On this, this chilly Michigan day, I share with you my list of hosting providers, for those good people out there of no account, or any of you who believe, in these uncertain and barbaric times, in the importance of a good host.
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I extended UsemodWiki to support making pages “public”. [what is a wiki, you ask?] I use my wiki as a “scratchpad,” as pheezy put it — a place to take notes, jot down ideas and lists of things to do, and generally keep handy snippets of text close at hand. My perl hacks to UsemodWiki […]

One shortcoming of Nokias in general and Nokia Lifeblog in particular, is the lame handling of call log data. My phone has a 64mb card, but it only stores the last 20 calls made. WTF is that?
I want my phone to have the option of logging every call made, missed, and received, ever! The […]

I’ve been thinking lately about images and thumbnails. Supporting images is a complete and total non-budgeable requirement for any software whose audience is real people. People connect with images. Period.
That means that we need to support image uploads, which could be a problem in terms of bandwidth and speed for users uploading from their mobile […]

humorously, for a new project i’m working on, i created a metadata inflater in perl. it’s raison d’etre is to convert nokia’s lifeblog-format SMS files to something we can load into our DB. nokia doesn’t store any of the relevant metadata within the SMS files, so since it’s only test data, i make up the […]