September 17th, 2004
According to this thread over at Half-Life 2 Fallout forums, Gabe Newell has posted saying that a release candidate of Half-Life 2 has been sent to Vivendi Universal, and is pending approval for release. This time around, it isn’t a hoax:
For readers doubt the authenticity of this post in light of the gold hoax, the IP does match up this time and many people have received e-mail confirmation from Doug Lombardi and Gabe Newell.
Via Forever Geek.
September 17th, 2004
It seems like I am not beyond a little self-promotion now and then. Well, the story goes like this. Paul Scrivens of Whitespace fame also runs Forever Geek, one of those blog/website types that posts news for geeks. Excellent stuff - I’d been reading it in my feed reader for, like, almost since I knew about it, which is around February when the site first appeared. (Of course, when I said “excellent”, you will soon realize I have a vested interested in saying so.)
Anyway, Forever Geek was looking for articles so I submitted the search article that was also posted here. That got into Slashdot. Recently, Paul posted that Forever Geek were looking for some new members to join the crew, so I applied - I find these things hard to resist, weirdly. And I got accepted. So now I am a contributing writer on Forever Geek, which I am unashamedly telling you to add to your reading list (Atom feed, RSS 2.0 feed).
This is not my first group blog (well, it is my second). The first was ensight.org from the before time (when most of the bloggers were SitePoint forum staff).
Anyway, read Forever Geek. Yeah.
September 16th, 2004
Update: Trä pointed to the relevant bug: Bug 86845 - Sort order for mail/news not configurable by default.
In reply to my offer of free Thunderbird technical support, I’ve gotten a few queries from people asking how to get rid of certain annoyances they have with Thunderbird (out of the box), or whether these peeves have been “fixed”. Some of these I did manage to resolve, the rest turned out to be also my own peeves with Thunderbird that I didn’t realize I had until I was asked.
One reader asked:
Is there any hidden pref, or any way to make EVERY imap folder sort by Date with newest at the top, instead of the default which is newest at the bottom?
Exactly the same problem I had (I have 7 IMAP email accounts in Thunderbird at work), exactly the same problem I had tried to solve a long while back (to no avail). I’ve checked Google, Bugzilla, and Thunderbird’s pref.js but these didn’t turn up anything useful. It can’t be true that no one else finds this a problem. If you know that this can be changed somewhere or has already been logged into Bugzilla, let me know by leaving a nice little comment.
Coincidentally, on the same day, a colleague asked me how to sort messages in a folder by thread and then by date. Which of course can be done by clicking on the “Thread” icon (click it again if the chronological order is not in the direction you want). But this also only applies to a single folder which is a pain in the ass if you have to do the same for each other folder.
September 15th, 2004
Same old story - too much to do, too little time.
To-do list:
- Find out why the virtual server hosting this site is crashing (this explains the intermittent downtime).
- Blog an average of 2 entries in 3 days for Forever Geek, where I am now a contributing writer.
- Study and pass SCJP exam.
- Learn how to play the guitar.
- Finish reading the Vampire: Dark Ages Clan Novel series (I’m currently at Brujah, book 8 of 13).
- Fix a client’s website. Make some backend changes.
- Get more involved in WordPress development. (Anyone know where to get WordPress from Subversion? Or is getting from CVS still current?)
- Blog more often here.
- Update my About page, and bring back the Archives page.
- Get to work on this Mozilla-related website I’ve been thinking of doing.
- Finish watching all this unwatched anime: Berserk, Last EXILE, Kenshin, Kiddy Grade, Hunter X Hunter.
September 15th, 2004
Asa Dotzler of mozilla.org tells us how he got a link exchange from Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s most popular blogger.
… Robert Scoble, agreed to add a Firefox button to his weblog if I would add a “I recommend installing XPSP2″ link to my blog.
Asa has already added the “I recommend installing XPSP2” link to his blog. I wonder what Robert’s CEO would have to say about this if he does add the Firefox button.
Well, whatever happens, I recommend installing Firefox, especially the freshly baked 1.0 Preview Release (grab the Windows installer or a Windows zip package - I assume other platform users will know what they are doing).
Half-Life 2 RC, could be out in a few weeks
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