While looking through links for my previous post, I found this one – which caught my eye in particular because it has my old postal address (also weird – Google maps used to show the house, but now I can’t see it, even though the neighbours are there, and so is the lake. Has the imagery [...]
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4 Apr
Massey University: out of touch with the real world
A policy on passwords like the one that Massey University has is worse than no policy at all. Of course, when I was there, they forced students to have a four-digit number as their password, despite the fact that doing so violated their own policy, so I guess it’s expected that this will be ignored. Particularly bad [...]
2 Mar
Quoting and flormat=flowed
A few days back, Hawk Wings had an interesting post about Why Mail.app quotes the way it does. The post linked to the "format=flowed FAQ", which is a great piece that explains how format=flowed quoting works, and why it is a good idea. I’ll update my page about good quoting practice (and the corresponding post) [...]
3 Jan
Tools
(Moved over from my Massey site.
Future entries will be separate, but in the Tools category).
These are the tools that I regularly use, and which I would obviously recommend:
13 Dec
After Hours Sign-in Books
A recent Massey Albany announcement:
As part of our Health & Safety requirement it has been necessary to provide after hour sign in books in all multi-storey buildings on campus.These have now been put in place and can be found either by the after hour entry doors or in the case of the Quad A and [...]
13 Dec
Stability of email addresses
Massey’s ITS department have been at it again (see also the comments about their security blunder earlier this year – somewhat patched up now).
Ever since email began, it has been customary for an email address to take the form username@domain – for example, I have a username “ta-meyer” with which I log into Ihug, and [...]
13 Dec
Email Quoting
Like many people, I deal with a lot of email every day. Something that makes it much easier to deal with is when people quote properly. Here are some guidelines (originally prepared for 139.177 / 119.177) for effective email quoting.
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