<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from blog.glen-martin.com</title><rights>Copyright 2010 blog.glen-martin.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2010-08-23T21:03:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2010:1</id><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2010-05-11:links.412209297</id><title>Ironic spam</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/we_have_stopped_sending_you_mails.htm"><![CDATA[Is an email still spam when it says they stopped (past tense) sending you e-mails?]]></content><dc:subject>spam</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/we_have_stopped_sending_you_mails.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2010-05-11T15:53:00Z</updated><published>2010-05-11T15:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2010-05-10:links.412209141</id><title>Lemonade for teachers</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/lemonade_for_teachers.htm"><![CDATA[Remember lemonade stands? We used to have them to make a little spending money. Now kids have them to give the money away.]]></content><dc:subject>school funding</dc:subject><dc:subject>fundraising</dc:subject><dc:subject>pta</dc:subject><dc:subject>lemonade stand</dc:subject><dc:subject>bake sales</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/lemonade_for_teachers.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2010-05-10T13:46:00Z</updated><published>2010-05-10T13:46:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2010-05-08:links.412209057</id><title>Thunderbird with IMAP hangs during new message scan</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/thunderbird_imap_annoyance.htm"><![CDATA[Email composition in Thunderbird hangs on checking for new messages. Still.]]></content><dc:subject>email</dc:subject><dc:subject>thunderbird</dc:subject><dc:subject>imap</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/thunderbird_imap_annoyance.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2010-05-08T17:54:00Z</updated><published>2010-05-08T17:54:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2010-04-28:links.412208008</id><title>Flush with alacrity</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/flush_with_alacrity.htm"><![CDATA[Can a Japanese industrial powerhouse offer anything to wilderness vacation zealots like me?]]></content><dc:subject>neorest</dc:subject><dc:subject>outhouse</dc:subject><dc:subject>camping</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/flush_with_alacrity.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2010-04-28T22:48:00Z</updated><published>2010-04-28T22:48:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2010-04-26:links.412207617</id><title>Eyestrain and desktop colours</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/eyestrain_and_desktop_colours.htm"><![CDATA[Ever try to get a consistent white-on-black colour scheme across your desktop and all applications?]]></content><dc:subject>palette</dc:subject><dc:subject>color scheme</dc:subject><dc:subject>styles</dc:subject><dc:subject>firefox</dc:subject><dc:subject>thunderbird</dc:subject><dc:subject>linux</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/eyestrain_and_desktop_colours.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2010-04-26T15:58:00Z</updated><published>2010-04-26T15:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2010-04-24:links.1373034</id><title>My pet&apos;s name is too short</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/challenge_questions.htm"><![CDATA[Please let me put off explaining password strength to my kids for another few years. Maybe once they're walking.]]></content><dc:subject>password strength</dc:subject><dc:subject>challenge questions</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/challenge_questions.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2010-04-24T16:56:00Z</updated><published>2010-04-24T16:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2010-04-23:links.412207489</id><title>After Upgrading, or why I still use Gentoo</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/after_upgrading_or_why_i_still_use_gentoo.htm"><![CDATA[Another blogger told a story of how his Gentoo system didn&#39;t perform all that well when he chose builds from unstable. While these are painful, for me Gentoo is no worse than other distros in this, and solved some problems for me.]]></content><dc:subject>gentoo</dc:subject><dc:subject>dependencies</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/after_upgrading_or_why_i_still_use_gentoo.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2010-04-23T13:52:00Z</updated><published>2010-04-23T13:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2009-09-30:links.412184679</id><title>Irony-R-Us: distraction</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/ironyrus_distraction.htm"><![CDATA[Driving to work this morning, I heard something about a new law against texting and emailing while driving. Unfortunately I didn't catch the details, I was checking email at the time.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/ironyrus_distraction.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2009-09-30T16:51:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-30T16:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2008-11-08:links.412138096</id><title>Overbite in web pages</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/overbite_in_web_pages.htm"><![CDATA[Remember when 'engineer' was a verb?]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/overbite_in_web_pages.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2008-11-08T18:16:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-08T18:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2008-10-30:links.412136403</id><title>Double Barrel</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/double_barrel.htm"><![CDATA[My "Double Barrel Palin Ail" (puns intended) won best name at Brew-Ha-Ha 15 last weekend.]]></content><dc:subject>homebrew</dc:subject><dc:subject>palin</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/double_barrel.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2008-10-30T16:12:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-30T16:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2008-06-05:links.412107719</id><title>switcher-backer</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/switcherbacker.htm"><![CDATA[A friend switched to a Mac and is waxing rhapsodic. Me, I switched a few months ago, and while there are things I like, there are lots that I don't. Is Mac better for a business user? Not sure. But yes, it is pretty.]]></content><dc:subject>macbook</dc:subject><dc:subject>user experience</dc:subject><dc:subject>laptop</dc:subject><dc:subject>gotomeeting</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/switcherbacker.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2008-06-05T16:06:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-05T16:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2008-02-18:links.412084391</id><title>Tool for requirements management - not</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/requirements_management.htm"><![CDATA[Sorry to disappoint, but requirements management means more than just capturing, saving and listing requests.]]></content><dc:subject>product management</dc:subject><dc:subject>requirements</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/requirements_management.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2008-02-18T17:49:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-18T17:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2007-08-18:links.412032116</id><title>iTunes and remote media via NFS, not SAMBA</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_not_samba.htm"><![CDATA[Lots of time in Google didn't help at all in solving my pain with iTunes and my Samba server, but this morning I had a flash of insight and replaced SAMBA with NFS Client for Windows. Life is good.]]