I only recently learned that the PGP plugin for Apple Mail has a number of useful preferences that are set directly within the PGP application (instead of set within Mail). For example, you can configure PGP to automatically sign all outgoing messages. You can also configure PGP to auto-decrypt incoming encrypted messages. (You will still be prompted for your passphrase — so it's not completely automatic (and shouldn't be.) When receiving an encrypted message, PGP will attempt to retrieve the sender's public key from one of the public key servers. Nice.

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Recently I’ve moved from the NetNewsWire RSS news reader (on the MacOS X platform) to PulpFiction (PF) — a new application from Freshly Squeezed Software. Since PF doesn’t include a weblog editor, I’ve just purchased the stand–alone ecto application. It seems to have quite a number of interesting features, including the ability to pre-process and upload images. (It apparently can scale images before uploading, and can create thumbnails as well.)

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At the beginning of March, 2004, my wife and I were contacted by a real estate agent here in Spain, notifying us of a studio apartment that had just come on the market. They told us that the property would have excellent rental potential, and that the owner was motivated to make a quick sale as he urgently needed money to purchase a new home himself. We arranged to visit the apartment on the same afternoon, and signed a document stating that if we decided to purchase the property, the purchase would be made via the estate agent (i.e. we wouldn't try to go behind their back, and purchase the apartment directly from the owner.)

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LaunchBar 4 Beta has been released, and it's awesome. Here are some neat things you can do (and for all of these, the text [activate] means typing [command][space] to activate LaunchBar):

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Credit to Rands for this one: Eat a NutriGrain bar and... FEEL GREAT!!!

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I'm back home now from a two-week vacation, visiting family in the US. Had a great trip, and only wish it could have lasted longer than two weeks. I'm still recovering from jet-lag, and hope to get back to somewhat regularly weblogging soon. In the meantime, this post is a placeholderer so that certain friends won't tease me about having so little on my mind. ;-)

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Rule Numero Uno is, “Never Send An Email When Upset.” Doing so results in a high likelihood of putting one’s foot in one’s mouth – which is what I did this morning.

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I’ve got a cold. A bad one. I’m congested beyond belief. I’d say this one’s the worst ever. (At least the worst I can remember.)

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