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Capturing the Moments Of Your Life

by mitch on April 27, 2007 in Geekery, Talk, Travel

At the end of May, I’ll be rafting down the Rogue River in southern Oregon. I am looking forward to what should be a wonderful adventure with good friends, and to seeing more of Oregon’s beautiful landscape. The trip deserves to be well documented, so I stocked up on Moleskine Cahiers journals and purchased a [...]

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Tip of the Day: Cleaning An LCD Display

by mitch on April 23, 2007 in Geekery

After cleaning my laptop’s LCD several times with Windex, a fair amount of streaking built up, making the display far less than perfect. A quick search suggested a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and distilled water was the best solution for safely, and effectively cleaning LCD displays. After mixing a batch, and tearing up an [...]

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Tip of the Day: Select Multiple Messages in Gmail

by mitch on March 22, 2007 in Geekery

I find myself often deleting a large series of emails from a rather noisy mailing list, while retaining some messages previously received. Since Gmail’s selection buttons are limited to All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, and Unstarred, I’m forced to press the ‘x’ key, or click a check box for every email in the series. There [...]

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Tip of the Day: Secure Your Gmail

by mitch on March 21, 2007 in Geekery, JavaScript

From the “Why Didn’t I Think of That” department: GMailSecure has got to be one of the most elegantly simple, yet useful Greasemonkey scripts ever. When I say simple, I mean one line of code: location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, ‘https:’); This script ensures your Gmail session using Firefox takes place over a secure HTTP connection providing [...]

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IMified Up (Temporary Fix)

by mitch on March 12, 2007 in Asides, Geekery

Looks like you can use an alternate screen name to connect to IMified via GTalk/Jabber while they work through some growing pains.

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Site Functioning Normally

by mitch on March 12, 2007 in Asides, Blog Stuff, Blogging, Geekery

According to Dreamhost, the slowdown my site experienced earlier was due to “IO requests getting backed up due to networking issues between [my] HTTP server and the File server.” Things are fine now; let’s hope they stay that way.

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IMified Down

by mitch on March 12, 2007 in Asides, Geekery

Just as I begin to rely on it, IMified is down. It was hit-and-miss for me all weekend, and completely down today. I guess that’s why it’s called beta.

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Site slow today…

by mitch on March 12, 2007 in Blog Stuff, Blogging, Geekery

Every page on my site is taking for-flippin’-ever to load. What’s the deal?! Sent support request to Dreamhost… 4 hours 27 minutes later and not a word. Tweaked wp-cache and enabled FastCGI, but still no joy. Are all the rants about Dreamhost right?

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Merrily Meandering Once More

by mitch on March 8, 2007 in Blogging, Geekery, Personal Life, Talk

I can’t really remember when it started, but I think it was 2001 when I pressed the publish button, sending my first post into the blogosphere. Using an early version of Movable Type I began crafting the blog that became known as dotDrivel. Initially an online journal, dotDrivel eventually morphed into collection of musings and [...]

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Have We Lost The Spam War?

by mitch on March 6, 2007 in Geekery, Talk

This post on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog got me thinking about spam. I feel Jeremy’s pain, the problem he describes is troublesome, It used to be a rare occurrence that a message I sent didn’t make it to the intended recipient’s inbox because of some overly aggressive filtering. No more. It seems to be happening on [...]

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