I Choose [Not] To Blog

… my emails are being kicked back at me with

Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 1: "IFS=' '&&exec /home/bloggermail/processmail2||exit 75 #bloggermail"

Java-Source.net : Open Source Software in Java(tm)

There’s also a C# sister site (if you’re into that sort of thing).

AND there is a similar directory at http://www.manageability.org/blog/opensource.

Ran across CutePDF Writera few days ago.
It’s very handy when you need an email-able printout or if you just want to save paper (and you aren’t running Linux, where you can usually print to postscript or PDF).

I’ve often wondered why I keep seeing the same pseudo-Latin text showing up in various demo applications and sites.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat…

Paul Graham

… I suspect if you had the sixteen year old Shakespeare or Einstein in school with you, they’d seem impressive, but not totally unlike your other friends.

Which is an uncomfortable thought. If they were just like us, then they had to work very hard to do what they did. And that’s one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. If these guys were able to do what they did only because of some magic Shakespeareness or Einsteinness, then it’s not our fault if we can’t do something as good.

I’m not saying there’s no such thing as genius. But if you’re trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

Can you identify the candy bars with the cross-sections?

(via http://www.jimmyjett.com)

Pretty handy filtering functionality. Gmail apparently ignores anything after a ‘+’ in the email address.
You can append ‘+<anything>’ to your Gmail username and send yourself an email. Then you can create a filter to automatically apply a label to emails sent to <username>+<anything>@gmail.com.

The Blogger Folks must be having some problems with this
functionality, because my experience is that sometimes the entries
make it in a timely manner (a couple minutes), sometimes very, very
late (hours and hours) or not at all…
I sent a post email yesterday about 3PM and it still hasn’t made it.