WordPress Lossage

May 14th, 2010
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The latest update seems to have screwed up some plug-ins. Most notably the collapsible archives and source code highlighting.

Hopefully this is only temporary.

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My Push GMail Adventure

October 14th, 2008
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Like many other people who have long standing GMail accounts and now use an iPhone (or possibly other smartphone) I am somewhat disappointed by the lack of push notification service.  Here I offer my solution- It’s not perfect and hopefully at some point GMail will support push notification.

Requirements

  • Mobile Me account
  • Gmail Account
  • iPhone
The Steps I took:
  1. I take advantage of a gmail feature detailed here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12096.  I always subscribe to mailing lists using myemailaddress+<nameoflist>@gmail.com so that I can filter on mail sent specifically to me.
  2. Set up a rule that will forward all mail sent to myemailaddress@gmail.com to my mobile me address (In other words, everything that isn’t a mailing list).  In the same rule also apply a label “FW_me.com” so I can later filter out these messages to mark as read etc (I know, it’s not perfect!)
  3. On the iPhone, having previously set up ‘Push’ I just add my mobile me account and disable GMail IMAP.
  4. In the mobile me mail settings disable the me.com smtp server and enable the GMail smtp server.  Now when I reply to mail it still comes from GMail.
Results:
Yay, I now have push email on my iPhone without having to move to a new email address.  I believe similar results can be achieved by fowarding through YMail! and some other Push supporting services, but I may as well use my mobile me account.
Grievances:
  • Changes are not pushed back – you must manually mark mail as read later.
  • messages are stored on device – Ideally messages stay on the server
  • Messages are duplicated through services – clogging the intertubes

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Obsolete

October 14th, 2008
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So, I was in Tesco yesterday getting a tape converter for my car stereo… (I know, finally!!) and the girl at the counter asked me: “What are these audio cassette converters for?”

I answered. “Oh, you can put them into a car tape player and listen to a CD or MP3 player in the car.” 

She nodded but I still remained unsure that she understood.  As I left the store the sudden realisation hit me.  She wasn’t really asking “What is an audio cassette converter?”  She was asking “What is an Audio Cassette?”

 

Those darn kids better get off my lawn!

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New WordPress Blog

November 25th, 2006
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A friend on MSN has been harrassing me for a while to leave Blogger and create a WordPress blog, so here I am, hopefully to stay. I must admit the management features and themes seem a lot cleaner and more elegant than blogger for a start, and it also let’s me add feeds to the sidebar which is a nice feature.

Something I’ve always felt was missing on Blogger was the ability to categorise posts – I’ll use that quite a bit.

So that’s it for now, thanks for reading. yet another, “new blog” post.

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