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Saturday, May 19 2012
[08:01:28]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
Oddly, Bass in the Kamakura 7-11 was US$3 a bottle while all of the local beers started at twice that.
Monday, May 14 2012
[03:26:32]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
I am still not quite happy with the Internet access provided by the Hotel Granvia Kyoto: UDP seems to be being dropped, or at least SIP (VoIP/phone) blocked, and DNS was just acting screwy making me think my mail server had disappeared.
Sunday, May 13 2012
[04:00:58]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
I am quite annoyed that a hotel would advertise free Internet but then block outgoing SIP.
Thursday, May 10 2012
[19:38:22]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
The Asus WL-330N that we picked-up from B&H (thanks Dave!) just before leaving was a good delayed impulse buy. It makes using hotels with wired LANs much more attractive and usable, and at about the size of a mid-size phone, and no extra chargers if you already have a microUSB charger.
[23:50:56]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
The Asus WL-330N does seem to have a problem in that after a short time of use it stops transmitting its WiFi network, effectively dying even though its LEDs indicate everything is working. Sometimes it stays working for hours without an issue though, so it does not seem to be a necessarily consistent problem.
Tuesday, May 8 2012
[10:44:03]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
The good news is that I found my old electronic Seiko Japanese-English dictionary. And it works once I put an R03 battery in and pricked the reset button. But I can't read a darn thing anymore.
[17:22:58]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
I shall return in the future.
Thursday, May 3 2012
[20:14:10]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
Boston's MBTA has apparently expired all Charlie (stored value) cards in a belated response to the widely published insecurity of them. The worker I asked about it blamed "those MIT kids".
[20:16:48]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
The only way, accordung to the MBTA worker, to move a credit from an expired card is by visiting one of three stations in the middle of the day,
[20:17:50]
matt [wronka.org]/Amabel
The Charlie card expiry could likely have been handled better.
Tuesday, May 1 2012
Tizen
[23:59:28] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay Looking at the Tizen site, the first thing I looked at was the devices page which contains no devices, but target platforms (Smartphone, In-Vehicle, Tablet, Netbook); it reminds me of MeeGo 18 months ago.
I look forward to Nokia's next platform 18 months down the road, for Smarphone, In-Vehicle, Tablet, and Netbook devices.
https://www.tizen.org/devices
[23:59:28] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay Looking at the Tizen site, the first thing I looked at was the devices page which contains no devices, but target platforms (Smartphone, In-Vehicle, Tablet, Netbook); it reminds me of MeeGo 18 months ago.
I look forward to Nokia's next platform 18 months down the road, for Smarphone, In-Vehicle, Tablet, and Netbook devices.
https://www.tizen.org/devices
Monday, April 23 2012
[21:39:01]
matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay
"This" is not a sentence.
Thursday, April 19 2012
[10:29:52]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
I don't think there's any way of sending an actual, proper, eMail from the HP Touchpad while it's running WebOS. There's no option for having an text/plain part; you always get multipart/alternative with just text/html which blows my mind.
Monday, April 16 2012
Palm webOS Mail Client
[14:16:33] matt [wronka.org]/Trip The Palm webOS v3 mail client I've complained about before. It's frustrating to use, no PGP, quoting is broken and it's somewhat awkward to use for large mailboxes (it seems reasonable if you only have a couple boxes you want to check). It also doesn't set or read flags from the mailbox, but you can set locally stored flags on the tablet.
It also seems to send multipart/alternative messages with exactly one part, text/html, which is a brainfuck. I also don't see any message ID which is confusing. I'm not sure why qmail isn't adding one automatically unless it's because it's local delivery.
[14:16:33] matt [wronka.org]/Trip The Palm webOS v3 mail client I've complained about before. It's frustrating to use, no PGP, quoting is broken and it's somewhat awkward to use for large mailboxes (it seems reasonable if you only have a couple boxes you want to check). It also doesn't set or read flags from the mailbox, but you can set locally stored flags on the tablet.
It also seems to send multipart/alternative messages with exactly one part, text/html, which is a brainfuck. I also don't see any message ID which is confusing. I'm not sure why qmail isn't adding one automatically unless it's because it's local delivery.
