I’m sure there are some of these around already, but I have written a script to back up your Mailman mailing lists. It dumps the member roster and list configuration into separate text files, zips them up, emails them to you, and cleans up after itself. The script is called mailmanBackup.py, and its syntax is …
Author Archives: paulschreiber
MySpace and its shit-ass design
Sean Bonner rips into MySpace, calling out its poor usability (far, far too many clicks to do anything). Sean was inspired by Evan Williams’ analysis of how MySpace gets so many page views. Evan was in turn building on Mike Davidson’s analysis. Mike’s characterization of MySpace as an “Unnecessary Click Factory” is spot-on. Oh, and …
fun at the indy state fair
lyle writes: I heard and saw a lot of funny things yesterday… One of my favorite moments was when a carnie, upon seeing my camera, yelled to me, ” do you work for National Geographic or The Rolling Stones?” The Rolling Stones. Yes, I am walking around the Indiana State Fair, shooting pictures…because I work …
unix humor
Funny things you can do with the unix command line and linux sex positions.
Memory shopping
Rich: Oh… another thing… what memory does the Macbook take? I was thinking about getting a single 512mb memory card (simm… dimm… whatever they’re called these days) Paul: DDR2 PC2-5300 667 MHz wooha. Rich: I’m guessing ‘wooha’ isn’t a technical spec. :-) But with all the Korean OEMs you can never tell.
Happy Canada Day!
Happy Canada Day, everyone! In honour of this, I’ll share a few facts about Canada. Here’s the first one: Most Americans don’t know Canada is their biggest oil supplier: A new poll suggests that only a tiny minority of Americans — four per cent — know that Canada is the largest supplier of crude oil …
My daily WTF
The Daily WTF is a great source for humorous (and sometimes unbelievable) technical blunders. About six years ago (before PEAR and such), I wrote a simple OO wrapper around PHP’s mail() function. I haven’t really touched the code, but I did slap a CC license on it last year. Today, I got this email: From: …
Blueberry muffins
Ingredients 1.75 cups flour 0.75 cup sugar 1.5 tsp. baking powder 0.5 tsp. baking soda 0.75 cup orange juice 0.25 cup oil (canola) 1 egg 1.5 cups blueberries Directions Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine dry ingredients in bowl. In a separate bowl, beat together orange juice, oil and eggs—use a fork or wisk. Combine …
Sending email from cell phones
With my old Nokia 6340i, sending email was as easy as sending a text message — you selected Messages > Write e-mail in the menu, entered the email address, subject, text, and off it went. When I got my 6620, I was disappointed to find out that feature had been removed. Sending an email now …
Funny stories from England
British girl describes (in hilarious manner) her (mis)adventures. Stoeis include how to travel by coach, avoid “religious nutters,” and what to do when approached by women carrying clipboards. read more | digg story