UOIT MyCampus Email in Thunderbird or Outlook

IT doesn't allow Auto Forwarding for MyCampus email. Consequently, I never check my MyCampus email. However, I recently found out from Zander that you can access MyCampus email using IMAP. So now I'm using Thunderbird! Here are the settings for your favourite Email Client:

Protocol: IMAP
Server: itsosims02.mycampus.ca
Port: 143 (standard one), and no SSL (no authentication)
Username: Your Student ID i.e. 100123456
Password: Your MyCampus password or your original MyCampus password if you changed it i.e. Your Birthdate MMDDYY

Thanks again to Zander and happy emailing.

Note: It appears that you can't send email when not on campus but you can receive email anywhere.

Download The BQE by Sufjan Stevens from WNYC

Sufjan Stevens and a small orchestra were guests on WNYC's Spinning on Air radio show. They played excerpts from Sufjan's upcoming orchestral piece The BQE. It will premier at the BAM Festival on November 1st. You can listen to the show on Spinning on Air's website using their cumbersome flash player if you want. Fortunately, using some handy View Source-ing skills I found an actual MP3 download link for the show.

WNYC New York Public Radio
Spinning on Air
Episode: Sunday, October 28, 2007
Audio Type: MP3
Bit rate: 56kbps
Length: 60 minutes

Download Link:
http://audio.wnyc.org/spinning/spinning102807.mp3

End of the Internets...LOL

Congratulations, you've reached the End of the Internet.

Petition Blogger.com: Recycle BlogSpot Addresses!

Basically, I think BlogSpot.com addresses should be recycled after two years with no updates or sign-ins. Blogger.com's policy on abandoned blogs is this:

"Blogger accounts and Blog*Spot addresses do not expire. Therefore, we can't take away somebody's blog address to give to you. Occasionally people come back to their blogs after long absences, and we want them to be able to find their blog as they left it. If you find some contact information on the blog, you are welcome to deal with the owner directly, to see if they are willing to delete the blog so you can use the address. However, we do not give out contact information for the owner of a blog."

Two years is a very long time. Chances are if they haven't updated by then they have abandoned their blog. Another problem is some people don't give out their contact information on their profile. Consequently, you can't email the blog owner to ask for their BlogSpot.com address.

We, the bloggers of Blogger.com/Blogspot.com, need to rally together and petition Blogger.com to change this ridiculous policy. Please, help me petition Blogger.com by going to the feature request page. It will only take a minute, I swear! Just sign in with your Blogger/Google account. Click "Suggest a feature" and Submit. On the next page, scroll down to the bottom and copy-paste the following in the "suggest a new feature:" text box:

I read the policy on abandoned blogs. I am petitioning that blogs over two years old with no updates be deleted and the BlogSpot address recycled. Two years is more than enough time to login. Clearly, after that amount time the blog is truly abandoned.

Or if you feel so inclined, you can write you own 45 word petition.

Thanks a lot,
Chris

Download Vista DreamScene Videos in HD via BitTorrent!

Download HD DreamScene video for FREE! at VistaDreamScene.googlepages.com

I've just finished updating the site. I think I'm content with the changes. (lol)

However, I kinda wish I had been able to keep the Dream Scene videos as HTTP downloads. It's just a bit more convenient, I guess. Oh well. I couldn't find enough bandwidth. Instead, I made a torrent and from now on I will be distributing the DreamScene movies using BitTorrent. (If you still want to download the DreamScene movies using HTTP, you can try the HTTP page. I'm pretty sure I ran out of bandwidth for the month so the videos probablly won't download using HTTP. You're best bet is to use BitTorrent.)

On a more positive note, my HD DreamScene videos have been downloaded more than 2500 times! MY VIDEOS! Really. I went through 50Gb of bandwidth! Thanks to Openomy for providing a great service.

Let me know if there are any problems downloading the videos using BitTorrent. I've updated the help page to for new BitTorrent users.

So if you missed the link to download HD DreamScene movies it's: VistaDreamScene.googlepages.com

Chris' Original Twitter Badge -- Code Included

[Update: Twitter has created new and better badges! You can still use this badge if you want.]

Well, I've been getting some hits for 'twitter badge' so I'm gonna give you guys what you want.

Frankly, the badges that Twitter.com supply are pitiful. The Javascript one is plain and just a one-liner. The Flash ones are... well Flash. Who wants to load that? Besides they're ugly.

So as I said before, I made my own original Twitter badge (pictured in the top right of this post). I just used the Twitter logo. I also made the color scheme match Twitter.com's color scheme so everything is nice and pretty.

After, I looked at my badge and thought "It's not cool enough yet." So then I added the actual twitter background. The end result was my new Twitter badge (picture to the bottom right of the post or you can find it in the sidebar).

Anyways, I know you want the code for my original twitter badge so here you go:

But before I give you the code, I ask only one thing; you MUST leave the comment in where it says that I made the Twitter Badge. Therefore, I'll get the credit. Thanks.

Finally, here is the code for my twitter badge:

<!--HEADER-->
<div style="background: #9AE4E8 url(http://assets4.twitter.com/images/bg.gif) no-repeat bottom left; padding:5px 5px 3px 5px; text-align:center;">
<a href="http://twitter.com/chrisjf" title="ChrisJF's Twitter"><img border="0" width="210" alt="Twitter Logo" src="http://assets4.twitter.com/images/twitter.gif" height="49"/></a>
</div>

<!-- This Twitter Badge was made by ChrisJF . http://chrisjf.blogspot.com You may use or modify this badge for your own purposes but you MUST leave this comment in to properly credit me. -->

<!--CONTENT-->
<div style="border: 1px solid #9AE4E8; border-top:0px; padding:5px;">


<!--NOTE: This section of code is just the generic Twitter HTML Badge. You can copy and paste it here. (Make sure you click the "No title" option.) The section below shows an example of the Twitter HTML code. You need to delete it and put in your own Twitter HTML that includes your username.-->
<div id="twitter_div"><ul
id="twitter_update_list"></ul>
<a id="twitter-link" style="display:block;text-align:right;"
href="http://twitter.com/chrisjf">follow me on
Twitter</a>
</div>
<script src="http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script text="text/javascript"
src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.json?callback=twitterCallback2&count=5"></script>

</div>

NOTE: You're going to have to change a few links at the beginning of the code so that they link to your page (i.e. twitter.com/username and title="YourName's Twitter").