Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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SPAM Filtering
I get a lot of SPAM. I’ve had the same e-mail address for 10 years, and I don’t hide it. In general, I’m very happy with a combination of spamassassin running on the server, and OS X Mail.app’s SPAM filtering on the client. In order to avoid losing false positives I have a Junk folder…
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Travel Gear
As part of putting off actually writing about the trip, a task which still seems far too monumental to be attacked successfully, I’m going extoll some of the great gear which I really appreciated during this trip. First is luggage. You can’t really travel without carrying something with you. I used my Tom Bihn Id…
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French Croissants
I’m sitting in my local coffeehouse, Diva Espresso, which by most measures is a great place. However, I’ve just choked down a croissant. Before I went to La Napoule in the South of France, I liked their pastries. Now that I’ve eaten the croissants and pan au chocolates from multiple cafes in the South of…
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France
I spent a week in the South of France with my wife and her family. It was amazing! I haven’t posted about it yet, because it’s hard to figure out what to say. It was an amazing week, full of cool experiences to relate. Way too much to put into a single blog post. Here’s…
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YouTube Gets Stuck After 2 Seconds
I recently started having an issue with YouTube playing a video without sound for 2 seconds, then stopping. This is a new laptop, so everything is fresh and new, leaving me with a ton of potential culprits: OS X, Safari 3.1.1, Flash, network, Perian, etc…. Googling showed that other people were having this issue across…
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Updates to the ATG RSS Feed Module
Thanks to Doug Henderson sending me some code updates I have released a new version of the RSS Feed Droplet (first mentioned in this post) which supports configurable character encodings. This can be very useful if you have “interesting” characters in the content you are publishing. I have also rolled the code into my ATG…
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