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Trend-Watcher http://www.trend-watcher.org/blog/1 olaf 2009-07-05T05:24:16Z woord van de dag http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/135 <p><em>draalloos</em></p><p>synoniem voor <em>onverwijld </em>(het woord van de week)</p> Dutch... Hollands...Nederlands 2009-07-03T15:01:10Z olaf Limerick of the day http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/134 <div><br /></div><div><strong>Waarschuwing</strong></div><div> </div><div>Aan meisjes met kokette laarsjes</div><div>voor een man die woont in De Baarsjes</div><div>wees  op je hoede</div><div>voor die engerd z'n roede</div><div>want hij steekt hem heel gaarne in aarsjes </div><div> </div><div><em> </em></div><div><em>(S</em><em>preek uit : k</em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><em>o</em></span><em>-kette in plaats van ko-k</em><span style="text-decoration: underline"><em>e</em></span><em>tte) </em></div> Limerick 2009-07-01T13:18:53Z olaf Marvelous Idea http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/133 <div><br /></div><div> </div><div>To be posted in the <a href="http://www.isoc.org/ietfjournal/" target="_blank">IETF Journal</a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><img src="http://www.secret-wg.org/IETF-Journal/IAB-Plenary-Marvelous-Idea-small.png" width="500" height="353" /> </div> Cartoons 2009-05-14T23:46:10Z olaf Welcome Wagon (Welcome to) http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/132 <p><span style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'lucida grande'">A few weeks ago I listened to "Welcome to the Welcome Wagon" on the excellent VPRO Luisterpaal (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/). I ordered the CD and today it has been delivered by mail.</span></p><p><img src="http://www.asthmatickitty.com/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=/images/releases/covers/AKR045_900.jpg&w=350&h=350&q=95" alt="Cover ARt" width="350" height="350" align="right" />The reason I happily pay a few extra bucks for a CD is that there is artwork included and in this case the artwork provides a little background about the work.</p><p>This album was recorded and produced by Sufjan Steven and his musical touch stands out. What I did not know is that the music was composed and performed by Pastor Vito Aiuto and his Monique Aiuto. The music classifies itself as folk/gospel.</p><p>I do not regularly look at music in the Gospel category. The reason is twofold. First the message does not appeal to me, and second, and more important, is that Gospel music is often stereotypical and not inspired.</p><p>This album is different. Although it clearly has a religious message it is inspired, made with the appropriate lower belly feelings, and sometimes has a touch of humor. The album is cleanly produced, lighthearted but still has balls. Proof? At the moment I wrote this paragraph the tune "American Legion" is played, it brings tears to my eyes...</p><p>While I do not believe in God there are emotions that one could classify as religious. Sometimes they are communicated through music. And while not true for all tracks this album contains such an examples.</p><p>Read more about "Welcome to the Welcome Wagon" at <a href="http://www.asthmatickitty.com/music.php?releaseID=114" target="_blank">Asthmatic Kitty Records</a>. </p><p>  </p><div><span style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'lucida grande'"><br /></span></div> Music 2009-01-16T14:13:51Z olaf Pillow Talk http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/131 <p> </p><blockquote class="code"> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> B</span>: I hate your guts<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> D</span>: Why? Do I remind you of yourself?<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> B</span>: Nah... you murdering sonofabitch. I only scare them, break their legs, and occasionally cause a cardiac arrest --frighten them to death-- while you continue to cross the line.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> D</span>: Which line, your line?<br /> I never cross my line. Harry's code helps me to ...<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> B</span>: Henry's fucking code. You working on my nerves, damned. It never takes more than 20 seconds before you bring up Henry's code. Its a damned lame excuse for your nocturnal cutting-a-psychopath tours.