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I just realized that Mozilla Thunderbird also wraps plain-text messages at 74 characters per line. I guess it’ll be easier than I thought to identify those posts.

I really wish Mozilla Thunderbird had support for “mail templates”; then I could automate this process (set subject line prefix, paste first 2 lines and closing line). Oh, well. At least now I can make posts from web cafes (well, if there WERE any in Austin that I visited on a regular basis).

Now my Lat/Lon values will be imported when I post via email (now that I’ve divined, magically, the string to put on the second line)?

So I’m testing out posting via email. Let’s see if it works.

I’ve gone ahead & upgraded from b2 to wordpress. Yes, it’s an upgrade. From what I can tell, the authors of b2 made substantial changes to the product, and stopped development on b2 and cafelog (the commercial flavor of b2). Mainly, it just means that it’s a better product on the backend (the parts you’ll never really see). It also (unfortunately) means that I’ll have to rewrite my main template, since this one is the default that comes with WordPress, and isn’t really my style. ...

Calling your ISP’s technical support with your computer off is like walking into your mechanic’s garage and saying “I’m having some trouble with my car.” It’s so hard to not be outrageously profane when writing this post. Come on, people! Exercise your brain a little! I know it’s not something you usually use on a regular basis, what with everything else in the world being spoon-fed to you. Fox News dumbs down the stories the air so that even a 5-year-old can understand them. TV Shows and movies are produced for, what, an average 8th-grade audience? Hell, it’s even hard to find a non-editorial article in the newspaper with words that have more than three syllables. ...

et another link I ganked from Fark, Brian’s Belly has an article which is a combination mini-biography/interview about (with?) Alton Brown, that enigmatic host (and writer, etc) of Good Eats. By the way, Good Eats is probably my favorite TV show ever. It’s great; it begins with teh basic premise of “cooking show,” but rapidly expands to (and here I paraphrase/quote the Brian’s Belly article) “Mr. Wizard meets Cooking Show.” Check it out. Here in beautiful Central Daylight time, it’s on the Food Network all the damn time these days; new episodes are on Wednesdays at 8:00, and reruns of older episodes are at least monday through friday at 10:30. The drawback to those being it’s on opposite Futurama on the Cartoon Network. ...

I saw this picture on Grotto 11, and I promptly stole it; isn’t that what the internet’s all about? Anyway, if I still used Windows on my x86 hardware, I’d probably switch to iTunes. Feature-for-feature, it’s the best (only?) program of its kind right now.

It seems like all I do is bitch about work these days. Well, not even about work, just about the people I have to talk to. Well, not to disappoint, here’s another one. There’s a reason I say everything. When I say “mail.devlogic.org”, there’s a reason I said every syllable. I didn’t say “maildevlogic.org”, and I didn’t say “maildevlogicorg”. Please type what I say. And if you’re reading off of your screen to me, please say what’s there. If the blank says “mail.devlogic.org”, please say “mail dot devlogic dot org”. It doesn’t do me any good for you to say “maildevlogic.org” when that isn’t what it says. All it does is make me either ...

Yuck. And that picture isn’t completely correct, either. There were only 2 of us, not three; I grabbed that screenshot in the middle of an update.