Day: November 22, 2004

Can you believe those Tivo folks? The nerve! I mean sheesh!

But what can you do? Dump your Tivo!

Here’s what you will do: You will disconnect your Tivo, you will contact me for my shipping address, and you will then ship that stupid Tivo to me.

What will I do? I will take all of the Tivo’s and make sure that those Tivo folks never get any more money from Tivo subscriptions (you can trust me, I’m cheap and will not pay for it.) I will also sacrifice (some of) the Tivo’s by destroying them, probably by running them over with my car, or dragging them behind the car, or by smashing them with a hammer, or stating them on fire. I will attempt to take photos of this, or video (once I get a new digital camera to replace the broken one, or a new video camera battery and video-to-computer device.)

Listen Tivo owners, I’m on your side, who else can say that!?

Huh? The Gmail API? That’s right… While the release of POP access to Gmail left many people yawning, or complaining, or just looking puzzled and muttering “IMAP” to anyone who would listen, I dug into Mail::POP3Client.

Mail::POP3Client is a perl module that can talk to a POP3 server. (Yes, it can use SSL so it works just fine with Gmail.) You do have to turn on POP access in Gmail, and check the Configuring other mail clients page for the proper settings. I think I had a simple perl script talking to the Gmail servers in about 10 minutes. (It would have been less, but I had to install Net::SSLeay as well.)

So while Gmail’s old web interface is nice and all, it’s really made for humans, while this POP access is made for machines. Go! Go! Machines!!!

If you can only see one movie in the theater this year, make it The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. I say this because I only have seen one movie in the theater this year, but I also say this because it was just plain awesome.

I laughed, I cried, I laughed so hard I cried! The fact that I slept just a few hours on the weekend might have helped, but the sheer awesome-ness of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie cannot be denied! At least not by me or my gradeschool-aged daughter. This is one we definitely need to get on DVD…