A month or two ago I wrote a little script that starts saving HTTP_REFERER when people visit my site, looking for search strings from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This is similar to one of the results Webalizer gives, but Webalizer seems to seriously undercount searches for my site. I wanted to get a […]

As 73 other blogs already mentioned, you don’t need XGL to run Beryl any longer if you use the beta nvidia-drivers in Portage (which are currently quite masked). This is pretty nice because the last version of XGL that worked for me was from July. I’ve had to mask every one since then. […]

I noticed recently some (new?) feature of Google where it stores your search history and then personalizes your search results somehow based upon your stored history. When using this, Google by default stores all search results any time you do a search while logged in. You can also browse through your history and […]

I’ve blabbered on quite a bit about finding a good webmail client since I ditched Gmail. I am enjoying being free of ads and knowing my email is not being stored / used / read by some corporation. Well, except potentially by the company that hosts my website. And by my ISP. […]

After two years of using Gmail, I have exactly 5,531 emails. These are all sitting on some server who knows where, and getting them all off of there and onto my own server was an interesting task.
It turned out to be pretty easy thanks to Thunderbird. If you enable POP in Gmail, you […]

My host comes with Squirrelmail and Horde, and I dislike them both. Squirrelmail is too bare-bones for me. It’s hideous to look at. And Horde is too over-the-top and slow for me. It takes about 17 clicks to get to the inbox once you log in. No call for that.
Really, […]

Email is such a fragile thing. It’s nerve-wracking setting up an email server properly. If you set it up wrong, emails disappear into a black hole and it’s sometimes not readily obvious that there’s even a problem, especially if the emails don’t even bounce. Same goes with setting up a procmail filter, […]

So today at work, Gmail suddenly died. I couldn’t log on to the Gmail webpage, and it was giving a “File Not Found” error instead of an actual Gmail error page. I tried logging on to Google in every way I could think of, and nothing worked. I tried logging on to […]