Well it seems if you are a Mail Plus user you get to choose an alias with a '.' in it. Wow! I wonder how many database table schema had to be modified to do this?
I still prefer my gmail accounts for keeping track of email threads and far better search capabilities. Perhaps Yahoo! will catch up one of these days.
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Hmmm, I forget a ~ yet again in my Perl code and spent quite a while trying to figure why a variable was empty. Sheesh!
# The following means assign $b the "success" of $_ =~ s/.dat// # whatever $_ is at this point $b = s/\.dat// ; # This is a regexp substitution: remove first occurrence # of ".dat" from $b. $b =~ s/\.dat// ;
A colleague wanted to send out a mass email with attachments announcing a new piece of test equipment. I looked at a few packages and finally decided on Mail Merge Toolkit as having the necessary features to link a MS Word merge with email. Well, it came time to do it today and I find out the colleague uses Work 97 and this add-in only works for Word 2000 and above. Sigh. Since we are on a common domain he logged on to my machine and I tried the installation and merging using his account. Another sigh. He didn’t have admin rights so the install was incomplete. I had to log in as myself put him in the admin group and then get him to log in again. Finally I managed to send out the 131 emails with “glossy pdf” attachment.
It had to be done today because he is going on an extended vacation using up banked days until sometime next June we he officially retires. Me, I can only recall one or two years of the almost 30 when I might have banked a few days. I’m of the school where vacation is meant to be taken and enjoyed in the year that it is granted.
I configured the final (?) version of the rain barrel with a length of flexible pipe and restored the original elbows of the drain from the eaves trough. Now I can easily take said pipe out of the top of the barrel and clean the debris strainer.
I have re-used a lot of the old deck railing 2×2 to make another compost bin for this year’s leaves. I found plastic “hardware cloth” to line it with and used the bags from topsoil to cover the bottom rails. While I was making it, my neighbour commented that a compost bin cost less than $20 at the store. Yes, I know, but IMHO this one looks nicer than those plastic bins and I re-cycled all those left over 2×2’s.- Not in the yard but round and about: we saw Hello Dolly with my in-laws in Scarberia last night. It was quite a good production—a friend of ours was in the ensemble. Though Dolly’s voice wasn’t the greatest, I enjoyed watching her lungs.
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The Bell’Arte Singers presented their concert for peace and remembrance last night. Our music director, Dr. Lee Willingham, carefully choreographed the singing, readings and even the choir movements to make, from what I heard anyway, a very moving concert for the audience. And it was gratifying to have a larger audience.
The concert was hard work for me as I (tried to) sing tenor. Reading music in the treble clef after many years of only reading in the bass clef took some adjustment. I consider myself good enough in the bass clef to, usually, match pitches to written notes. I had to re-orient my thinking for this concert. I still can’t hit the notes much above an F above middle C except in a quiet falsetto; however, I believe I contributed where I could.
Our next concert is December 10, 2005 at 8:00p at Grace Church on the Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto. We’ll be singing with the York Region Childrens' Choir.
This past weekend I added Google site search to the company website. This replaces the “so Twentieth Century” local search engine. Now the PDFiles and DOCuments are indexed, too.
- According to the assessment, as of January 1, 2005 my house is worth 47% more than what I paid for it 18 years ago. The disclaimer on the notice says my realty taxes may not go up. Sure and Santa Claus is real, too.
Today’s software “find” is a square image. It isn’t your general image editing program but it looks to be handy for creating icons from your favourite photos.- I walked the dog around some richer “no exit” streets tonight. It seems that those with 3 car garages don’t park their cars on the driveway.
- Now that one son has moved away and the other will likely do so in a couple of years I don’t feel the need for a larger house anymore.
A person drove by in a smallish car today exuding very loud music and pounding bass. Do they know that everyone else outside of, perhaps, a couple of friends think they are jerks?
I predict it will only get worse: These young guys will gradually go deaf so they’ll have to get increasingly more powerful amplifiers to experience the same volume.