Chris

Ha!  Timothy Dalton was in Flash Gordon!  And also Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, he was Dr. Zarkov.  Hee.

And... so apparently, there was a Flash Gordon TV series in 2007, and the guy who played Flash in the 1980 movie played Krebb in one of the episodes.  Ha.

[eta] Waaaaa, Fico, who played the pipes in a bit scene, is played by Richard O'Brien, better known as Riff Raff from Rocky Horror.

In other news, I usually go for VLC Player, but it's been playing the videos jerky on this laptop, so I installed GOM Player, which was infinitely and immediately better.  Huh.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth.  Number of comments so far:

The checkbook thing now validates the form input on installation and logging in, and session handling is slightly better.  Also, the display is a bit more streamlined.

Next is to go through and add validation in the checkbook part, the bills/budget part, and the settings part.  I'm considering setting it to where JS must be able to run in order for it to go, just so I can get away with client-side-only validation, buuut that might be rude.  And I can suffer the writing so as to make it nicer for others.

Way later is to figure out how to get the budget to display nicely.  Also, pagination.

What's most annoying is, I know I am not the best at creating websites from scratch.  I'm much better taking something that exists and morphing it into something that I want.  That's usually how I even learn about new ways to do things.

But everything I'm finding in SourceForge is either ridiculously over-featured or way too simple in a direction I'm not going (so they only have basic features that I don't care about), and a whole lot of them haven't been touched in like 5 years, and are broken.

You'd think I'd find this wonderful, given what I said, yknow, one paragraph ago.  But I don't know the etiquette of taking something that someone abandoned years ago and making it mine, and perhaps shareable to others, and it irritates me that no one has thought to make something like this, that works, recently.

"Mine" in the same sense that the ljuntagged script is "mine" -- I'm the contact and maintainer of the script, but the source of it was someone else, and I make note of that when it comes up.

RoundCube, which is a free "browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface", is very pretty.  Bonus, it works with Gmail, which means one can get around Gmail's conversation threading, which means one can, say, subscribe to LJ notifications again.

Nifty.

Man, I dunno, maybe it wouldn't be hard to make my own checkbook thing, given how many completely crappy open source ones there are out there.  I'd have to edit the hell out of them anyhow, sooo.

I take it back!

OggSync for OL 2003/2007 is better.  It has full two-way synchronisation between OL and GCal.

I'm running it through some tests.  So far, two downsides: 1) I can't afford Pro, so it only goes out three days; 2) it's a rent-a-software, not a buy-a-software, which is very annoying.

Also, dear you guys - it's not upgrade to pro from a trial, it's either upgrade from freeware, or buy pro.  Heavens.

GreenPrint: "GreenPrint eliminates wasteful pages in any printout automatically, saving you time and money, and maybe more importantly, saving trees, reducing greenhouse gasses, and decreasing waste.

GreenPrint's patent-pending technology does this by analyzing each page of every document sent to the printer and looking for typical waste characteristics (like that last page with just a URL, banner ad, logo, or legal jargon)."

See a demo.  It wants to use sound, but you can get the same thing out of it by clicking the slider bar and scrolling along to see how it works.  Apparently, it also tracks how much money you've saved by using this product.  It says that the average user saves $90 per year, which more than makes up for the $35 cost of the product.

I don't plan to use it, but only because I am positively fanatic about not using more paper when less would do, when I print at all.  (CutePDF, a freeware product that allows you to print to .pdf, helps with this.)

While I am writhing in pain, I ask for your input:

What do you need/want/like on your Windows box?

(I'm looking to flesh out my new-computer del.icio.us tag.  And getting all service packs and updates is an assumed step.)