Disqus - Friends of yuiichi

Re: Does Gmail filter spam?

houltmac — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:58:41 -0000

Like I said, I want to love Gmail, but much of my spam now ends up in the inbox, or worse still it bypasses the inbox and heads right for the all mail archive. Nothing I want is ever filtered, but it just doesn't seem to filter more than around 70% anymore. Perhaps something is wrong with my account, or perhaps it's just in a huff because I don't use it enough. Either way it doesn't like me right now.

It would also be handy if they got the IMAP to work properly, so you can actually use it. I want to use it.

Re: CoverSutra & Last•FM

houltmac — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:13:22 -0000

I looked at CoverSutra the other day but it seemed like it was a lot of flair for something I just want sat in the background, unseen. That said, CoverSutra was starting to grate in that I couldn't turn off the artwork when I switched tracks. I am now testing CoverStream which seems to allow me to do this. It seems like a huge step forward, even if I won't use 95% of the capabilities.

Re: 25-in-1

houltmac — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:21:14 -0000

From that point of view I can see what you mean, but I have two reasons right here:

1. They are ugly, no two ways about it
2. Displays look cooler when you plug a huge video camera into a Mac Pro than just a little SD card

Re: My Life In a Cube :: So Depressing It's Almost Funny

houltmac — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:55:28 -0000

Literally pissing away time! Haha. I've really enjoyed your little comics over the past week since I found them, thanks for taking the time.

Re: Learn 5.1 from Dolby

houltmac — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:09:47 -0000

Good to know the blog has helped someone, somehow. :)

Re: Crispy Tea Leaf

houltmac — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:38:31 -0000

I have to adree with halogoggles, it was nice to have a single tea in an episode. It was also quite funny to see the lid fall off since I am new to tea and it's good to know I'm not the only one who can make mistakes.

Re: Tea order arrived!

houltmac — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:23:34 -0000

Thanks for your input, Pat, it's appreciated. I am using a little more than I did previously now and it's tasting a little better. Measuring or guessing a teaspoon is easy with fine grained leaves like in the herbals, but in the woodier black teas it's tough.

I am still getting used to not having sugar for sure, but I'm trying to work my way through that. The darker the better so far, I'll keep trying.

Re: Crispy Tea Leaf

houltmac — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:28:54 -0000

It's definitely been added to my list - thanks for the review. I have a bunch more teas on order, but it's on the list.

I got the "Tea infusing tube" from Leaf (www.leafshop.co.uk) yesterday and have been surprised and impressed. It works well, is clean and will make tea at work much easier. Might be worth a review sometime. Also, I'd be interested to know what you make of Adagio's Irish Breakfast since it's currently my favourite tea/

Re: TWIT [This Week In Tea]

houltmac — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:34:21 -0000

@phil It's a bit of both for sure, however it's more the tea I think. When you quit smoking the taste buds react within days, and they do so with a vengeance. Most of this is getting used to not drinking actual sugar (since the other sweet drinks I have are artificial) I think.

I am enjoying it though. Perhaps you should join me?

Re: From Heaven of Tea: Understanding Caffeine in Tea

houltmac — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:35:40 -0000

That's a good little round up. I can say from a VERY heavy coffee drinker turned tea drinker - the difference between a cup of black tea and a cup of strong coffee is huge. The % may look impressive, but the feeling you have by the middle of the week is drastically different.

Re: Burn movies to DVD?

houltmac — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:38:22 -0000

Thanks for the tips Luca, I will look into those apps.

Re: E-mail as an Alert System

houltmac — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:14:07 -0000

I have to agree with this completely. Tools like Twitter search and BackType allow the internet to become smaller, like RSS did before that. With discussion aggregation I think these services could overtake the syndication meme.

Re: Now Supporting Posterous

houltmac — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:25:01 -0000

This is what introduced me to BackType. Now I am addicted. Thanks!

Oh, and I just removed Disqus from my Tumblr because I couldn't keep track of comments. Great.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - wow.. new blog (http://danvesma.tumblr.com) got...

houltmac — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:39:16 -0000

You see, when you tell people they read ;)

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - happy 1234567890 day nerdos. watch this space for...

houltmac — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:25:46 -0000

No email to remind me meant that I forgot didn't I? Darn it!

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - new kindle looks better, but my oh my amazon can’t...

houltmac — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:34:14 -0000

Can you even get the kindle in the UK now?

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - lol, am 21217th most sweary twitter user! fuckers....

houltmac — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:41:41 -0000

Apparently I swear like a "Bad Golf Player". Bah. I am actually trying to do something about it IRL.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - This is a short video showing the socket server...

houltmac — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:21:21 -0000

Is this what you have been secretly working on?

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - Rainbow in the boardroom: i had to.

houltmac — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:13:07 -0000

That just had to be done!

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - new simpsons intro blows chunks. bring back coke...

houltmac — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:11:08 -0000

That sucked. Could've warned me.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - out web hosts are trying IMAP at our request, but...

houltmac — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:15:00 -0000

OMG! Teh suck.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - what? hereford? two? leeds? nill? crumbs - we’re...

houltmac — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:46:52 -0000

Don't get too cocky, we are talking about Hereford here after all.

Re: iLife 09

houltmac — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:33:06 -0000

It's working great here for me. It seems to me that it takes about 20 photos before it gets really good and things like glasses and long (face covering) hair can put it off.

I also hear that the ones you draw manually don't count towards making it smarter, only the auto-recognised ones.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - a good morning followed by a horrible afternoon. A...

houltmac — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:41:39 -0000

I'm off on Friday so if you have some time I'd like to see what setup you have right now. I never did come and see it at Christmas.

Re: Daniel A. Vesma - …and so the move from Thurderbird back to apple...

houltmac — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:04:07 -0000

Why the changes? How come you couldn't do hosted IMAP?