Tag: cc

  • big ole bagel

    City Cafe Bakery, at the corner of Victoria & Strange (!) in Kitchener has the best bagels.

    I hadn’t been there for years. Last time was with Steve Izma (typesetter and BTL Books guru) and his family, who are regulars.

    Being Scottish and consequently dough-addicted, CCB is heaven.

  • auto-CC’ing someone with Outlook

    If you’ve ever forgotten to cc someone on an e-mail and you’re forced to use Outlook, this could be useful.
    Real example: R is an external contractor. T manages R’s company’s account for us, but isn’t involved in all communications with R. By setting up an outgoing mail filter, I can ensure that all mail I send to R is copied to T.
    The Rules wizard lives in the Tools menu, and the option called (I think) “Rules & Filters”:

    setting up a mail send rule in Outlook

    This particular example is made more complex by R’s having two e-mail addresses. Multiple addresses in the distribution list become a logical-or, so it works out. I’m not sure if I strictly needed the exclusion clause to only cc T if T is not explicitly in the To: or Cc: fields, but it works.

    Outgoing filters only work if Outlook is running, so won’t work if you are not logged in.

  • in the running

    Almost ‘Best of The Year’ time. In the running are:

    A Hawk and a Hacksaw – The Way the Wind Blows
    A.C. Newman – Souvenir of Canada – EP
    Beck – The Information
    Calexico – Garden Ruin
    Casper & the Cookies – The Optimist’s Club
    Colin Meloy – Colin Meloy Sings Shirley Collins
    Eels with Strings – Live At Town Hall
    Elf Power – Back To The Web
    Erynn Marshall – Calico
    Faun Fables – The Transit Rider
    Grandaddy – Just Like The Fambly Cat
    Grant-Lee Phillips – nineteeneighties
    Hidden Cameras – Awoo
    Joanna Newsom – Ys
    Jolie Holland – Springtime Can Kill You
    King Biscuit Time – Black Gold
    Mayor McCa – Cue Are Es Tea You
    Peter Stampfel – The Jig Is Up
    Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 – Olé! Tarantula
    Sufjan Stevens – Songs For Christmas – Volume V: Peace
    Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche – Outtakes And Extras From The Illinois Album
    The Be Good Tanyas – Hello Love
    The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
    The Essex Green – Cannibal Sea
    The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
    The Handsome Family – Last Days of Wonder
    The Instruments – Cast A Half Shadow
    The Sadies – In Concert Vol. 1
    The Wailin’ Jennys – Firecracker
    Thom Yorke – The Eraser
    Thomas Dolby – The Sole Inhabitant
    Wendy Arrowsmith – Crying Out
    Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

    Miraculously, all of them fit on my iPod Nano, so they’ll be in heavy rotation over the next week or so while I decide.

  • Reeks of Astroturf

    Either the Fair Air Association of Canada is a last-gasp attempt by Big Tobacco to overturn Canadian smoking bans, or it’s a delightful work of twisted humour. I’m unsure which.

  • tunes I must learn (eventually)

    Not all of these could be classed as banjo tunes, but I’d want to try, anyway:

    • The Coo-Coo Bird (it’s not optional)
    • The Old Plank Road (Uncle Dave’s delivery, which was more demented than the Rounders)
    • Hot Corn, Cold Corn (like HMR; just how does one spell moo’m moo’m moo’m de boo’m boo’m de boo’m?)
    • I’m Going In A Field (Nic Jones style)
    • Bridges & Balloons (Joanna’s song’s just crying out to be covered with a broad Glasgow accent)
    • Needle of Death (too many banjo tunes are too happy)
    • Ghost (the Neutral Milk Hotel one)
    • something by Sufjan (even if Peter Stampfel says he plays banjo kind of boringly)
    • I Love How You Love Me (like Mangum, not Spector)
  • to lie down

    This is might be Nic Jones: I’m Going In A Field [mp3]. I’m not sure, though.
    Whoever it is, it’s rather good, and accompanies part of the Claptrap DVD of Ivor Cutler’s Looking for the Truth with a Pin / Cutler’s Last Stand.

  • look out!

