Handy trick for the rest of your life

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Focus On The Rest Of Your Life

Focus On The Rest Of Your Life 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
When you have free time to play or to create, how do you spend your time? By Daniel H. Steinberg (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

His books are required reading for the
rest of your life

His books are required reading for the
rest of your life 09/15/2004 11:55 AM
The Greatest War Protestor of All Time --Wise, hilarious, and kind words from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. If you don't know who he is, fake it.

Oh My Dear God: 1 / 7 of the Rest of My
Life Will Be Spent on Mondays ...

Oh My Dear God: 1 / 7 of the Rest of My
Life Will Be Spent on Mondays ... 11/12/2002 09:36 AM
Oh My Dear God: 1 / 7 of the Rest of My Life Will Be Spent on Mondays ... Just sit right back and I'll tell you a taleA tale of a fateful day, That started on this Mondaywith this tiny geek(my apologies to Gilligan's Island) You know I've heard people use this as a polite curse "May 1/7 of your life be spent on Monday" but I don't think it really hit me how true that is until yesterday. Monday. A dreadful Monday. The day started nicely enough, I: Rose early Showered without falling down in the shower (a classic Monday-ism although it only ever happened once to me and on a Thursday) Ate donuts Caffeinated well Wrote code Wrote more code Wrote even more code And then I started to hit problems. First it was handling some php imap_XYZ functions and dealing with returned objects, not returned arrays. I had this code:$mbox = imap_open ("\{$mailserver}INBOX", $login, $password, CL_EXPUNGE );$headers = imap_headers ($mbox); # if test based on $headers omitted$header = imap_header ($mbox, $message_id );$from = $header->from; And then I passed $from to a routine and tried to extract it's value. Nope. Didn't work. Tried different syntax options. Nope. Then I used the most excellent var_dump($from) to make sure that the data was indeed getting passed to me. It was. Hmmmm.... Thankfully Kjartan was online so I IM'd him and he quickly figured it out. The $from is an object so I need a foreach loop to retrieve it's value or: foreach ($from as $id => $object) { $from_name = $object->personal; $from_address = $object->mailbox . "@" . $object->host; } Of course this is nowhere in the php.net docs. Nowhere. It's obvious if you really read the return values closely (they state it's an object) but it's not clear how to do it. So I added it to php.net here. Ooops. Monday is continuing since I can't even find it. Sigh. So, anyway, I got my code working and then I started to deal with mime encoded attachments. Ack !!! Foo!!!! If you haven't done it, I strongly recommend you steal the code from somewhere else so I needed my copy of PHP and MySQL Web Programming which I thought would cover it. I thought this was in my car so I grabbed my keys and headed outside. Since I was being very, very smart I figured I'll go out thru the basement and carry some boxes down to storage. No problem. Bad, bad, bad, bad call. I'm now living in a new place and not really used to the locks here yet. Needless to say the basement door closed behind me. No problem I thought -- I have my keys. Well this was now 4 pm and I'd been coding all day long and hadn't left the house at all. So this means that the door was still locked from the night before with the deadbolt. The deadbolt which can be opened from the outside -- IF THEY GIVE YOU A DAMN KEY FOR IT !!! And, of course, they didn't. This led to my heading back to the basement door only to find that the lock for that was one for which I didn't have a key either. Oh and did I mention that I was wearing shorts, a T shirt and no shoes? And: No cell phone No wallet No ID Don't even know my landlord's name or # Don't know the property manager's name or # My only neighbor I know, who happily lives downstairs from me, is out for the 1st time in days Hmmm..... So time to take stock of the situation. I have: House and car keys Minimal clothing No pocket knife A car filled with miscellaneous oddments including some tools. Eureka !!! A back door I haven't thought to try yet Of course I rushed over to the back door pleased as punch that I remembered it. IT WOULDN'T OPEN. The lock turned. The frame bowed at the top and the bottom which indicated to me that there wasn't a deadbolt but the damn door knob wouldn't turn. Sigh. I start to realize "It must be Monday". I head back to the car and round up a small flat blade screw driver and a hammer. I start by trying to tighten the door knob screw since maybe that's a problem. Of course screws aren't supposed to spin forever. Sigh Sigh Sigh. When that didn't work I manage to pull the knob off and use the hammer's claws to try and turn the spindle. Nope. Didn't work. Next up is removing the lock face plate entirely. Still can't get it in. I start to contemplate the pure satisfaction of breaking the glass but I figure "I'll probably cut myself and bleed copiously". So I took the screwdriver and removed all the window glazing putty and then got the pane of glass out. From the other side of the door the handle turned fine and then I was in. It turns out there is a lock setting on the door jam that I hadn't ever been told about which makes it so you can't open the door from the outside. Needless to say I changed that setting. And then I replaced the glass (still need to glaze it but that's not a big deal). So my day resumed and I found out that John's having a similarly bad day. I went back to coding and created then solved several errors. My day ended by taking myself out to dinner. And, on the way, a car ran a red light and hit me. My actions? I went home to bed.

