Monthly Archives: December 2006

Curse Pentax!

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 … Continue reading

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Bulk Email Program in a flash

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 … Continue reading

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The flip side of spam

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 … Continue reading

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CPU Cooling…it actually does something!

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 … Continue reading

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Chair design flaw

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 … Continue reading

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Excellent Fry’s customer service!

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, … Continue reading

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Why is currency programming so hard?

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. … Continue reading

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