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> D</span>: And how are those different from your nocturnal scaring-a-psychopath tour?<br /> ... <span style="font-style: italic">[silence]</span>...<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold">D</span>: and his name is Harry, not Henry, you fuckface<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold">B</span>: You sound like your sister now<br /> .. <span style="font-style: italic">[silence]</span>...<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold">D</span>: According to the code I should kill you<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> B</span>: And I should make you relive your worst nightmare a dozen times... That kind of terror worked with others.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> D</span>: Not with me, not with me, thanks to Harry.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> B</span>: Fuck Harry.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> D</span>: Fuck you, Bruce<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> B</span>: Not today Dexter, sleep well.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold"> D</span>: sleep well, sweet dreams <br /></blockquote> Cartoons 2009-01-06T20:59:32Z olaf A Propos Bistro http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/130 <img src="http://www.secret-wg.org/BlogPics/A-Propos-Bistro.png" align="right" /><p>Last weekend I got  "A Propos Bistro" by Stephane Reynaud. A book with 299 mouth watering recipes, great pictures, great recipes, and a bit of humor. It is one of the best cookbooks that I've laid my hands on recently. Although I have not yet prepared any of the recipes they look straightforward and very standard. Very inspiring!</p> Food 2008-12-01T14:40:04Z olaf More Postbank Secure Code annoyances http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/129 <div><br /></div><div> Remember my previous post on <a href="http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/118" target="_blank">this topic</a>. I went back to the postbank site to see if things had improved. Turns out they have not. Here is a screenshot from the page explaining the SecureCode. Its all about the footnote (the last line on this screenshot).</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><img src="http://www.secret-wg.org/BlogPics/PostbankScrewUp/SecureCode-dec.png" alt="Postbank December " /></div><div>The last line reads: </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">Caution: When you click on this link you will be lead to a website that has no Postbank address. Check wether the address starts with https://postbank.arcot.com. With that you will have a safe connection to register your Secure code </span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>I will not be repeating my argument that notifying, from a non-http- secured page, to a https page breaks users expectation (why would you trust postbank.arcot.com over of <a href="https://www.trend-watcher.org/postbank.secure-bank-services.com" target="_blank">postbank.secure-bank-services.com</a>). Instead, I want to highlight that if you click on the link that displays "https://postbank.arcot.com/" you actually get redirected via a non secured link like  http://www.postbank.nl/ing/pp/page/external_link/redirect/0,3042,1859_180483_849292156,00.html?ExternalLinkId=849292156</div><div> </div><div>Again, that is unnecessarily  complex and confusing for users.</div><div> </div><blockquote> Controleer of het adres begint met <a class="body_text_link" href="https://www.trend-watcher.org/JavaScript:openWin('/ing/pp/page/external_link/redirect/0,3042,1859_180483_849292156,00.html?ExternalLinkId=849292156','arcot','scrollbars=yes,left=10,top=10,location=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=yes,status=yes,height=600,width=800');" target="_top" onclick="linkCode(this,'o','https://postbank.arcot.com - 849292156','849292156');">https://postbank.arcot.com</a>. Hiermee heeft u een veilige verbinding om uw SecureCode te registreren.   <div>   </div> <div>   </div></blockquote> Technical 2008-12-01T14:13:37Z olaf NAT 666 http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/127 <p>To appear in the <a href="http://www.isoc.org/ietfjournal/">IETF Journal</a> </p><p><img src="http://www.secret-wg.org/IETF-Journal/Nat666-small.png" /></p> Cartoons 2008-11-26T22:52:13Z olaf The First Principle of Adultery http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/126 <div> </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>The first principle of adultery:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic">Never make out with a liability </span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small">To answer the obvious question: No, this is not inspired on personal experience but on a recent conversation. </span></div> General 2008-11-22T15:17:17Z olaf From the Waste of Time Dept.: applescript IMAP nested folder creations http://www.trend-watcher.org/post/1/125 <p>This is for those folk in google land querying for "applescript make new mailbox Imap"</p><p>Today I finished my first applescript. Using components from several other scripts I set out on the following task.</p><p> </p><ul> <li>For all messages in a set of selected Imap folder <ul> <li>Find messages that originate from a mailinglist</li> <li>Apply heuristics to determine the domain of the mailinglist and the name of the mailinglist</li> <li>File the message in an IMAP folder with name "ArchiveRepository/domain.of.list/listname/<year>/<Quarter></li> </ul> </li></ul><p>One of the subtasks is to build the mailboxes in IMAP with these directory structures. Taking an existing example (The MailArchiveByDate scropt from Dough Hellman) I first took a left to right approach. Writing out what happens internally in a test script would look like:</p><blockquote class="code"> -- Emulating what would happen in the code loop:<br /> make at the end of the mailboxes of account (name of theAccount) new mailbox with properties {name:("ArchiveRepository")}<br /> make at the end of the mailboxes of account (name of theAccount) new mailbox with properties {name:("ArchiveRepository/domain.of.list")}<br /> make at the end of the mailboxes of account (name of theAccount) new mailbox with properties {name:("ArchiveRepository/domain.of.list/listname")}<br /> -- etc etc<br /></blockquote><p>In Doug's code functionality is achieved by:</p><blockquote class="code"> -- Find the month archive mailbox. If this does not<br /> -- exist, we create it.<br /> try<br /> set monthMailbox to (mailbox archiveMonth of yearMailbox)<br /> on error<br /> log "Creating " & archiveMonth & " mailbox"<br /> if imapAccountName is "" then<br /> make new mailbox with properties {name:mailboxName}<br /> else<br /> make at the end of the mailboxes of account imapAccountName new mailbox with properties {name:mailboxName}<br /> end if<br /> set monthMailbox to (mailbox archiveMonth of yearMailbox)<br /> end try<br /></blockquote><p>Unfortunately this does not seem to be portable to all IMAP servers. My email server generates an error when I try to CREATE "ArchiveRepository/domain.of.list" while "ArchiveRepository" already exists and is not a container of other mailboxes.</p><p>The obvious solution is create the mailbox using the full path, all the way to the last mailbox that will not be a container of mailboxes but of messages. An example is below:</p><blockquote class="code"> try<br /> set rootMailbox to mailbox ArchiveRoot of theAccount<br /> on error<br /> display dialog "Creating " & mailboxName & " mailbox in " & name of theAccount with icon 1<br /> make at the end of the mailboxes of account (name of theAccount) new mailbox with properties {name:(mailboxName)}<br /> set rootMailbox to mailbox ArchiveRoot of theAccount<br /> end try<br /> set ListDomainBox to my ReturnChildMailbox(rootMailbox, TheDomain, theAccount, mailboxName)<br /> set ListnameBox to my ReturnChildMailbox(ListDomainBox, TheListName, theAccount, mailboxName)<br /> set YearBox to my ReturnChildMailbox(ListnameBox, archiveYear, theAccount, mailboxName)<br /> set QuarterBox to my ReturnChildMailbox(YearBox, Quarter, theAccount, mailboxName)<br /> log "Box set to " & name of QuarterBox as text move theMessage to QuarterBox</blockquote><p>Where ReturnChildMailbox does the appropriate creation</p><blockquote class="code"> on ReturnChildMailbox(ParentMailbox, childname, theAccount, FullPath)<br /> tell application "Mail"<br /> try<br /> set ChildMailbox to (mailbox childname of ParentMailbox)<br /> on error<br /> display dialog "Creating " & childname & " mailbox in " & name of ParentMailbox & return & FullPath with icon note<br /> make at the end of the mailboxes of account (name of theAccount) new mailbox with properties {name:(FullPath)}<br /> set ChildMailbox to (mailbox childname of ParentMailbox)<br /> end try<br /> end tell<br /> <br /> return ChildMailbox<br /> end ReturnChildMailbox<br /></blockquote><p>Maybe I'll post the script at some point ;-)</p> Technical 2008-11-12T15:21:51Z olaf