPress
Just wanted to write a post to say how great Mobile Wordpres is... at least on my work computer... a spare browser window allows me to type my random thoughts with minimal disruption.
I think I'll just use that for my phone, rather than being concerned about not having an iphone, or using some "compatible" client. Generic interfaces FTW.
I think I'll just use that for my phone, rather than being concerned about not having an iphone, or using some "compatible" client. Generic interfaces FTW.
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