I’ve been wondering which image toolkit is likely to result in lower resource usage (especially coming up against the PHP memory limit) for applications like Gallery and Drupal. People used to always say the resize quality was better with ImageMagick versus GD, but I think GD2 closed much of that gap. But what about resources? [...]

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I’ve been on a long quest for an email client that I like. Granted, my wish list ranged from simple (must not crash constantly) to less simple (synch address books with online account). Despite high resource usage and some interface shortcomings, I think the new version of Yahoo! Zimbra is it. Finally, something to get [...]

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Short version: create a label (like ‘aaDelete’), enable keyboard shortcuts, use ‘l’, then label the message aaDelete, then ‘k’ to go to the next message. When you’re all done, select all messages labelled delete and then delete them. It’s sort of like a second Trash can since Google won’t make the first one work right.

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Some friends went rock climbing in Siuriana, Spain and brought back some hot chocolate for us. I don’t think they know what SEO stands for and I have no idea what it is in Spanish, but it made me think that this hot chocolate company should have an outstanding website.

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The most foolish things I’ve done in my life have been for neither love nor money, but simply for free ice cream. One spring, when I was about ten years old, in return for an ice cream cone, I swam out to the ice in Lake Champlain, only about 25 feet, but in water cold [...]

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Every once in a while I file a support issue with some service I use. The customer service rep confidently replies with an answer. The last one, at a place I won’t name, suggested that I clear my browser cache. Of course, I had done that, multiple times on multiple browsers. That’s fine though. That [...]

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Arrgghh! You try to access an IMAP account via Thunderbird and it just won’t work. Don’t despair!

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I’m listening to a writer for Law and Order, who used to be a crime reporter. He was saying that if you ask any homicide detective, they’ll all tell you that often the killer says “Well he told me to shoot.”

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