    I see that my company’s Outlook Web Access does much niftier things on IE than on FireFox:

    outlook web access on IE

    You don’t get those options of Firefox. Bah

    But in true MS dunderhead fashion, when you quit the mail client, it clears all your cookies — including the ones of sessions on other sites. Microsoft, this isn’t DOS; people multitask these days …

  • damp bandit

    I was busy making Möbius strips out of till roll, when I became aware of a little face watching me at the window. A very damp raccoon had one paw up on the window sill, and was looking at me as if to ask, “What are you doing making single-sided paper figures on a night like this?”

  • back to 32-bit

    I think I’ll have to install Ubuntu for i386 on the Sempron box, as too many hardware things don’t work. At the moment, I’m stuck with unaccelerated graphics and wired etherent; the via graphics driver isn’t yet 64-bit clean, and none of my wireless adaptors have 64-bit drivers, either.

    Maybe at the next release I’ll go 64-bit.

  • scruss at eyetap

    I finally remembered the password to my account at Steve Mann‘s eyetap, so I updated the content a bit.

  • calculator porn

    For no good reason, I think I need the new HP 50g calculator, if only because it’s so absurdly large. Mind you, since I recently found my 49G again, I don’t think I can justify it.

  • deep fried jam sandwich à la mode

    I just had a deep fried strawberry jam sandwich (with ice cream) at St Andrews Fish & Chip restaurant at Ellesmere & McCowan — and survived!

    (it was good, incidentally)

    Our server also had Bishopbriggs connections, so it’s a wee world.

  • gone with the wind

    I see that Americas Wind Energy updated their website to replace the site I wrote for them a couple of years back. It’s purty, but:

    • The page URL sometimes inexplicably switches to d3095932.ejt86.ejtechinternational.com from awe-wind.com.
    • The product page for the AWE 52-750 shows a bunch of non-operational turbines.
    • The AWE 52-900 page also has a picture of a parked turbine, and it looks a lot like Tallon Energy’s 52-750 at Pincher Creek.
    • More parked turbines on the 54-900 page, and occasionally a completely different machine is shown.

    Oh wait, I get it – it’s a random turbine image for each page. Hmm.

  • my, how you’ve grown!

    One of the little raccoons walked along the back wall this morning.

    young raccoon

    young raccoon

  • But I’m not singing “At A Time Like This”, I’m singing …

    The Hut Sut Song, perhaps the most infectious earworm you’ll ever hear.

    … or if you want it a bit more accessible, here is an mp3 of The Hut Sut Song, converted from the same source.

  • in Aalborg

    I like Aalborg. I think we’re staying in exactly the same hotel (the Scandic) as I stayed in 10 years ago with RES. We’re going to see some really big wind turbines tomorrow.

    Oh, and the Google Maps locations I picked off for this hotel are pretty darn accurate; the one I double-clicked on for this hotel is less than 50m from my room. I like.

  • mother’s day treat: critters!

    We were visited by the raccoon family last night; mother and four little ones. Please excuse the ‘painterly’ blur; it’s kinda hard to handhold a 300mm lens for 1/3s exposure. Plus, wee raccoons are speedy little things.

    mom and baby raccoon

    wee raccoon

    wee raccoons

    wee raccoon

    This one was taken a few days back (of the mother alone) in better light:

    mom raccoon

  • bandits in the backyard

    momma raccoon climbed up the tree and walked along the back wall — followed by her three little ones. They were very sweet.

  • the commitments

    When I was testing BlackBerry typed-alike words (dactonyms?) I found that sqlite was averaging about 1 insert per second. This is by no means good.

    It turns out that, under Perl, sqlite auto-commits after every write. This slows things down terribly. Here’s how to fix this:

    When opening the database handle, turn AutoCommit off:

    my $dbh =
    DBI->connect( “dbi:SQLite:bberry2.sqlite”, “”, “”, { AutoCommit => 0 } )
    or die “$!”;

    Then, only commit occasionally — say every thousand writes:

    while ( … ) {

    …$id++;
    $dbh->commit unless ( $id % 1000 );

    }
    $dbh->commit;

    It works out about 1000 times quicker this way.

  • pre-crepuscular visitor

    evening raccoon
    She made off with all speed, which isn’t very much, for a raccoon.