Monthly Archives: May 2009

Horde’s Idiotic Email Interface

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Jim

I use Horde for my web-based email here at mischel.com.  Not because I particularly like it, but because it’s the best of the three options I’m given by my ISP.  The other two options are Squirrel Mail (aptly tagged “Webmail … Continue reading →

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Solid state storage

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Jim

I still have a hard time referring to the new crop of mass storage devices as “flash drives.” The “flash” part is correct, seeing as they’re built with flash memory, but the “drive” part is just … wrong. There aren’t … Continue reading →

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The Foot

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Jim

A while back, a wind storm tore a branch from one of our elm trees.  Figuring it’d make good fodder for my new found carving hobby, I trimmed it, stripped the bark, and put it up in the rafters of … Continue reading →

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Kameeke, April 15 1989 – May 16 2009

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Jim

Kameeke got her name from the little boy next door whose attempt to say “come here, kitty” sounded like “ka mee kee.”  Debra acquired the cat in early June of 1989, about two months before we met. Kameeke had been a … Continue reading →

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On the road again

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Jim

It’s been a long trip—about two weeks longer than we expected it to be.  But that’s the way these things go sometimes.  Debra’s dad was in the hospital, in a rehab facility, in ICU after a procedure called kyphoplasty, and … Continue reading →

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