Saturday, April 14 2012
Murder Status
[15:59:18] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay I was working on http://matt.wronka.org/stuff/projects/murder/ and hoping to push out a second point release in March; obviously I didn't do that.
Murder, for those who aren't aware, was my attempt at bringing back finger(1) and modernizing it for our Web-first world. Finger and the finter protocol was an easy way for computer users to provide information about themselves and for other users to get a little bit more information about them or check their status. It's what you used before Friendster, which is what you never used before you used Facebook. The benefit of Murder over either of those is that it's designed to be descentralized (as was my Orkut-inspired [this is what you would use instead of Facebook if you are Brazillian, Indian, or a Finnish kid just learning about the lintu and mehilainen] Cork). Murder goes beyond those inspirations to be configured entirely from a shell account much as finger(1) was used, which also means it requires minimal permissions at the server level.
While I haven't pushed the point release, because of lots of craziness going on this summer, I might not push out the next release until August. Sorry for the delay. Hopefully I'll add some beneficial features for then.
[15:59:18] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay I was working on http://matt.wronka.org/stuff/projects/murder/ and hoping to push out a second point release in March; obviously I didn't do that.
Murder, for those who aren't aware, was my attempt at bringing back finger(1) and modernizing it for our Web-first world. Finger and the finter protocol was an easy way for computer users to provide information about themselves and for other users to get a little bit more information about them or check their status. It's what you used before Friendster, which is what you never used before you used Facebook. The benefit of Murder over either of those is that it's designed to be descentralized (as was my Orkut-inspired [this is what you would use instead of Facebook if you are Brazillian, Indian, or a Finnish kid just learning about the lintu and mehilainen] Cork). Murder goes beyond those inspirations to be configured entirely from a shell account much as finger(1) was used, which also means it requires minimal permissions at the server level.
While I haven't pushed the point release, because of lots of craziness going on this summer, I might not push out the next release until August. Sorry for the delay. Hopefully I'll add some beneficial features for then.
Thursday, April 12 2012
[11:00:44]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
The Zimbra interface is extremely annoying, that a slight miss on a new message means that you inevitably cause a sort (because the UI component is immediately above the newest message), and this causes the interface to become unresponsive for close to a minute before you are able to reset the sort (another minute) and then find the newest message again.
Tuesday, April 3 2012
[10:28:01]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
I'm confused. I got an eMail from Last.fm saying my subscription was over. But I'm still listening to it.
Monday, April 2 2012
[21:41:35]
matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay
I'm not a fan of the Lytro camera's magnetic lens cap. It seems to come off in the bag all of the time. There's a lot of things that are much better than that feeling of touching smooth glass when trying to find your camera.
Friday, March 30 2012
Smith Barney
[11:53:09] matt [wronka.org]/Trip Around the time Citi bought Smith Barney, they went from a usable, albeit non-stylish Web-based system for managing ones account to an Adobe Flash based system which suddenly left me stranded from my account. After finding a computer that ran Adobe's Flash plug-ins, it turns out you can't log-in with the Opera web browser for some confusing reason (it looks like bad scripting on Citi's part). I'm very happy I don't have any more shares with Smith Barney or Citi after finally being able to sell those.
[11:53:09] matt [wronka.org]/Trip Around the time Citi bought Smith Barney, they went from a usable, albeit non-stylish Web-based system for managing ones account to an Adobe Flash based system which suddenly left me stranded from my account. After finding a computer that ran Adobe's Flash plug-ins, it turns out you can't log-in with the Opera web browser for some confusing reason (it looks like bad scripting on Citi's part). I'm very happy I don't have any more shares with Smith Barney or Citi after finally being able to sell those.
H&R Block redux
[11:55:56] matt [wronka.org]/Trip Despite importing previous-years returns, H&R Block as again decided to neither register that I'm repaying a first-time homeowners credit nor provide me with a visible way of indicating that I should repay it. Fortunately the IRS is actually very understanding in this regard and didn't charge me extra for fixing the discrepancy before returning my money.
[11:55:56] matt [wronka.org]/Trip Despite importing previous-years returns, H&R Block as again decided to neither register that I'm repaying a first-time homeowners credit nor provide me with a visible way of indicating that I should repay it. Fortunately the IRS is actually very understanding in this regard and didn't charge me extra for fixing the discrepancy before returning my money.