"A jury Tuesday spared Lee Boyd Malvo a
death sentence, deciding instead to send
him to prison for the rest of his life
for the murder of Linda Franklin at a
Home Depot store in Seven Corners. The
convicted Washington-area sniper, who
was 17 when the..."

"A jury Tuesday spared Lee Boyd Malvo a
death sentence, deciding instead to send
him to prison for the rest of his life
for the murder of Linda Franklin at a
Home Depot store in Seven Corners. The
convicted Washington-area sniper, who
was 17 when the..." 12/25/2003 03:19 AM

A one-trick pony that does the trick
well

A one-trick pony that does the trick
well 06/02/2004 03:44 AM
Convergence is something we talk about in this space from time to time and today is one of those times. But it's not convergence of protocols and standards that I want to mention today. Instead, it's a convergence of two of the concepts that intrigue me as they offer a very good ration of reward to risk when combined.

Handy to know.

Handy to know. 07/17/2004 05:04 AM
How do you know that the hand you see in front of you belongs to you? Now you k now.

PHP Handy off the Web, Too

PHP Handy off the Web, Too 06/26/2002 01:01 PM
26 Jun 2002: Unix Review brings us: PHP Handy off the Web, Too."It is a "general-purpose scripting language," though. You can use it for computing needs that have nothing to do with the Web. In this installment of "Regular Expressions," we'll show you how and why.

this handy infographic

this handy infographic 08/20/2004 06:07 PM
calm recital of facts .. this graphical view .. web of connections

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My Handy Restaurant 0.8.1

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.1 01/27/2004 12:36 PM
Handheld-ready restaurant software to manage orders, bills, accounting, stock.

Handy Recovery v1.0

Handy Recovery v1.0 04/09/2004 04:07 PM
Handy Recovery is data recovery software designed to restore accidentally deleted files on hard and floppy drives with FAT12/16/32, NTFS and NTFS 5 file systems. The program runs under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 and can recover files deleted by virus attacks, power failures and software faults. Easy-to-use Explorer-style disc content browser helps to find lost files and restore even a bunch of recursively deleted folders with one click. [Freeware 545 KB]

Keep pen, paper handy

Keep pen, paper handy 08/04/2004 09:34 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Aug 4 2004 2:02PM GMT

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.3

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.3 05/20/2004 05:53 AM
Handheld-ready restaurant software to manage orders, bills, accounting, stock.

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.3.1

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.3.1 05/25/2004 11:40 PM
Handheld-ready restaurant software to manage orders, bills, accounting, stock.

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.4-beta4

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.4-beta4 09/15/2004 01:35 PM
Handheld-ready restaurant software to manage orders, bills, accounting, stock.

Two handy FireFox extensions

Two handy FireFox extensions 03/06/2004 02:01 AM

Just a quick plug for a couple of FireFox extensions I've been digging recently. Chris Pederick's Web Developer toolbar / menu extension combines ideas from a whole bunch of other extensions and bookmarklets in to one extremely useful whole. The usual assortment of validation and element outlining options are present, but the really useful tools are "View Cookie Information" and "View Response Headers". I've used separate extensions for these before but it's handy to have them all in one package.

