Outlook 2011 on Mac OS X, v14.1.3, for whatever reason, still does not properly support “format=flowed” content-type or “quoted-printable” extensions for plaintext emails. This causes plaintext emails to be sent as mangled messes, full of arbitrarily inserted linebreaks. This appears to be a regression from Entourage, as far as I recall, which never handled plaintext [...]
Archive of entries posted by yiming
Dragon Age 2: modding the Edge of Night axe into a longsword
Having a bit of fun with Dragon Age 2 in my spare time. The selection of longswords in Dragon Age 2 leaves much to be desired. Call me old-fashioned, but when I play fantasy RPGs, my warriors are always sword-and-shield (munchkin min-maxing be damned), because…that’s how heroic fantasy warriors are supposed to be. As TvTropes [...]
A wishlist for a native Mac email client
As the tech-savvy sort, I often do some things that the typical consumer might not care about. However, it is strange that I simply cannot find a native Mac email client on the market that fulfills what I consider to be very basic features for decent email management. While everyone is gushing over the latest [...]
A Brief Guide to Golems of Amgarrak with a New Character
So I’ve been playing Dragon Age: Origins in the few spare hours I get every week. Having never finished Baldur’s Gate 2, this is redemption for my neglected gamer soul, I think. In general, it’s pretty easy. However, several of the most annoying battles so far has to be from the Golems of Amgarrak DLC. [...]
musings on self and search
So as you may be aware, I developed SelfSolved in order to avoid cluttering up this blog with “I fixed this!” posts. I’m trying to get into a habit of writing at a higher conceptual level, instead of this repository being just yet another technical problems blog. It turns out that without writing about random [...]
fixing a scrambled IPython command history on stock OS X 10.6
So I started over with a fresh install of OS X 10.6 recently, and wanted to restore my Python development environment. In doing so, IPython is absolutely essential if you want a sane interpreter environment to test out code. I had a bit of trouble with it though. The Problem The stock Python 2.6 shipped [...]
Subversion 1.6.2 runtime error on network access on OS X 10.5
A new SelfSolved solution is up for perusal. The problem I tried to solve: After compiling Subversion 1.6.2 from source on OS X 10.5 Leopard, the compilation is apparently successful, but svn dies when it tries to connect to the network for the first time. Crash log reports that symbols are missing from libneon.dylib. Crash [...]
finding a fault-tolerant HTML parser for iPhone SDK
A new SelfSolved problem is ready for perusal: A couple of my iPhone projects require a decent HTML/XHTML parser. On OS X, Cocoa ships with NSXMLDocument, which includes dirty HTML parsing functionality from libtidy. Unfortunately, NSXMLDocument is not part of the actual iPhone 2.2 SDK (though it is part of the 2.2 Simulator — so [...]
Musings on the state of popular science fiction
Received an email from a good friend on the “new and improved” Star Trek: I gave this some thought, and perhaps one could say that blowing up Vulcan is a symbolic “fuck you” to the core values of Trek, to wit: “Logic, reason, humanism–fuck these things! Do what feels right regardless of the consequences. Or [...]
