Archive for May, 2006

Gmail’s Archaic Export

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

I’ve been working on webaddressbook’s heretofore unannounced contact synchronization feature recently, and ran into a grindingly bad problem today trying to parse Gmail’s contact export CSV file.
According to Gmail, their format is better than the Outlook format because it allows you to preserve different character encodings.

Gmail CSV (for import into another Gmail account): formats your […]

Canon Pixma MP500 Setup for Linux

Friday, May 5th, 2006

For some reason I didn’t consider Linux compatibility when selecting the printer I would buy, and regretted it immediately. Preliminary post-purchase research on the internet seemed to indicate that most were not having much luck with the Canon Pixma MP500. I contacted Canon USA customer service stating firmly the case for linux drivers, only to […]

That’s it.

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Ahhh, that’s it. That’s America.
Sweeping down the long stretches of pavement, darkening air damp with the unmistakable scent of freshly-mowed grass. And all scents of spring color my thought. Mossy dead water. A skunk passed here. Freshly washed clothes out to dry. I push harder uphill, into a current of sweetness. The SUV’s zip by, […]


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