The second is something which really should be built in to every browser: Clear HTTP Auth, which lets you log out of HTTP authenticated sites without having to close all your browser windows.

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.4-beta3

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.4-beta3 08/20/2004 10:09 AM
Handheld-ready restaurant software to manage orders, bills, accounting, stock.

"Virtuelle Kritzeleien mit dem Handy"

"Virtuelle Kritzeleien mit dem Handy" 12/28/2003 08:58 AM
diesen Artikel .. zur Geschichte

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My Handy Restaurant 0.8.4-beta2

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.4-beta2 07/27/2004 02:31 PM
Handheld-ready restaurant software to manage orders, bills, accounting, stock.

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.4-beta1

My Handy Restaurant 0.8.4-beta1 07/24/2004 04:38 PM
Handheld-ready restaurant software to manage orders, bills, accounting, stock.

"explains why with a handy chart"

"explains why with a handy chart" 04/29/2004 04:27 PM

Handy Wristwatch Phone

Handy Wristwatch Phone 11/06/2003 08:45 AM
femto writes "ABC is reporting that Japanese researchers have demonstrated a wristwatch phone that uses the wearer's finger as an ear piece. To make a call, ...

Handy guide to WMD lingo

Handy guide to WMD lingo 01/23/2004 03:54 AM

Build Your Own Holograms at Home with
this Handy Kit

Build Your Own Holograms at Home with
this Handy Kit 06/24/2005 07:08 PM

Maybe it’s the season, but we’ve been obsessed with holographic technology here at RealTechNews. First came the 80GB holographic storage card, then the very cool Holographic TV, but since both are not likely to help any of us any time soon, here’s one that will - the Home Hologram kit. ================================ THE LITIHOLO HOLOGRAM KIT $139 Since the first Star Wars movie projected a hologram of Princess Leia, holograms have captured the imagination of people…

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Running Gadget Handy, but Only in
Country (AP)

Running Gadget Handy, but Only in
Country (AP) 06/09/2004 04:04 PM
AP - As if I weren't challenged enough running the Paris Marathon, I had to confront a course marked in kilometers — it might as well have been in furlongs for an American like me.

This Could Prove Handy: MS JVM
Diagnostic Tool

This Could Prove Handy: MS JVM
Diagnostic Tool 02/19/2004 12:52 PM
Microsoft's new Java Virtual Machine diagnostic downloadable tool runs on most flavors of Windows (even older ones like Windows 95 and Windows 98) and "can be used to scan one or more computers to detect the presence of MSJVM and MSJVM-related software," according to Microsoft's Web site.

...The Onion put together this handy
reference chart

...The Onion put together this handy
reference chart 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
Infographic from the Future .. other

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High Security ID Cards - Handy Or
Totalitarian?

High Security ID Cards - Handy Or
Totalitarian? 07/22/2004 11:14 PM

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Thanks to problems like identify theft, the U.K. is considering some pretty drastic methods to combat identity fraud. The U.K. has already published a draft bill that may mean better security for identification documents over the next few years. On the same note, many states in the U.S. are already requiring thumbprints on state-issued driver licenses. While some may believe that this is going to help detour identity fraud, I am willing to bet that…

Cell Phones: Handy Game Consoles

Cell Phones: Handy Game Consoles 09/20/2004 06:54 AM
CBS News Sep 20 2004 11:18AM GMT

High security ID Cards - Handy or
Toletarian

High security ID Cards - Handy or
Toletarian 07/22/2004 06:15 PM

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Thanks to problems like identify theft, the U.K. is considering some pretty drastic methods to combat identity fraud. The U.K. has already published a draft bill that may mean better security for identification documents over the next few years. On the same note, many states in the U.S. are already requiring thumb prints on state issued drivers licenses. While some may believe that this is going to help detour identity fraud, I am willing to…

Handy wireless networking with Knoppix
Linux

Handy wireless networking with Knoppix
Linux 06/21/2004 07:46 AM
Last year I bought an IBM T30 Thinkpad, intending to install Linux on its hard drive sometime. Meanwhile, using a Knoppix LiveCD let me run Linux on the laptop while retaining the factory Windows XP installation. The notebook is my travel machine, so I also bought a Linksys WPC55AG PC Card wireless network adapter that supports 801.11a/b/g for the Thinkpad. For secure wireless Linux surfing, I was determined to find some configuration that would work with minimal intervention at boot time and that was easy enough that my wife could load it.

