http://www.mgriepentrog.com Michael Griepentrog's Personal Website Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:00:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The purpose of this article is to help both new and existing users get correctly setup with IMAP Gmail. I feel that the default settings in Mail.app and Google's recommended client settings (found here) are not adequate, and lead to a lot of headaches. What was usually the case is ... http://www.mgriepentrog.com/2008/09/27/no-frills-gmail-imap-with-os-x-leopard/ Ever since Nike+ was first released in 2006, I feel like they never got it completely right.  I was really irked when I found out that it only worked on the nano. I felt like they could have made it work on previous and subsequent updates of each iPod family, ... http://www.mgriepentrog.com/2008/09/21/love-hate-relationship-of-nike/ I just updated the blog to version 2.6 of Wordpress, and had a much better experience this time around upgrading versus last time.  I was smart enough to backup my site and database before upgrading in case anything went wrong. Expect a few other posts in the next few days.  I ... http://www.mgriepentrog.com/2008/07/15/updates/ So, while upgrading the site from Wordpress 2.3 to 2.5 I somehow managed to cause the upgrade to the database to fail (it was a combination of having the wrong settings in the config file and moving from having prefixes to not in the MySQL database), and completely hosed my ... http://www.mgriepentrog.com/2008/04/14/umm-oops/ The person in this comic is exactly how I am when I'm waiting for a package to arrive. Instead of clicking *refresh* every few seconds, what else can be done to give you a better idea of where your package is? That's where PackageTrackr comes in. This ... http://www.mgriepentrog.com/2008/03/07/finally-a-working-project/ Ok, well maybe the title isn't entirely accurate. I am a big fan of binary clocks and even own one. They are cheap from a circuitry standpoint. Say I have the time in BCD. BCD stands for Bindary-coded decimal, which uses 4 bits of binary for ... http://www.mgriepentrog.com/2008/03/06/binary-clocks-are-cheap/ To help motivate myself to keep running, I have signed up for the Crazylegs Classic which is an 8k run. This will be my first 8k, so I'm not quite sure what time I will run it in. My best 5k is 19:09 from high school, which is ... http://www.mgriepentrog.com/2008/02/27/crazylegs-classic-2008/ Today was the first day of me getting back into the routine of running. I have been running on and off this school year, but I'm not making a conscious effort to stick to running for various reasons. First, I need to stay healthy. It may seem ... http://www.mgriepentrog.com/2008/02/24/run-0432-pm/