Thursday, February 21, 2002

I'm looking forward to them implementing something along the lines of "quarantine mail from anyone you haven't already identified as real". [Deadly Bloody Serious] That's basically what I want. I was hoping I could do something like that with Pine, where you can set the score of a message based on what text appears in fields. comment ()  9:38:20 PM

I've long suspected that professional geeks over the age of 45 are nigh-unemployable [Deadly Bloody Serious] I've worried about that myself. I'll turn 40 this year, so I'm getting darn close. comment ()  9:34:26 PM

I'm sitting here watching the women's figure skating and it says live in the corner of the screen. The only problem is that I already know the results. So it must be Memorex :) comment ()  9:28:36 PM

Russian threat to pull out of Games. Winter Olympics 2002 >> *Russian threat to pull out of Games* Russia may withdraw from the Winter Olympics in protest over what team officials are calling "unfair judging". [BBC News: world] Right. By them. comment ()  9:27:36 PM

BTW, you can see many of the comments for the day, on this page. It's the default Manila site for Radio comments, and you can see that a lot of people are using the default.   [Scripting News] This is extremely cool and another reason why I like the idea of the comments being stored at UserLand. comment ()  9:26:25 PM

Shifted Librarian: How to use YACCS with Radio.  [Scripting News] This is pretty cool. But I think I'd rather have my comments sitting on UserLand's server. comment ()  9:21:51 PM

It scares me when Microsoft runs articles entitled "The Death of the Browser?" Why does it scare me? Because if Bill Gates woke up one morning and decided to kill the browser, he could do it. He could even do it slowly so no one notices.  [Scripting News] No doubt. That's how he won the browser war to begin with. Nobody really noticed MS in the browser space until it was too late. comment ()  8:36:01 PM

I need to update my various REALbasic apps and rerelease them. I also want to release the Klondike game I wrote for the MacTech challenge. I came in third, after all. I was a bit worried about releasing it as it could be seen as unpatriotic. Of course, it could also be seen as too patriotic, and that's not right either. You'll see. If I ever release it, that its :) comment ()  8:32:17 PM

I'm having a bit of a conceptual problem with the comments feature. I like it. But I can't tell if anybody has left any comments without clicking on each comments link. Perhaps if I got email whenever somebody left a comment? comment ()  8:30:37 PM

The two episodes of Six Feet Under last night were stunning. Some of the best television I've ever seen. There's a real subtlety and complexity to the show. The "David" character is particularly well done. He has two such distinct personalities (but not in a split sort of way). One personality is the very proper, church-going, perfectionist funeral director. The other personality cruises bars picking up men to have sex with. I knew he was having trouble liking himself and we find out that is indeed true. comment ()  8:26:06 PM

I got my first pictures back from the OM-1 I bought recently. They aren't as fabulous as I had hoped. But they are very nice and some of them are quite good. The best pictures are much better than the pictures we've taken with more modern cameras. comment ()  8:20:19 PM

Five or six years ago I began collecting images of women posed with firearms from motion pictures and other media. [www.moviebadgirls.com] comment ()  4:53:34 PM

Of 100 email messages in my inbox this morning, 44 of them were outright SPAM [Mike Watkin's B Rated K-Log] Sounds like me. I'm really getting very annoyed at the number of spam emails. That's why I was exploring other emailiers. Pine was looking promising. It had this scoring thing that seemed pretty cool. Hmm. Maybe if I came up with a spam filtering system that really worked ... comment ()  3:33:16 PM

The bad news is that apparently Pine is doing weird things to my Mac OS X system. I can't prove it's Pine, but things didn't start going wacky until I started using Pine. My processes started running out of system resources and stuff like that. It was weird. Too bad, really. I may have to write my own mail app :) comment ()  3:04:50 PM

And, I'm figuring out how to configure the colors in Pine the way I like them. I'd been trying to do it in Pine itself, but Pine doesn't let you get to all the settings. But if you edit the .pinerc file, then you have total control. I'm kinda liking Pine! comment ()  11:36:30 AM

I've finally figured out Pine filtering. First, of course, you need to enable-incoming-folders. But I'd already done that. Then you need to add the IMAP folders to your Incoming-Folders that you want to be able to see. I'd done that as well. Then you need to put your text to key off of in the filter in the "recipient" field, not the "to" field. I'd put "realbasic, REALbasic" in the "to" field and "REALbasic" in the "cc" field. The problem with that is that it wanted to find "realbasic" in "to" and "cc". But if you just put "realbasic, REALbasic" in the "recipient" field, then it looks for that text in "to" or "cc". Then, in the field of the filter where you specify where to move the message, you need to do this trick where you specify the IMAP server between {} and the folder outside. So you get: {imap.server.com}folder. You can also specify your username like this: {imap.server.com/user=name}folder. Then things seem to work. Cool. comment ()  11:35:23 AM

My Pine adventures are going well. I can switch to the various screens easily and it is fast both getting mail and switching folders. But I can't get filtering to work to save my life. I have a filter, but it just doesn't seem to want to take. comment ()  11:05:35 AM

Of course, the next thing UserLand needs to do is have the number of comments listed as part of the "comments" link. So people (like me) can tell if there have been any comments made to a post. comment ()  10:47:27 AM

The new comment feature is very very cool. Now I'm just like Burningbird. The only difference being that people comment on her stuff and I'm betting nobody comments on my stuff :) comment ()  10:45:59 AM

Test of comments feature. comment ()  10:42:56 AM

I've been fighting with IMAP clients for several years now. I'd thought I'd found a winner with the Mail app in Mac OS X. I do like it, but lately it has really been crashing a lot on me. Of couse, being Mac OS X, that's not a problem for the system as a whole, but it is kinda annoying. So I'm trying a different tactic. I'm going to give Pine a whirl. Pine is a text-based IMAP client that comes from the UNIX world. It pretty much just works out of the box on Mac OS X, so that is cool. And it is fast. But not being a GUI app takes a bit getting used to. comment ()  10:24:31 AM

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