Archives for the month of: June, 2006

A Couple Photography References

June 17, 06 //
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Kathleen Connally

Kathleen Connally… what can I say? Fantastic! The colors are a little contrasty and the colors are a little over saturated but the combination really works. Katheen really has an eye for capturing her environs. She says in her bio… “Just about all of my photos (except vacation shots) are taken within a ten-mile radius of my home, and feature local residents, visitors, plants, animals, architecture, landscapes and farm life.” Seems a little corny until you see the images. Every image strives for a unique perspective on the subject. If you only check out one thing on the web today, see Kathleen’s “Best Pictures”. This is a cool presentation of her work.

Ken Rockwell has a huge “how-to” section that is a great reference for beginners and veterens alike. Ken has a real passion for photography and sharing his knowledge. His photography and the reference materal he has produced is a labor of love. Kudos Ken!

Marking and Jumping in VIM/GVIM

June 10, 06 //
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Wow! This article from Linux.com sheds light on some pretty cool ways to use vim/gvim. Found this via Thursday Night, thanks.

Additional references all by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier

Music in the moment

June 3, 06 //
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Great short video interview between Robert Wright and Joseph Goldstein about living in the moment. I don’t think Robert gets it. There are more ways to experince life than the usual conditioned experince we usually settle for. It is well worth a look at this 4 min video.

This is part of Slate’s  MeaningofLife.tv interview series. Good stuff!

Read system emails from your system using Thunderbird

June 3, 06 //
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Warning this is a geeky posting.

Ubuntu and other Linux systems automatically generate system messages for you about system status and maintanence chores. These messages often go overlooked because they are not easily read. These are the messages that are refered to when you open a terminal window and you see the message “You have new mail”.

I noticed a post over on the Ubuntu Blog explaining how to set up Evolution to receive these emails. Here is a way to set up Thunderbird (my current favorite email reader) so these system emails automatically come to my inbox.

  1. Set up a new account by going to the Edit drop down menu and selecting Account Settings
  2. Add Account and select Unix Mailspool (Movemail)
  3. You can set the account name to something memorable and change the email address if you want. These setting will not change how this works.
  4. That is all there is to it!! Easy as pie.

This account will now appear in Thunderbird and it will collect any mail in the your /var/mail or /var/spool/mail directory. You will have to change mode on the /var/mail directory to 01777. Open a terminal window and issue the command “sudo chmod 01777 /var/mail“. I’ve tested this on Thunderbird 1.5.0.2. If you have a different version of Thunderbird or a different Linux distro other than Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS, then your mileage will vary.