<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from blog.glen-martin.com</title><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2010 blog.glen-martin.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:03:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from blog.glen-martin.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Ironic spam</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/we_have_stopped_sending_you_mails.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/we_have_stopped_sending_you_mails.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=we%5Fhave%5Fstopped%5Fsending%5Fyou%5Fmails</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is an email still spam when it says they stopped (past tense) sending you e-mails?]]></description><category>spam</category></item><item><title>Lemonade for teachers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/lemonade_for_teachers.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/lemonade_for_teachers.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 13:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lemonade%5Ffor%5Fteachers</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Remember lemonade stands? We used to have them to make a little spending money. Now kids have them to give the money away.]]></description><category>school funding</category><category>fundraising</category><category>pta</category><category>lemonade stand</category><category>bake sales</category></item><item><title>Thunderbird with IMAP hangs during new message scan</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/thunderbird_imap_annoyance.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/thunderbird_imap_annoyance.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thunderbird%5Fimap%5Fannoyance</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Email composition in Thunderbird hangs on checking for new messages. Still.]]></description><category>email</category><category>thunderbird</category><category>imap</category></item><item><title>Flush with alacrity</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/flush_with_alacrity.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/flush_with_alacrity.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=flush%5Fwith%5Falacrity</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Can a Japanese industrial powerhouse offer anything to wilderness vacation zealots like me?]]></description><category>neorest</category><category>outhouse</category><category>camping</category></item><item><title>Eyestrain and desktop colours</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/eyestrain_and_desktop_colours.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/eyestrain_and_desktop_colours.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=eyestrain%5Fand%5Fdesktop%5Fcolours</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ever try to get a consistent white-on-black colour scheme across your desktop and all applications?]]></description><category>palette</category><category>color scheme</category><category>styles</category><category>firefox</category><category>thunderbird</category><category>linux</category></item><item><title>My pet&apos;s name is too short</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/challenge_questions.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/challenge_questions.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=challenge%5Fquestions</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Please let me put off explaining password strength to my kids for another few years. Maybe once they're walking.]]></description><category>password strength</category><category>challenge questions</category></item><item><title>After Upgrading, or why I still use Gentoo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/after_upgrading_or_why_i_still_use_gentoo.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/after_upgrading_or_why_i_still_use_gentoo.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=after%5Fupgrading%5For%5Fwhy%5Fi%5Fstill%5Fuse%5Fgentoo</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![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.]]></description><category>gentoo</category><category>dependencies</category></item><item><title>Irony-R-Us: distraction</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/ironyrus_distraction.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/ironyrus_distraction.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ironyrus%5Fdistraction</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title>Overbite in web pages</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/overbite_in_web_pages.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/overbite_in_web_pages.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=overbite%5Fin%5Fweb%5Fpages</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Remember when 'engineer' was a verb?]]></description></item><item><title>Double Barrel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/double_barrel.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/double_barrel.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=double%5Fbarrel</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My "Double Barrel Palin Ail" (puns intended) won best name at Brew-Ha-Ha 15 last weekend.]]></description><category>homebrew</category><category>palin</category></item><item><title>switcher-backer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/switcherbacker.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/switcherbacker.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=switcherbacker</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![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. 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Life is good.]]></description><category>itunes</category><category>samba</category><category>nfs client</category></item><item><title>iTunes store and country restrictions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_country_restrictions.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/itunes_country_restrictions.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=itunes%5Fcountry%5Frestrictions</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![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.]]></description><category>itunes</category><category>apple</category><category>country licensing</category><category>region encoded</category></item><item><title>Yahoo footer turns a meal (well, email) into spam</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/yahoo_footer_spam.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/yahoo_footer_spam.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=yahoo%5Ffooter%5Fspam</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![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.]]></description><category>spam</category><category>yahoo</category><category>optout</category></item><item><title>Nash strategy and public health</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/nash_productivity.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/nash_productivity.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nash%5Fproductivity</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nash equilibrium is rarely the best possible outcome. 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And sometimes it makes sense.]]></description><category>options backdating</category><category>stock options</category><category>speculation</category></item><item><title>Who me? Bitter?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/who_me_bitter.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/who_me_bitter.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=who%5Fme%5Fbitter</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another open-source homebrew, another t-shirt.]]></description><category>homebrew</category><category>hop head</category></item><item><title>A9 and Google</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/innovators_a9.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/innovators_a9.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=innovators%5Fa9</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Innovators dilemma alive and well in sponsored links.]]></description><category>search</category><category>innovators dilemma</category><category>google</category><category>a9</category></item><item><title>Minimalist OK Go videos</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/okgo.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/okgo.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=okgo</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Things found by roadside, sure, but really funny. I'm laughing my proverbial ass off]]></description><category>ok go</category></item><item><title>Data theft is criminal - loss should be as well</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/criminal_data_loss.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/criminal_data_loss.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=criminal%5Fdata%5Floss</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![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.]]></description><category>data loss</category><category>identity theft</category><category>government</category></item><item><title>Bogus Patents: it ain&apos;t just software</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/drug_patents.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/drug_patents.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=drug%5Fpatents</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many have said that patents on software are reprehensible, immoral and probably fattening. 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Accident, or deliberate?]]></description><category>cardmember agreement</category><category>online payments</category></item><item><title>Can childhood survive multiculturalism?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://blog.glen-martin.com/protecting_childhood.htm</guid><link>http://blog.glen-martin.com/protecting_childhood.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://blog.glen-martin.com/console/comments/popup/?f=protecting%5Fchildhood</comments><dc:creator>glen martin</dc:creator><description><![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?]]></description><category>childhood</category><category>multiculturalism</category><category>protecting kids</category><category>santa claus</category></item></channel></rss>