Monthly Archives: March 2008

Follow up on the Lorain County Ohio CenturyTel DSL outage

Posted on March 31, 2008 by arcster

Although the outage was frustrating, I must give credit to Ken Phillips of CenturyTel, who actually found my blog posting and sent me an email!

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Lorain County CenturyTel back online!

Posted on March 23, 2008 by arcster

After a painful Good Friday and almost unendurable Holy Saturday, my DSL is back online. Talk about an Easter resurrection. Alleluia!

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Ohio Centurytel DSL customers have no internet ?!

Posted on March 21, 2008 by arcster

So I was up til 1:30 this morning trying to get connected to the internet. I’ve been a Centurytel DSL subscriber for about a year and a half, and it’s been reliable. Occasionally the ADSL modem quits, but I just … Continue reading →

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Serving .ics files from a webserver

Posted on March 20, 2008 by arcster

If you store static ical files with a .ics extension on a webserver and would like to give users the ability to click a link and add the events to their calendars, you may need to jump a couple hurdles. … Continue reading →

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ColdFusion/Outlook email discovery

Posted on March 14, 2008 by arcster

Generating an Outlook meeting invitation from ColdFusion is a challenge. There are snippets of code here and there, but I finally got a working solution. <cfmail to=”someone@someplace.com (Name here)” from=”someoneelse@someplace.com (Name)” subject=”Test appointment from ColdFusion” type=”multipart”> <cfmailparam name=”content-class” value=”urn:content-classes:calendarmessage”> <cfmailparam … Continue reading →

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The blizzard of ’08

Posted on March 14, 2008 by arcster

It started snowing Friday, March 7, in the early afternoon and didn’t stop until sometime Saturday night. These pictures were taken Sunday morning.

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I found a bug!

Posted on March 11, 2008 by arcster

I discovered a bug in Google Calendar. (In Firefox anyway; didn’t test on IE.) When you include a named day in an event, the day gets dropped and the event gets moved for the next week. So when I added … Continue reading →

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