"Digitale Duftmarken: Virtuelle
Kritzeleien mit dem Handy - Netzwe..."

"Digitale Duftmarken: Virtuelle
Kritzeleien mit dem Handy - Netzwe..." 12/28/2003 03:00 PM

Excel 2002 Sample: Five Handy Charting
Tips

Excel 2002 Sample: Five Handy Charting
Tips 04/28/2004 02:43 PM
This download includes a collection of handy add-ins and techniques created by Excel MVP Tushar Mehta for use with Excel charts.

High Gear Summit Watch Reviewed
(Verdict: Big But Handy)

High Gear Summit Watch Reviewed
(Verdict: Big But Handy) 04/18/2005 03:08 PM

Sea kayakers are a hearty breed, born of the sea and prone to yarring and yawping at storms. Whereas they once had to depend on arcane skills like "looking at clouds" and "watching the Weather Channel," the Summit watch's barometer allows them to tell when the storms are coming and even includes a digital compass and a little icon that tells you if it's going to be sunny or rainy. Plus it has a thermometer.

This review is aimed mostly at water sports enthusiasts but they've added just enough geekery to make it palatable to everyone.

Sea Kayaking Gear Review: HighGear Summit Watch [WetDawg]

Reagan's Star Wars initiative spawned
handy tech gadgets

Reagan's Star Wars initiative spawned
handy tech gadgets 06/09/2004 07:42 AM
USA Today Jun 9 2004 12:20PM GMT

Neat trick, Ole

Neat trick, Ole 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
Props to Ole for finding a really neat way to access his mobile’s filesystem .. It’s a shame it doesn’t...

Refresh trick

Refresh trick 03/12/2003 12:38 PM
If you, like me, have stopped using the pop-up comment windows but Google is still pointing people to them (like so: FedEx sucks) then add the following to your Comment Listing Template: <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;<MTEntryPermalink>”> Have fun....

A Nifty Trick

A Nifty Trick 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

I have a nifty trick I wanted to share, since I think Web designers might find it useful when making reductions of bugs to send to browser developers. Basically I had this bug I was working on where content would sometimes shift too far to the right in Safari (don't worry, this bug isn't in 1.0). The bug was timing-related, and it only occurred intermittently when you reloaded the page.

The bug would only happen if layout occurred at a particular time, and usually this happened when a script was stalled loading long enough for the browser to decide it needed to show the user what it had so far.

If a script stalls, it's blocking the parsing of the rest of the content, so if a layout does occur, you're basically guaranteed that you're going to lay out the content of the page exactly up to the opening script tag and no more.

The bug in question would only happen if Safari had to do a layout before the script had loaded. Maciej (the JS guru on our team) came up with a clever idea: instead of pointing the script at an external resource, just make the script do something that would force a synchronous layout. Then you could basically construct test cases that made layout happen at precise chokepoints that you set up yourself! How cool is that?

A trick that works with both Safari and Mozilla is to try to access a property like offsetHeight, so here's an example:

<script>var v = document.body.offsetHeight;</script>

The layout engine basically has to lay out in order to give you a decent answer, so the handy little snippet above can be inserted anywhere in a document to force the layout of a page up to that point!

Armed with this trick I was able to easily fix the bug, since I now had a test case that demonstrated the problem 100% of the time. Thanks, Maciej!

Motorola's Hat Trick

Motorola's Hat Trick 05/08/2004 06:26 AM
Forbes May 8 2004 10:20AM GMT

A handy guide to maximizing your 2004
holiday schedule by planning your sick
days

A handy guide to maximizing your 2004
holiday schedule by planning your sick
days 01/07/2004 06:59 PM
plan their sick days properly

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