Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2006
I have a Pentax Optio S5i digital camera that I think is great. However, the one huge flaw in it; it uses some wacky USB cable that isn’t the standard mini USB. Today my wife wanted to transfer pictures and it took me over 2 hours to find the stupid cable. I have tons of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 16th, 2006
I decided to put my ReceiptWallet program on MacZOT! to give it some extra marketing and see how things go. While (obviously) I won’t make as much as if I sold it directly, I’m expanding my customer base. As part of this, I had to implement some new systems in order to handle the orders [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2006
The other day my wife asked me what the following meant in an email:
—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–
<xxxxxxx@aol.com>
(reason: 554-: (RLY:CH) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlych.html)
Hmmm…I started looking and it appears that AOL had decided to block all email originating from my server’s IP address. After a bit of research, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2006
My saga this week has been that my server has been quite unstable and would lock up at seemingly random times. My first attempt to fix it was replacing the power supply; Monday morning, I noticed my server was completely off and it wouldn’t power up, so I yank 2 of the 3 hard drives [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2006
The other day I bought a kneeling chair to help my posture. I went to the Healthy Back store and bought an inexpensive one; I liked it better than the others ones. I ended up getting the Healthy Back Kneeling Chair. It wasn’t until today that I discovered a huge design flaw in the chair. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2006
I’m usually the first one to bash Fry’s as their customer service and shopping experience is quite poor. However, this morning, I discovered that the power supply on my server died (I unplugged 2 of the drives and it booted, so it was quite apparent that this was the plug), so where else do I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2006
One of the most requested ReceiptWallet features was to be able to handle receipts in multiple currencies. OK, simple enough I thought as I could just treat all values as strings so that they have a currency symbol in them. The problem was that I had to verify that the currency symbol was valid and [...]
