Category: General

It’s canoeing season again! I blame kittycat for posting some amazing pictures of her new canoes…

Apple is now offering RSS feeds for their mailing lists. Some of the busy lists are updated hourly, the rest are updated daily.

Apple – Mailing Lists – RSS Feeds

Spotted on Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools, a refillable compressed air canister.

Without using ipfw. I wanted to have Personal Web Sharing on, but block access to it on the firewall. When I tried to change it in the Firewall tab in System Preferences I got a sheet saying, “You cannot change the firewall settings for this service.” So I went off and found that the settings are stored in
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist

Once I opened it I discovered I could change the ‘editable’ value:

<key>Personal Web Sharing</key>
<dict>
<key>editable</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>enable</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>port</key>
<array>
<string>80</string>

I set it to 1, saved it, and re-opened System Preferences Firewall Tab. I could now disable access to port 80 through the firewall, while leaving me free to continue fiddling with my internal website.

The Ansari XPrize foundation just announced that the scheduled time for SpaceShipOne’s second launch is now confirmed for on October 4th, 2004, at 7:00am. If this attempt goes as well as yesterday’s, Burt Rutan and Paul Allen’s team will win the $10 million global competition. Link to announcement.

(Via Boing Boing.)

The top 10 ways you are likely to get hit by a car while bike riding, and how to avoid them.

Get lights.

Ride as if you are invisible.

Take up the whole lane when appropriate.

Bicycle Safety: How to Not Get Hit by Cars

Article: Cigarettes more polluting than diesel exhaust | New Scientist
Cigarettes more polluting than diesel exhaust

… and we thought making smokers go outside was a good thing.

I was looking at hammocks online today… seeing as it has been a regular topic during camping discussions.

Since our Brazilian Hammock disappeared during one of our many moves I figured I’d go see if I could find one online. hammocks.com page with Brazilian models. The one we had was a Large one with a fringe. No spreader bars, thanks! I prefer being able to hide out in the hammock. ” Made from 100% soft, stretchy cotton fabric, this traditional Brazilian hammock is cozy enough for one and spacious enough for the family.” Rated to 450 lbs as well.

Of course finding that just got me jonesing for a *real* hammock, something useable for camping. My friend Adam has a Hennessey Hammock and loves it, so I went there first. Huh. They have a new model, the Hennessey Supershelter. It’s a 4 season hammock system! Sold out and back ordered already.. and I haven’t even gotten past the intro.

For links to many hammocks and experiences with them head over to Sgt. Rock’s Hiking HQ.

I also like the IMPS-NETâ„¢ COMBAT & SURVIVAL NET. The Individual Multi-Purpose Net can be rigged up as a fishing net, personal camouflage, stretcher, storage bag and more… looks like a good addition to my pack, and for only $12.99 too! Needs a better acronym though, something with ‘nap’ in it..

… go in to the System Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse PrefPane, Keyboard Shortcuts and add an Application Shortcut for Safari. The menu item is ‘Quit Safari’ and I used Command-Option-Q as the new shortcut.

Now I don’t have to worry about quitting Safari accidentally while I have a bunch of Tabs open!

I was looking through my sent mail yesterday, wondering if I had really sent an email to someone.. as I had yet to see a response. It turns out I had sent it several weeks ago. So, what happened at their end? Did my email get ignored? Vanish? Filtered out as spam?

Now I am left wondering how I would go about tracking my own emails to see if the person at the other end is even getting them.

Comments? Suggestions?