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My longtime friend & ever patient part-time Audi Engineer has taken the plunge and gone online: http://www.just9s.plus.com/

So your sitting the departure lounge of one of the “silent” airports, like most airports these days are, and all the seats facing the departure screens (the ones telling you which gate to go to..) are full, so you grab a seat else where, whip out the laptop like you were going to anyway, logonto the local WiFi provider, and as part of the service, you get a little ticker telling you about the flights, you could even tell it about your flight so that it only bugs you when your flight is being called!

I just came across a neat piece of software from ThinkFree, the ThinkFree Office Online. Which is a very neat piece of software, I’ve only used it on a Debian Linux box, but it’s all Java based by the looks of it, so it should run just sweetly on Windows & OSX etc. It’s not AJAX based, the latest craze in browser based apps, but it does a hell of a lot more that your average AJAX app, and looks amazingly similar to Microsoft Office XP/2003.

Bruce Schnier spotted this: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/internet_explor.html IE was unsafe for 98% of 2004. Firefox on Windows was unsafe for 7% of 2004.

May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead. You can find more here.

After I made the move from mutt, which is one of the most customizable email tools for power users, one of the features I missed the most was ignore & unignore statements, which allow you to control what headers get shown. For a while I have been using a button/extension called “View Headers Toggle Button”, then I found mnenhy, which allows you to pick & choose which headers you get to view in the normal email reading window.

Grrr, I always forget to install this when using cyrus & sieve on debian!

I’ve just moved jobs, to a predominantly Microsoft shop, so I’m getting used to using Outlook & Exchange again, after about a 5 year break. Exchange always had it’s good points, but some of those good points come with nasties, the whole calendaring & scheduling thing is great, although you have to use Outlook (or OWA) to take advantage of any of it, and there’s the rub, Outlook as an email client is woeful, top-posting is just plain wrong & stupid.

I was travelling back from Paris today, so I checked out of the hotel and headed towards the nearest Metro station to buy a ticket to CDG, actually I was contemplating only getting a ticket as far as Gard du Nord, dropping my bags there and doing a little sight seeing/shopping, when a local (we’ll, I assume he was local..) saw me stuck at the automatic ticket machine. He asked if I was going to the airport and showed me that I could buy a ticket that took me the whole way to CDG, I already knew this, but didn’t fancy trying to explain that I only wanted to go as far as Gard du Nord at this point, so I gratiously accepted his advice and proceeded to try and buy my ticket.

I’m in Paris for the week, staying in the Holiday Inn Opera, I’m here for a course on a new service we are going to be offering..