Dear apple

Apple Receipt,
originally uploaded by odiosam.

Please stop sending me receipts for free downloads from the app store. They're clogging my inbox.

While you're at it, you might as well not require that I input my account password to download them as well. It's a hassle on the tiny keyboard, and pointless (somebody's going to steal my phone and rack up charges downloading free software?)

Using Gmail with Django

It's easy to set up django to send emails through Gmail. Just use the following settings:


DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'user@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'user@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_PORT = 25


Gmail supports other ports, which you can use as well. This is important if you're running thee server on your local machine, and your ISP blocks port 25.

testing out twitter feed.

I've been trying to integrate all my online "personalities" and I think I've finally got it.

Here's what I have:
- Startup twitter feed (divvyshot)
- Personal twitter feed (sodio)
- This blog
- The divvyshot blog (coming soon)
- Friendfeed
- Facebook
- Linked in

What I'm doing is using twitterfeed to repost my blog posts on their respective twitter feeds. Then I'm using FriendFeed to aggregate the two twitter feeds, along with LinkedIn. I think have installed the facebook FriendFeed plugin, which should aggregate all that data on my fb wall.

We'll see how it all goes...