></content><dc:subject>itunes</dc:subject><dc:subject>samba</dc:subject><dc:subject>nfs client</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_not_samba.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2007-08-18T20:47:00Z</updated><published>2007-08-18T20:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2007-04-11:links.411980677</id><title>iTunes store and country restrictions</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_country_restrictions.htm"><![CDATA[Maybe I've been giving Apple a bum rap. Recent antitrust investigation of Apple for country restrictions seems misguided at best. I still won't by DRM-protected content, but I'll quit blaming Apple for all iTunes ills.]]></content><dc:subject>itunes</dc:subject><dc:subject>apple</dc:subject><dc:subject>country licensing</dc:subject><dc:subject>region encoded</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_country_restrictions.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2007-04-11T13:29:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-11T13:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2007-03-25:links.411972280</id><title>Yahoo footer turns a meal (well, email) into spam</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/yahoo_footer_spam.htm"><![CDATA[Yahoo injects marketing messages in footer of emails sent by users of its service. These can trigger spam filters, so recipients don't get them, and should, but probably doesn't, violate anti-spam legislation.]]></content><dc:subject>spam</dc:subject><dc:subject>yahoo</dc:subject><dc:subject>optout</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/yahoo_footer_spam.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2007-03-25T16:24:00Z</updated><published>2007-03-25T16:24:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2007-03-24:links.411972254</id><title>Nash strategy and public health</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/nash_productivity.htm"><![CDATA[Nash equilibrium is rarely the best possible outcome. What is the effect of Nash strategy on disease and national productivity?]]></content><dc:subject>nash strategy</dc:subject><dc:subject>productivity</dc:subject><dc:subject>trade imbalance</dc:subject><dc:subject>vaccination</dc:subject><dc:subject>prisoners dilemma</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/nash_productivity.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2007-03-24T19:25:00Z</updated><published>2007-03-24T19:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-10-27:links.411844762</id><title>401Ks and other registered plans are not always the best retirement savings vehicles</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/registered_plans_future_taxes.htm"><![CDATA[For those with long retirement horizons, or with large mortgages or other itemized deductables, a 401K may not always be a good idea.]]></content><dc:subject>retirement</dc:subject><dc:subject>savings</dc:subject><dc:subject>401k</dc:subject><dc:subject>boomer</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/registered_plans_future_taxes.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-10-27T16:12:00Z</updated><published>2006-10-27T16:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-10-27:links.411844600</id><title>Options backdating is not always unreasonable</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/speculative_backdating.htm"><![CDATA[Despite a furore in the media about options backdating, backdating itself isn't illegal as such. And sometimes it makes sense.]]></content><dc:subject>options backdating</dc:subject><dc:subject>stock options</dc:subject><dc:subject>speculation</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/speculative_backdating.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-10-27T13:05:00Z</updated><published>2006-10-27T13:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-10-22:links.411839725</id><title>Who me? Bitter?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/who_me_bitter.htm"><![CDATA[Another open-source homebrew, another t-shirt.]]></content><dc:subject>homebrew</dc:subject><dc:subject>hop head</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/who_me_bitter.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-10-22T18:19:00Z</updated><published>2006-10-22T18:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-10-06:links.411823853</id><title>A9 and Google</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/innovators_a9.htm"><![CDATA[Innovators dilemma alive and well in sponsored links.]]></content><dc:subject>search</dc:subject><dc:subject>innovators dilemma</dc:subject><dc:subject>google</dc:subject><dc:subject>a9</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/innovators_a9.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-10-06T14:45:00Z</updated><published>2006-10-06T14:45:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-09-29:links.411815810</id><title>Minimalist OK Go videos</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/okgo.htm"><![CDATA[Things found by roadside, sure, but really funny. I'm laughing my proverbial ass off]]></content><dc:subject>ok go</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/okgo.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-09-29T20:37:00Z</updated><published>2006-09-29T20:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-09-22:links.411809966</id><title>Data theft is criminal - loss should be as well</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/criminal_data_loss.htm"><![CDATA[Here's a thought - make loss of media containing personal data of customers or citizens a criminal offense. Especially if the data are unencrypted.]]></content><dc:subject>data loss</dc:subject><dc:subject>identity theft</dc:subject><dc:subject>government</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/criminal_data_loss.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-09-22T15:08:00Z</updated><published>2006-09-22T15:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-09-11:links.411801366</id><title>Bogus Patents: it ain&apos;t just software</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/drug_patents.htm"><![CDATA[Many have said that patents on software are reprehensible, immoral and probably fattening. Beyond software, patents on drugs seem to have some similar issues.]]></content><dc:subject>patents</dc:subject><dc:subject>generic drugs</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/drug_patents.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-09-11T16:24:00Z</updated><published>2006-09-11T16:24:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-09-10:links.411800678</id><title>Forcing late payments</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/visa_payments.htm"><![CDATA[Credit card online payment system doesn't permit payment of forward-looking balance. Accident, or deliberate?]]></content><dc:subject>cardmember agreement</dc:subject><dc:subject>online payments</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/visa_payments.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-09-10T20:50:00Z</updated><published>2006-09-10T20:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:blog.glen-martin.com,2006-09-09:links.411799818</id><title>Can childhood survive multiculturalism?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://blog.glen-martin.com/protecting_childhood.htm"><![CDATA[Can we keep some of the magic in childhood, or are we trending to a lowest-common-denominator in which kids with different backgrounds are bursting all the bubbles and exposing all the gritty truths?]]></content><dc:subject>childhood</dc:subject><dc:subject>multiculturalism</dc:subject><dc:subject>protecting kids</dc:subject><dc:subject>santa claus</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.glen-martin.com/protecting_childhood.htm"/><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><author><name>glen martin</name></author><updated>2006-09-09T18:27:00Z</updated><published>2006-09-09T18:27:00Z</published></entry></feed>