Archive for June, 2003

2003

25

Jun

iMail in Panther

By Gaz under Technology

I stumbled across Apple’s Panther preview today, and was delighted to see that they appear to have put decent threading into the next version of iMail. The only MUA’s I’ve found that do message threading properly are Emacs Gnus and Mutt: but I’m running OS X dammit! I want a spiffy integrated graphical mail client, [...]

2003

21

Jun

New Digital Camera with iPhoto

By Gaz under Technology

Today I bought a Canon A40 digital camera from the new Apple Store in Birmingham. I haven’t used one before, but after a bit of fiddling I managed to take a couple of photos. I’m delighted to say that when I plugged it into the USB port on my iBook, iPhoto launched and I downloaded [...]

2003

18

Jun

M4 Module API Hacking

By Gaz under Programming

I had forgotten how slipshod the module api was until I really started to pull it apart this week. There is plenty here to keep me busy for a few weeks more. I need to rationalise everything in m4module.h to give a clean api that won’t need to change incompatibly with the next release. Once [...]

2003

15

Jun

English Championships

By Gaz under Martial Arts

Today was the English Tae Kwon Do Championships, with a pretty low attendance thanks to it also being Fathers Day. I didn’t think my performance of GwangGae was as good as the Midlands, but the judges seemed to like it and gave me 9.0 average — so I missed bronze by 0.1 [...]

2003

10

Jun

Bike Parts

By Gaz under Bikes & Cars

Well, well, well. Wonders will never cease. In the mail today I found a replacement footpeg from Three Cross! A mere 27 weeks from order to delivery. What a joke! Three Cross, your customer service sucks. I’ve probably said it before, but even though the bike itself is a dream come true, I will never [...]

2003

1

Jun

Harry on Fire

By Gaz under Music, Travel

115 My landlord (and drummer in my band) took his newly restored and MOTed 1972 VW Camper (Harry) to Newquay with his girlfriend this weekend, but on the way back the engine compartment caught fire and within minutes the whole van went up in flames. He gave me some photos of the incident.