I've started using a couple of new tools for the internet.
If you work on web sites seriously at all, you're probably familiar with FTP. I've been using ws_ftp for ages now, and it has served me well. But with the need to generate more money comes the need for new releases, and with new releases comes crappy features. The version of ws_ftp that I'm using (admittedly not the latest) has this transfer window that really bugs me.
I installed a mail server on this box so that everyone could get their mail. The software is called MailEnable. It has many nice features, but does not include anything that limits the amount of spam that comes into an account.
Looking through the unsupported downloads on their site, I noticed that people had written these things called "MTA pickups". Basically, you can tell MailEnable to run every message it receives through one of these pickups for processing. However the message is left when the pickup is done is how it is delivered.
I drove all over the place looking for the badminton set, which was Berta's original idea, and something that seeming like a good gift. But I wasn't having any luck, and really wanted to get Dad something for him. And so I settled on a DVD of The Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Well, at dinner after we gave him the gifts, I touted the movie as an action movie. But I hadn't seen the movie in quite some time, and didn't know if my portrayal was entirely accurate. So I put my copy of the movie in on Saturday night and watched it again.
I suddenly feel like a commercial for Walmart, but oh, well. We stopped over there yesterday after I had taken some pictures of Abby. As I have mentioned before, our camera takes high enough resolution pictures to print out clear 8x10 photos. It just so happens that the pcitures that I took of Abby were in that high resolution and in “SuperFine” mode, so they were as clear as they were going to get. Sort of.
Anyway, it turns out that Walmart prints are dirt cheap. The 4x6 prints are 10 cents cheaper than anywhere else I tried. All three pictures I had done cost less than $5 total. They came out fast, too. It only took 15 minutes to print 1-8x10, 1-5x7, and 1-4x6. I’m pretty sure they squirted out of the printer all at about the same time, so it wasn’t like 5 minutes per photo, which would have been awful.
It’s a simple archive of people speaking the same English phrase in accents from all around the world. You can even submit your own. It’s mesmerizing to listen to people with odd accents.http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/