Shortly after I started Geocaching I discovered Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK). GSAK is an excellent database application that is geared towards tracking all of your caching activities. I rely on this one program to load thousands of caches into my GPSr, keep track of what I have found (as well hidden) and all of [...]
Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
20 Jan
Porting Your Phone Number To Google Voice
It looks like you can now port your favorite phone number to the Google Voice service. This is a welcome addition to all of the great functionality that this service offers. I’ve been using Google Voice since it was introduced so I don’t really have another number to give out. Google is testing out this service right [...]
18 Nov
Introducing WordPress
This is an excellent video introduction to the concepts of WordPress. Pay close attention to the open source principles and references that Matt makes. Those same ideas drive everything I do at work and online.
8 Oct
When Errors Become Works of Art
I remember when 404 and 500 errors were just that, error messages. We have all seen them when we try to browse to a website and we have trouble communicating with the remote server. They can be so much more though. When a 404 error lives up to its full potential the result can be [...]
30 Sep
Threading The Conversation Needle
My latest article is up on the Faith & Technology Blog. I discuss the recent Priority Inbox and Conversation View changes in Google Apps and Gmail. Now it’s time to start thinking about the next topic!
30 Aug
SSL Identification Errors
Our clergy e-mail server at work is running a Thawte SSL123 certificate for securing all webmail, POP/SSL and SMTP/SSL traffic. They have been an excellent certificate authority and we have used them for several years now. Unfortunately, the certificate in question expired over the weekend. I was supposed to renew it late Saturday night or [...]
12 Aug
Red Link of Death
Leave it to Google to come up with interesting new things. I downloaded the latest version of Chrome and noticed that several things have changed. You can now synchronize extensions and preferences across browsers. The best part though is the new graphic for SSL certificates: This is the graphic that you now see when you [...]
2 Aug
Roadrunner Issue Resolved
The Roadrunner delivery issue at work has been resolved. I waited all weekend to see if our e-mail would deliver. Roadrunner’s block on our IP address was never removed. I sent an e-mail address to postmaster@rr.com with no luck. There isn’t even an autoreply configured for that account. All of the other major ISP’s resumed [...]
30 Jul
Concurrent Connections
I have noticed over the last few days that we have had Roadrunner messages in our main e-mail gateway stuck in our queue with the following error: 56FE71501A1C 1695 Fri Jul 30 08:32:19 noreply@nowhere.com (host hrndva-smtpin02.mail.rr.com[71.74.56.244] refused to talk to me: 421 4.7.1 – Connection refused – - Too many concurrent connections from source IP) [...]
