Archive for March, 2008

Gmail Email aliases

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I just got this in an email about Google Apps, haven’t tried it yet, but I think it will come in handy!

Share this tip with your users via email:

Flexible Usernames

You can add ‘+anything’ to your email address, and it’ll still arrive
in your account. These additional aliases are great for filling out online
forms, communicating with clients outside your organization, or signing up
for newsletters. Instead of questioning whether you want to provide your
primary email address, you can create a ‘plus’ alias, and then create a
filter to organize incoming mail.

Here are some examples:

– I just purchased an online tutorial, and and they want to send me an
email confirmation. I can input my email address as
username+tutorials@example.com. Then, I can create a filter to label messages
sent to my ‘+tutorials’ alias.

– I’d like to sign up for an industry newsletter – but I don’t want
a ton of mail, and I don’t want to see it in my inbox every day. I can
sign up with username+newsletter@example.com, and create a filter that
labels those messages ‘Newsletter’ and skips my inbox. Now I can read
the newsletters at my leisure, and I know where to find them.

All-nighters

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

It’s been a while since I’ve had to pull an all-nighter. And last night was probably the most difficult of them all, since all previous ones had been working in groups. Last night – it was just me. Sure the music and coffee helped to keep me awake for a while. But come 0345 (after having been up since 0600 the previous day), I was more than jouez au poker gratuitementjeu poker tourfrancaise des jeuxyahoo france jeuxjouer au poker virtueljeu de poker internetjeu de streap pokersalles de poker en lignejouer au poker francaisvente de jeu de pokerpoker gratuites hors lignejouer au poker texaspoker fr onlineregle de jeu de pokercomment télécharger jeu pokerjouer online poker touroù jouer au poker en lignele poker online françaisvente jeu de pokerpoker gratuites compoker tour gratuitesjeu poker holdem gratuitespoker 770jeu gratuites poker holdtelecharger poker en ligne gratuitesjouer texas holdem gratuitespro poker tourjeux poker a telechargerjeux gratuitsstud poker casinojeu poker tour en ligneworld poker compoker a jouer gratuitementpoker on line gratuitesjeux tour de pokerpoker gratuites sur macpoker en ligne mac ospai gow poker paginas internetpoker casinono deposit bonus pokerfichas poquerdouble bonus poker downloadpoker paginas webjoker pokerpoquer de dadosjuegos strep pokerpoquer comwww poli poquerpai gow poker onlinejuego omaha poker ready for a little nap to help rejuvenate. No luck – the lab floor was quite cold, and worse my mind was racing along from all the aforementioned coffee. So after 2 hours, with only 30 minutes of real sleep, it’s time to get up, change into some clean clothes, and see what can be made of the day.

On the plus side, the majority of the code is working – just not correctly. I’m supposed to be writing/reading to/from the Real Time Clock (RTC) over the I²C bus on the board we have. And It seems to be responding correctly with the right ACKs and everything – but the data comes back as zeros…even if I manually set the clock to something other than zero (which it ACKs). Oh well, the code has some impressive sloccount stats for a 1-night code session I suppose: 1 person for 3 weeks. Not bad for 12-hours start-to-finish! At least I know how it’s supposed to work!

I need coffee….and nothing it open on campus yet….