For my mail, I use several catch-all accounts, so I can give every service it's own email address, which proves very useful in creating automatic rules. There is one issue though, you have only one sender account, and some services require that you respond from the original send-to address. To manage such 'virtual identities', Thunderbird allows you to write your own from address. Mail.app however, does not have such a setting. After several Google attempts, today I found *the* solution: the 'email address' field in Account properties, allows a comma separated list, allowing you to specify multiple addresses. Quite a genius way of solving the issue, if you happen to know this. Full credits go to Jonathan Tron who wrote the solution on his blog, together with some images. Thanks Jonathan!

I don't like pyramid schemes, but if both Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Ivo Jansch are participating, who am I to stop the trail? So here's my list of seven(ish) things you may or may not know about me (likely the latter), after receiving a tag from Ivo Jansch, who in turn got tagged by Matthew Weier O'Phinney, who got tagged by Keith Casey, who got tagged by Tony Bibbs, the root of all evil the one who started this all.

People have tried for almost a year to get me on twitter. Until now, I have always declined the invitations, and ignored the pleads. But now, things have changed. For a side project, I need to be very up to date with what goes on in the PHP world, and not be the last to know. Since it's quite obvious that you have to be on Twitter to know about things happening as they happen, I did the unevitable, and signed up for an account. It'll last for at least a month, and maybe, yes, maybe I might keep it after that, if it turned out to be really helpful, and I can't live without anymore. We'll see :). Either way, for the mean time: if you want to follow me, or see the rare update I give, follow me on Twitter!

It's a commonly known problem that if you import an ICS event into iCal, which is happening in another timezone, iCal will ignore the set timezone, and add the event in your own timezone. This means that a meeting in Israel time (GMT+2) at 14:00h, will happily show at 14:00h local time, even if you're not in, and maybe never been in, the GMT+2 timezone. You can't move the meeting to the real time, as iCal will happily notify you that you can't move the appointment, because you are not it's creator. By accident, I found a work-a-round that does allow you to change the time. Read on....

Only a mere 24h, and the world will know where the Americans want to go next. Like to know where the world wants the America to go? Cast your vote on iftheworldcouldvote.com and find out how the world, and your country, thinks about the future.

~RW

A couple of weeks ago, the PHP Enterprise Management Magazine Newsletter approached me with a request to do an interview with me for their section 'Developers World'. My first PHP related interview, and I'm actually quite fond of how it turned out. If you want to know a bit more about me, you can read the whole interview here. If any questions arise, please leave a comment. If you want an answer, but do not want your comment displayed, feel free to mention that, and the manual moderation will make sure your comment won't be published.

~RW

A search engine excels or fails with the results it returns. It's not the number of results that count, but the result the user was looking for. If a user can't find what the user is looking for, even though the user knows it's there (just not where), the search engine will get the blame. Even if the user used to most irrelevant keywords for the search, it's always the search engines fault. Google became famous with this. It found what you were looking for. You didn't need a degree in computer science, it just found what you were looking for.

For a specific reason, I needed two photo's taken, and I needed them on a very short notice. So, as usual, I call a guy who usually takes pictures for me if I need them, and set up an appointment to have them taken. Before the appointment was due, it was already very clear that he was going to bail on me, and later on, it proved to be true. So I had to find something else. Since I didn't knew anybody else with a decent camera, and I had the deadline within 24h, I decided I had to buy one myself. Which immediately raised the biggest question: which...

While checking if there was already a new IRL race on UseNet (only 2 more weeks till I have Sport1!), my mouse jumped, just before I made a click. This happens quite often on my Imac, and I know the solution is to buy a mousepad, but I just keep forgetting that. This jump made me click on one of the ads on the side, which happened to be for some webcam site, and of course I was taken straight to there. While being stunned about the amazing high payrate (80 eurocents per minute(!!!)), and wondering if there actually would be people desperate enough to call such a line, something remarkable caught my attention. Although the site clearly says "All models on this site are 18 years or older", the girls on this page were being advertised as being 17. To the best of my knowledge, that's illegal in the whole world, except for maybe some Scandinavian(sp?) countries. One of the 2 is a lie. Either they are advertising a wrong age (which is false marketing, you don't get (to see) what you pay for), or these girls are underage, and it could actually be a crime to watch them on their webcam...

See the (not recommended for work) image after the jump... (Click 'Read More')

~RW

On May 10, 2008, in a little place called Roosendaal (Netherlands), somewhere near the Belgium border, on an extremely sunny day for the time of the year, 10 developers gathered together with a similar goal in mind: improving PHP. Seated in a l low-lit room in a fancy hotel, they booted their laptops to reach their goal. One man had traveled all the way from Germany by train, just to instruct those 10 on how to accomplish their goal. Two people had traveled all the way from Belgium just to take part in accomplishing this goal. And I was there too... Read on...