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Gentle reader,
This server has gotten so slow,
probably thanks to Philip's blog, that
I have finally decided to put up my own server elsewhere.  Other
reasons are:

I can't use vim here to edit my entries.
I hate the HTML munging that this blog software uses.
Despite
the PageRank boost of the .harvard.edu domain, I have decided to opt
for the branding aspect [...]

If you use Class::MethodMaker and have a subtle error in your
use Class::MethodMaker [ whatever...];
line, such as not quoting a bareword, you can end up with this error:
Unknown errorCompilation failed in require.BEGIN failed–compilation aborted.
If this happens, scrutinize your “use” lines and especially your C:MM line.If you use Class::MethodMaker and have a subtle error in your
use Class::MethodMaker [...]

If you see “There was an error opening this document.  A temporary file could not be opened.” when trying to open a PDF file, you may need to clean out C:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMELocal SettingsTempAcr*.tmp
Cheers to “gprellwitz” who suggests this here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Graphics/Adobe_Acrobat/Q_20790405.html
Jeers to the MSFT developer who decided that “Documents and Settings” with spaces and mixed caps [...]

ActiveRecord (latest versions of ODBC, DBI, and AR as of today
2005-12-01) seems to be having trouble with at least two things that
SQL Server 7 does:
1. The SQL Server adaptor (sqlserver_adaptor.rb) get_table_name sub
expects a name to have no whitespace in it.  The conditional and
regex need to be changed to look for bracketed names like [Poorly
Designed Table].  [...]

If you hook up an external monitor to your Mac OS X machine and run Excel 2004 for Mac on it, you might move your toolbars completely or partially over to the second desktop area. If you then remove the external monitor, it is possible for the toolbars to get “stuck” such that only [...]

I am trying to sync my contact information between apps and machines. Here are my absolute, non-negotiable requirements:
(“Works
with” means I can round-trip in the given format — not necessarily
that it is native, and it's OK if I have to use a tool or a script
intermediary since I'll be scripting this stuff anyhow.)
1. Works with [...]

If you are a small business with a Profit Sharing Plan / defined
benefit plan set up through an independent benefit advisor firm,
someone may have counseled you to set up your investments at
Fidelity.  They will create a “Non-prototype retirement account”
in the name of your Profit Sharing Plan trust.  You can make
trades and do what you will [...]

The MD5 hash function is dangerously unusable at this point.  I
was under the impression, casually following crypto over the last
couple years, that it was weak but likely “good enough” for
non-military, non-banking types of applications.  Dead wrong.
There are now known attacks — and doubtless toolchains for specific
exploits — that permit creating two completely different (but valid)
pieces [...]

Portland, Oregon is working toward a citywide, privately-operated
wireless network, under a public-private partnership model that
leverages city rights-of-way, among other assets, in return for certain
“public benefits.”  I strongly support this effort (the “Unwire
Portland” project).
The issue at hand is that the currently-proposed public benefit
structure is to create a “walled garden” of hand-picked sites that will
be freely available [...]

The Perl module Mail::Mailer, and those modules that rely upon it (at
least, Mail::Internet and MIME::Entity), have an undocumented fork that
can wreak havoc with your code if you call the send() method within an
eval {} block.  The solution is to either be very anal about
checking for PIDs or to use a different means for sending your
messages, [...]