Musings

In case you hadn’t noticed… I’m on a blogging break. I have been very busy the last weeks and I had to cut down the time I read other peoples blogs. It seems that the act of not reading a blog leads to also not writing a blog. I have a couple of new things to talk about (Tungsten T3, SonyEricsson T610, Posting Multipart/form-data from Perl to Notes, the SMTP server in Domino 5.0.11 and it’s handling of CRLF on inbound mails, the wild success that I’m having with Ben’s Midas LSX and a couple of other things - or rather - things that shouldn’t be talked about (*)) but I’m just to tired… ...

I have had one too many comment spams now. I have implemented James Seng’s MT plugin that displays an image with some numbers that you have to type in the box below. Only humans are supposed to be able to do this ;-) On a side note: On a Redhat 7.3 system, you need to get the current version of GD before using the perl GD module that you get through CPAN… I spent quite a bit of time tracking that down… thanks to a FAQ on GraphDefang for pointing me in the right direction. ...

Great stuff: Layoutomatic will create cross-browser compatible multi-column stylesheets… [via Zeldman]

Well - you know what happened to my P800. While it was getting repaired (actually it got a new screen and parts of a new case) I lived with my old R520 and the Tungsten T3 came out. I broke down and now have the T3 - and in combination with my R520 it beats the P800 in almost every discipline. it’s fast, really fast The screen is gorgeous Dialing a phone number is at least 3 times faster with the combination T3 -> R520 -> HBH-15 (bluetooth headset) than with the P800 It runs HourzPro and LifeBalance - two programs I can’t live without Do you want a refurbished P800 on ebay? ...

The Problem with many web applications is the frontend by Asterisk* - well put, well written and I ruefully take my part of the blame. But I’m learning….

After the switch of the graphicscard last week, the problems with my laptop persisted. That meant that the friendly technician went out of the door and came back a day later with a new mainboard for my computer. After exchanging that - the weirdness on the screen was gone - finally. So I’m left with a 80% new computer: The case, HD, DVD and battery are old, the rest is new ;-) I think that Dell is working on their support processes to minimize the occurence of another case of changing three components before their computer starts working again - a call from their service center an hour after the technician left, leads me to believe that. ...