Year: 2008

  • Bank of America Fraud Protection Sucks

    Normally I’m all for Fraud Protection and security and all that stuff.  But Bank of America takes it to an awful new level. I was doing some online Christmas shopping while watching a movie here tonight.  On one of the purchases my Bank of America MasterCard was rejected, so I used another card. Then Bank…

  • Woodshed

    This past weekend, with TONS of help from my father-in-law and my wife, I built a woodshed.  I built it off the back of an existing shed on the property which mostly hides it from view and meant I didn’t have to build a back wall for it.  It will hold over two cords of…

  • Please Stop Using Yahoo Mail

    Yahoo mail servers have been consistently delaying or rejecting e-mails for over a year. You can read about it here: http://www.ahfx.net/weblog.php?article=107 Or just Google for “4.16.50”. The short of it is that even with a low volume personal mail server, with the correct spf records, without running an open relay, without being blacklisted by ANY…

  • Free Seam Cheat Sheet

    DZone has released a free Seam Cheat Sheet Refcard: http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/core-seam If you’re using Seam it’s definitely worth a download. It is a very quick way to look up all of the commonly used annotations you might want, the schema URIs for various libraries, etc… Give it a look-see!

  • Server Migration

    I’ve just moved a number of websites, web applications, email domains, etc.. to a new server. So if something isn’t working right, please let me know! Ideally things will be faster and more stable.

  • Back from Chicago

    I was on-site in Bolingbrook, IL, a suburb of Chicago all of last week.  I stayed at the La Quinta this time.  On the upside, the wireless internet actually worked, whereas my last hotel had no working internet.  On the downside the entrance looked like this:     When I arrived at 11 PM, garbage…

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