It has driven me (and quite a few others) nuts for some time now: New mail comes in that is junk or filtered as spam and the new mail alert sound still plays. Who wants to be notified of incoming junk? Nobody.
I’ve looked but can’t find the Thunderbird bug report where I added [...]
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Thunderbird new mail notification and Spam
November 2, 2007 – 9:38 am
Cell phones, private information, public places
While standing in line at Panera Bread last week I overheard a man ordering something over his cell phone. Due to the poor audio quality, he was speaking fairly loud and slow. When he was finished, and I’d gotten my order, I approached him and said, “Excuse me… You know, if I [...]
March 6, 2007 – 12:27 pm
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser and Painted Surfaces
I’d read various mild warnings about using the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser on painted surfaces (”don’t rub real hard or for too long”), but even a very mild 4 strokes can cause grief.
Can you spot the dull area in the picture? Luckily it is only noticeable if you position yourself oddly in my kitchen.
December 28, 2006 – 7:30 pm
The Abolition of Work
I read this essay a few years back and it struck a loud chord. I was a bit annoyed at myself a few days ago when I wanted to re-read it but could not remember the author or title. Thankfully, Google led me in the right direction once I constructed a sane query.
Work [...]
December 28, 2006 – 4:23 pm
Cream: For those who can’t stomach raw Vim
I’ve used the vi text editor for 13 years now. Under Windows, I’ve used vi clones in several flavors:
The now-defunct shareware editor “Lemmy” which I’d licensed
The port of Elvis to Windows
and finally, when I’ve been able to tolerate it for very long, Vim
I’ve always been ecstatic that Vim exists. I’m more ecstatic lately [...]
December 12, 2006 – 5:03 pm
Crud. What’s that word…
OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word.
Check out the example’s at OneLook’s reverse dictionary page to see the useful stuff you can do there [...]
November 15, 2006 – 10:11 am
