As I was posting my last post with Microsoft Writer, I got a spell checker error:
I would think they would get that word in the dictionary.
dasBlog version 1.9 released
Just got finished upgrading dasBlog to version 1.9. The 2 most prevalent changes are the following
- RSD support: Really Simple Discover which allows blogging applications to auto configure…very cool.
- MetaWeblog.newMediaObject: which allows attachments, images, etc. to be automatically uploaded during a post.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the newMediaObject API to work with Microsoft Writer. I see the method in the API but Writer chokes on it. But according to Omar, it should work.
v1.9 was just released last night…so maybe their will be some config tuning.
Thanks. No. Rinse. Repeat.
Thursday night, I installed the beta Office 07 on my laptop. Still a little bumpy, still trying to get it running right. Anyways, I was very interested in what new “tagging” features or equivalent that Outlook 2007 might have. Initially, I was a little disappointed but still evaluating it. I read a few people’s impressions on this topic and came across the whole “Getting Things Done” approach. I am very interested in this topic and will research more about it.
While visiting 43Folders.com , I came upon ThanksNo.com.
Hi. The person who sent you this link is a friend who likes you a
lot but who wants you to respect their email address, their privacy,
and their time.Chances are, this person asked you to visit this page because you did one of these things:
- Forwarded a funny story, a virus warning, or a photo that you enjoyed
- Sent email to lots of people using the “To:” line (instead of the
“BCC:” line), thereby exposing your friend’s email address to strangers- CC’d your friend unnecessarily on something you had sent primarily to someone else
In any case, you might want to go back and have another look at the
email they’re replying to. They asked you to visit here because, while
they love getting one-on-one, personal messages from you, they really don’t want to receive more messages like the one you just sent. Cool?You’re not a bad person, and no one hates you, but it would be
valuable to learn the very personal preferences of your friends, family
members, and co-workers before including them in unrequested email or
choosing to expose their private address to people they don’t know.Thanks for understanding, and if this same thing ever happens to
you, feel free to reply to an email you don’t want by pasting this in
The basic message is don’t forward me crap…I have enough to read and do.
I sent one these messages a few years ago to friend. It got to the point where I stopped reading his email because it was just forwarded crap. One time, he sent me some important message…like he’s visiting or something. I didn’t read it until after the time had past.
I shared this site with my wife. She is definitely a vicitim of this topic. Sometimes, she is a recursive victim. She wanted to add: please don’t forward me anything that you received from someone else and I was also copied on. For example, her grandma will forward some email to her and her mom (not BCC’d). Her mom then forwards it again to her without taking the time to read the initial distribution list.
Regardless, I did enjoy the footer with respect to the warranty of the site:
It is provided in the hope it will be useful, but it is offered on an as-is basis and without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Framework 2.0 bug with XML-RPC
I wrote a vb.net program a few months ago that leverages CookComputing.com‘s XML-RPC library. I just upgraded to using Framework 2.0. The upgrade wizard did an ok job with the migrate. It did find a few items but it wasn’t too bad. My biggest offending issue was some background threads that were not updating form elements via invoking on the main thread. I knew about this issue but I was just lazy…and this was utility for me. However, it forced me to make it threadsafe…which I think is a good thing.
After fixing up my code, it wouldn’t run when calling a REST API. I used an interfaced approach with the API call. When I called to generate the proxy, I got very non-descript error message. Did some quick research and found that there is known bug with the framework 2.0 and the library as to how it uses reflection not marked as Public.
From CookComputing.com:
In May I reported to the MSN Product Feedback Center a problem with .NET 2.0 beta 2 which broke existing XML-RPC.NET applications. The bug report was later marked as fixed,
in particular “This bug will be fixed in RTM milestone.”. Unfortunately
the problem still exists in the release version of .NET 2.0.Therefore any applications which create a XML-RPC.NET proxy based on
an interface which is not declared as public will fail on the call to
XmlRpcProxyGen.Create.
Threaten to transfer
I just recently changed my domain registar from Dotster.com to GoDaddy.com. I did this mainly because Dotster started to charge for the DNS manager…$10 per year. During the transfer, I got this email from Dotster:
We’d like to encourage you to stay by offering you reduced account pricing. If you choose to take advantage of this offer and cancel your transfer, we will permanently reduce your registration, renewal, and transfer pricing. Your new pricing will include $8.95 registrations and renewals along with $7.75 transfer pricing. We DO NOT charge an ICANN fee, as most other registrars do. The new pricing applies to the following TLD’s – .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .us. Just click on “renew domains” below to take advantage of this offer and cancel your transfer. The new pricing will apply to all future registrations and renewals as well, and is effective immediately.
This actually frustrated me even more. So in order to get the cheaper rate, you have to threaten them to leave. That’s is not a business model that I want to be a part of. If they can offer that rate, then it should be the normal rate.
Google Earth
A couple months ago, I remember playing Google Earth and thought it was ok but more or less just forgot about it. Last week, I decided to give it another look and found it amazing. I think the reason why I gave it a second look because I wanted to compare it the new Microsoft local.live.com.
Its “fly to location” feature is quite awesome and enchants my 3 year old son who is totally into maps. The community feature is pretty neat, as well. People can “pushpin” points of interest and share. These can be turned on and show right up in the map.
I was looking at some burning oil fields in Iraq and it made me think about the “time” issue with satellite images. It would be interesting to be able to compare a region overtime. This could be interesting for a number of reasons:
- aforementioned Iraq
- Stadiums or buildings as they are being built
- before/after of New Orleans
- suburbs growth
Firefox painlessly updated
Today, my Firefox was automatically updated to 1.5.01. It is refreshing how simple and painless it is.
It did say that one of my extensions X-Ray was not compatible was was disabled.
I think Apple and Real need to learn some lessons from FireFox.
XP Prize
The award for Windows XP on an Intel Mac Content is now at $9569. Supposedly, this guy got it working. However, he did use Vista stuff to help boot. I would say that is legit but I am not the judge.
New Google Toolbar
Initial impression: looks nice and is very intuitive. However, wish the Send To Blog was not locked in to Blogger.com.
Also, no Firefox support yet.
Photo Sharing Websites
Greg
Reinacker did several reviews on photo sharing
websites. His review on
Smugmug really got my attention. I think the simple password protect
feature is great. Setting up an new account to view protected pictures is not
very grandma friendly.
Greg’s
review was dated November, 2005. I noticed the price has gone up $10 per year.