http://www.bradgarland.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:56:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seems Godaddy implemented a new feature on their email hosting: "Auto-purge".  As the name suggests it will automatically delete emails.  Now that's fine for folder like Spam and Deleted Items but they put it on my Sent Items!  Goodbye 7 years of email history... As a loyal *paying* customer for 7 ... http://www.bradgarland.com/2009/11/12/godaddy-deleted-my-emails/ Ok, so I thought of developing a Facebook application using Rails and kind of assumed that there'd be some fantastic library that just did all the hard work leaving me to write the app. It seems there are a number of attempts to develop a ruby library for Facebook but finding ... http://www.bradgarland.com/2009/05/17/facebook-and-rails/ Took a few days but I finally got the Huwai e169 to work on Ubuntu 8.1.  Seems there's a bug with the Network Manager that means you can't save the settings which meant you couldn't log in.  But there is a way! From information you'll find elsewhere, you should already have ... http://www.bradgarland.com/2009/01/19/huwai-e169-gsm-modem-using-virgin-on-ubuntu-81/ I gave up my full-time job to run a company and I guess I had pretty high expectations of what we'd achieve - even though we actually created optimistic, realistic and pessimistic plans.  We're currently behind on even the pessimistic plan.  That is not to say that our product is ... http://www.bradgarland.com/2008/10/30/running-a-business-is-a-full-time-job/