Found an undocumented “feature” of iCal – it is possible to get it to behave correctly by setting iCal/Preferences/General as follows: Days per week: 7 Start week on: Wednesday Scroll in week view by: Days What is interesting is that this does NOT do what you would think, it actually does The Right Thing(tm) and […]
Tagged iCalSo I don’t forget the real pleasures of last night: Valminor Albarino is a crisp, clean, refreshing white – perfect for seafood Pearmund Viognier is fruity, with a beautiful nose and lovely notes to go with spicy fish, chicken or sausage… yum! Montes Purple Angel from Chile was a delightful full bodied red surprise; really […]
May 5th: Wow, British Airways owned Boeing 777 planes are amazingly quiet; you can actually have a normal conversation and I did not need my canalphones to block out the noise of the jet engines. The seats seemed a little wider too; perhaps 19″ wide instead of 17″ – and that two inches makes a […]
Tagged VeniceIf you are a Firefly fan and you would be interested in a costumed shindig, perhaps in June or July, please send me an email with the email address you would like the invite to be sent to. Please title the email “Shinding, Yes Please†and I will get you on the list. My scottnolan.org […]
Hannes Schmidt has an excellent little write up of why Mac OS X DNS seems a little unpredictable at times when using DHCP or VPN assigned name services; this helps one understand why the results are a surprise or why dig in a terminal window delivers different results from your browser on the same host. […]
Tagged DHCP, DNS, mac os x, VPNThe new 5.x version for Mac was way to Windows-craptastic-y… Gross steps backwards in user interface. Skype 2.8 is vastly better. Though the install image is getting trickier to find. Update: Apparently I am not the only one unhappy with the new interface: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/03/30/skype_5/
Tagged Skype, User InterfaceIf you are a Firefly fan and you would be interested in a costumed shindig, perhaps in June or July, please send me an email with the email address you would like the invite to be sent to. Please title the email “Shinding, Yes Please” and I will get you on the list. My scottnolan.org […]
Tagged firefly, serenity, shindigI am not sure exactly when this happened, but MobileMe mail spool finally supports server-side filtering; you can finally put some spam fighting rules into your web account so the spam does not get to your iPhone/iPad (the Mail.app client has always supported client-side filtering). This potentially fixes the problem where your Mac saw no […]
We’ve been pretty happy Dreamhost and MobileMe customers for years, and despite several MobileMe outages and a few Dreamhost outages we are pretty happy with both services. It is always wise to reassess your technology decisions though, as things do change. What we love about MobileMe: Absolutely fantastic web gallery for photos; best integration with […]
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