Thanks to Tony at The Printing Press for hooking me up with these new kick ass business cards – We bartered some FreePBX know-how and he definitely over delivered – I strongly recommend him for anyone looking for print media in the GTA!
He shipped 1500 high quality gloss cards and I couldn’t be happier – once again, thanks Tony!
As most of you Cogeco subscribers know, Cogeco is implementing a new “Pay Per Gigabyte” plan for any cap overages – according to the DSLReport forums – this should be fully functional as of June 1st. So I have taken the initiative to give these crooks a run for their money and TAX their service like all hell. A few days back when I received my 100GB cap email, they said they would credit my account for any overages (for this month… how generous…) – I immediately fired up hellanzb and logged into Merlins Portal. This screenshot is just the tip of the iceberg:
Take that Cogeco!
Anyway, my download queue is almost empty – I encourage you all to take advantage of their generosity.
I just wanted to take a minute to thank you all for the support (especially #pbxinaflash). My Google cheque has finally arrived – after almost a year we have broken the thresh-hold and it is all thanks to YOU! Believe me – this cheque went to a very good cause (beer and groceries).
We visited our favourite sushi place last week to enjoy some amazingly fresh california rolls, squid, salmon and absolutely delicious tea. I noticed their cabinet full of really neat pots, cups and other really neat japanese food paraphernalia - I had to buy something. After our meal I asked if they sold their tea to customers, she seemed somewhat confused but soon returned with a 1KG bag of tea – she said $25, so I bought it.
I know, it isn’t straight from Japan – but this stuff is incredible (sorry for the sideways picture, I got lazy). Anyway, just thought I would share this with you.
Oh by the by, heres the set I bought a few weeks back for only $12 at Urban Barn :
I think Growl is a pretty awesome little notification app, I use it for absolutely everything and thought I would cook up a simple way for anyone to relay growl messages to their nodes – even from remote events.
What you need :
- A Local web server (with PHP of course)
- Remote machine must have curl (unless you are good with javascript)
Download the class.growl.php from google code and toss it in your web root. Create a new file called growler.php or growlnotify.php. Within it you can paste the following :
Set your webserver to listen on some obscure port and forward it through your router. You can now use curl to post messages from a remote location to all of the nodes you specified in the associative array above as such :
curl -d “message=some message `date`” http://your-web-server-ip:port/filename.php
This is a simplified explanation how I wrote Growl notifications for Asteristickies.
Have fun.
