A MySpace Bulletin: “Just Suck It Up and Fix It”

by philrw
315 words - 2 min read
Rants and Raves
I thought I would save this from electronic oblivion. It’s a bulletin I wrote for my friends. You know what, folks, I’m just gonna say it. Honesty hurts sometimes but y’all need to hear it. I think you all are great, but some of you just need to fix your damn profile pages. I can’t read any of them. The designs are horrible. White text on a white background? Gimme a friggin’ break! Now I’m not saying you have to go to design school, but just step back for a minute and look at your pages objectively.
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MySpace spam: no way to know now

by philrw
196 words - 1 min read
Tech
I just got three MySpace spams in the course of three minutes. What fun. I would so much prefer MySpace to actually forward/redirect their messages to my e-mail address. Then I could filter it for spam myself based on the content/sender. But as it stands now, MySpace only sends you a notification of new messages and you have to log in to their blasted website to read the message. So my options are limited: 1) deal with the dumb notifications or 2) turn off notifications entirely, which I prefer not to do.
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Hooray for recipient delimiters (geek alert)

by philrw
256 words - 2 min read
Tech
I’ve spent the last day integrating the amavisnewsql plugin with Squirrelmail and figuring out how to use my custom and separate alias maps and virtual alias maps in postfix. The workaround came by putting the alias map hash in the virtual_alias_maps list. This treated all of my local alases like virtual aliases and caused Postfix to rewrite them so that the amavis-new SQL lookup would match my custom SpamAssassin level settings to me and not ignore the email that was previously addressed to my alias and, amavis thought, to someone else.
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Restrain My Heart

by philrw
133 words - 1 min read
Poetry
Restrain my heart from leaping forth towards every light it sees my solitary soul yearns what my heart would deign appease but soon it jumps too eagerly at every flitting chance or even passing prospect of a tentative romance restrain my heart for in its joys a thousand sorrows lie in stirring of its passion best a hundred hopes do fly restrain my heart for in the end it matters not upon if loves light fight is won or lost as scarring wounds sting on restrain my heart my shouts and pleas but fall upon deaf ears
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Rico’s Pizzeria

by philrw
84 words - 1 min read
Rants and Raves

I just thought some of y’all might want to know about one of the best pizza joints in the Denver Metro area, Rico’s Pizzeria.

I don’t work for them nor have they compensated me for these words, except with their great food; I figured it was time I shared this little secret with the rest of the world. I’m addicted to their pepperoni subs. Next time you’re in Englewood, stop by. I always eat take-out but go ahead and dine in if there’s room.

Urinetown extends its run

by philrw
68 words - 1 min read
Film/TV/Theater

You won’t hear the official announcement until Friday, but we’re adding 5 shows:

Friday, 12/8 @ 8pm,
Saturday, 12/9 @ 8pm,
Friday, 12/15 @ 8pm,
Saturday, 12/16 @ 8pm,
Sunday, 12/17 at 2pm.

You can also get 2-for-1 tickets to any of the Sunday shows BEFORE the extension (Sundays 11/19, 11/26 and 12/3 only) by calling the phone number on the show’s website and saying, “Phil sent you.”