As I posted some time ago, I would really like Gmail to have an automatic BBC option, so that a copy of each eMail I write will be sent as BCC to an eMail-address I specify. All the attempts to tweak Gmail via a Greasemonkey script failed, so I would like Google to implement this feature directly into the interface.

If you would like this, too, then please consider signing my online petition:
www.petitiononline.com/gmailbcc/petition.html

You would do me a great favour by spreading the word about this petition.

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I just purchased the German version of Knockout 2 which works as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Corel PHOTO-PAINT and Corel Painter as well as Corel Paint Shop Pro X.

So, what does it do?
It makes masking nice and easy!

Quote from the website:

(…) it lets you retain the finest image details, including hair, smoke, liquid, fire, glass and shadows. (end of quote)

And that, it does very well!

I have tried several times to separate a certain object from the background, but with the built-in functions of Paint Shop Pro, it just didn’t work without a lot of effort. With Knockout 2, it is easy as can be!

The only problem was that Paint Shop Pro X failed to import the mask after I was done with Knockout 2: it said “Plugin passed bad parameters”, and there was no mask imported.

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Suzan and I are now officially leaving Hannover to see R.E.M. live tonight in Berlin (Waldbühne)!

Tomorrow, we’re heading towards Dresden where we stay until Saturday.

We might even stop by in Leipzig on our way back.

I just tried to update XAMPP for Windows to version 1.6.7, using the installer version.

Somehow, it did not work without removing the old version first: Apache changed status to “Running”, then suddenly stopped again. There was no way I could access the admin panel. Same happened with MySQL.

After removing the old version, Apache started (as did MySQL), but clicking on “Admin…” resulted in a “500 Internal Server Error”.

Here is the (pretty simple) solution:
An old .htaccess still remained in “…/XAMPP/htdocs/xampp/” which delivered the error. Deleting it did the trick.

And here is a reminder for me:
Permalinks don’t work by default in XAMPP because ModRewrite is not loaded… open “…/XAMPP/apache/conf/httpd.conf” and remove the “#” before LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so… stupid!

Right from the beginning, I spelled this nice blogging software I use “Wordpress” with a small “p”. The more I searched the internet for blogging-related stuff, I came across the correct spelling “WordPress” with a capital “P”. That was already a long time ago. But as I had also already written a few posts that I didn’t want to change (which I wouldn’t have known how to do at that point, anyway - even if I had wanted to), I continued spelling it in the wrong way - at least, I am pretty persistent when it comes to continuity.

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