First snow of the season. 🙂
October, 2004
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I’d like to start building a list of web hosting companies that have their servers configured properly to use all the features of my Tasks Pro™ and Tasks software. The Server Check file tests for the most common configuration problems, but there is no substitute for running the software. I’d love links to hosts you…
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The Fishbowl: One Step to Improve Your Online Security – heh. Edgar Martinez wins Roberto Clemente Award Eminem’s Mosh Video – bold imagery. Download Fahrenheit 9/11 Star Wars Pez USB memory stick ESPN.com – MLB/FALLCLASSIC – Schilling: We wouldn’t have won with A-Rod thoughtster – Treats for Kerry – very funny. I thought Bush was…
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Jason recently posted some great tips for buying a car which I followed today. Unfortunately, after finding a sales rep we liked during the test drive process, things fell apart during the financial negoitations. The sales rep said he’s going to talk to the dealer’s other finiancial guy (apparently the son of the owner w/…
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Most calendaring software have day, week and month views – pretty standard stuff. I use Apple’s iCal which has exactly these views. Since Tasks Pro™ (and Tasks) create iCalendars of scheduled tasks, I can see all of the things I need to do listed together with any appointments I have. Generally, what I want to…
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I found another dog this morning. This time I was out taking Noonan for a walk and saw the dog running loose. It came over to us about a block from our house so I picked up my pup (she still doesn’t have all her shots) and carried her home. Then I coaxed the other…
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I can’t believe the Sox won… 😎 1986 was the second World Series I watched and the first that I really cared about. I’d gone to Boston with my family that summer and my Dad and I went to a game at Fenway Park. All my previous major league baseball had been watched at the…
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I’ve been somewhat stumped trying to create some JavaScript to successfully collapse table rows, but I think I’ve finally come up with something that seems to work pretty well. I tried setting display: none; on the TR element and on each TD element, but when I set display: block; Gecko browsers don’t display the row…
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Maybe I spoke too soon when I said things had been resolved… I got an automated phone call this morning from CitiMortgage; the threatening one where they say no payment has been received and they will be reporting you to the credit bureau, etc. *Sigh* So I call the number as requested and sit on…
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For the second month in a row, I’ve gotten a late payment notice from CitiMortgage. This is very frustrating since in both months my payment has been on time. When we got our first bill, I set up a bi-monthly recurring payment though my online banking to pay half of the monthly payment plus a…
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One of the bugs reported in the last alpha of Tasks Pro™ was that the new inline pop-up window for favorites, the date picker, the mark complete form, etc. wasn’t being displayed properly in IE. A little testing showed that the position: fixed; in the CSS wasn’t having the desired effect. It turns out this…
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Finally, Tasks Pro™ 1.5 is ready (I hope) for a beta release! In software development, beta means (well, is supposed to mean) that the release in question is feature complete – it’s a very nice milestone. This should be fairly polished for an initial beta, but I’m still in the if it ain’t right, fix…
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When I took the pup to the vet I was told that until she has all her shots, I should avoid areas that lots of dogs go to; especially dog parks, trails and PETsMART. When I was in PETsMART today, I ran into a gal with a 12 week old pup who (inadvertently) confirmed that…
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The New York Times Endorses John Kerry for President Doonesbury 2004-10-17 ESPN.com – MLB – Report: On tape, Bonds implicated for steroids Jon Stewart on Crossfire : “Stop, stop, stop, s … [Media Matters for America] Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy – Open Letter DrunkenBlog: RSS for Mac OS X Roundtable Today’s Theme:…