My squadra chip arrived today so I can’t thank Stephan at Squadra Tuning enough (and the postman)! Hopefully I’ll have it fitted tomorrow and will have an update on the performance improvements 😀
Better today
February 23, 2005 — osbluesI’m feeling much better today, woke up still feeling a little under the weather but definitely better. Talking of weather, we had snow over night and it was still showering with snow in the morning. I knew I had to drive to Leicester to pick up my business partner so was rather concerned about the state of the roads. I decided to just go for it only to find my ABS light came on straight away and rather worryingly stayed on for the entire journey. I’m not quite sure why the light came on, I can only assume it had detected a fault with the brakes (probably something frozen) and had come on to warn me of that, it cleared on a subsequent journey anyway. We headed straight back to Cov pretty soon after I arrived as we had no milk at his place 😦 We had our scheduled exit interview for our departing employee which went OK, it was more of a chat over a pint really which is probably how things like that should be.
Kitchen is now really coming along although today threw up a couple of surprises. Firstly I came home at one point today to find my father and the builders mopping up large amounts of water from the kitchen floor… they had managed to burst a radiator pipe an half flood the kitchen! Secondly my father called me later in the day to tell me he’d discovered a slight miscalculation in the units we had purchased for the new kitchen. Basically a 1000mm corner base unit isn’t actually 1000mm as it needs to situated 400mm from the wall! I therefore had to call in to the DIY store on the way home to purchase a replacement cabinet that we could swap out further along the run of units to reduce the space appropriately.
Work wise, today went pretty well as I managed to do some chargeable work this afternoon which is very rare for a Wednesday as these are normally our ‘management catch-up days’ which although necessary rarely produce chargeable work.
SPF compliant CDO message
February 22, 2005 — osbluesI wrote this a while back as I couldn’t find a nice example anywhere for sending SPF compliant CDO.message emails. It also copes with setting message importance which is another awkward thing. Let me know if you have any problems or have any suggestions to improve it.
Sub sendemail(strFrom, strTo, strSender, strBcc, _
strSubject, strBody, intType, intImportance)
Dim objMessage ' As CDO.Message
objMessage = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
With objMessage
.Fields("urn:schemas:httpmail:importance").Value = intImportance
.Fields("urn:schemas:httpmail:priority").Value = intImportance - 1
Select Case intImportance
Case 0
.Fields("urn:schemas:mailheader:X-Priority").Value = 5
Case 1
.Fields("urn:schemas:mailheader:X-Priority").Value = 3
Case 2
.Fields("urn:schemas:mailheader:X-Priority").Value = 1
Case Else
.Fields("urn:schemas:mailheader:X-Priority").Value = 0
End Select
.Fields("urn:schemas:mailheader:X-MSMail-Priority").Value = intImportance
If Not isNull(strSender) and strSender strFrom then
.Fields("urn:schemas:mailheader:return-path").Value = strSender
.Fields("urn:schemas:mailheader:reply-to").Value = strFrom
End If
.Fields.Update()
.To = strTo
If Not isNull(strSender) and strSender strFrom then
.Sender = strSender
End If
If Not isNull(strBcc) Then
.BCC = strBcc
End If
.From = strFrom
.Subject = strSubject
If CInt(intType) = 1 Then
.TextBody = strBody
Else
.HTMLBody = strBody
End If
.Send()
End With
objMessage = Nothing
End Sub
This is generally useful for web generated emails (like send a friend forms etc.), simply specify the users address as strFrom and a generic local address (noreply@mydomain.com) as strSender.
More generally, here are some good CDO examples.
Not feeling great
February 22, 2005 — osbluesYesterday late afternoon I started to feel extreme hunger pains which seemed very odd as I had well throughout the day. Pains continued after I’d eaten my evening meal (admittedly it was a kebab so I did kinda asked for it) so I went to bed really early. I didn’t sleep very well as the pains persisted but felt a bit better this morning when I got up. I’m still not feeling 100% now but feel better than I did this time last night.
The kitchen is coming along really nicely now and all the building work and majority of the plastering is now complete. The new units are going in tomorrow so it may resemble a kitchen again soon!
I finally ordered the chip for the coupé yesterday which has now been dispatched. I really do hope it arrives in time to have it fitted on Friday.
monday musings
February 21, 2005 — osbluesthe snow feel gently outside – as is apparantly the pattern for this time of year (m’good lady and the bloke I went caving with a few weeks back both tell me that it snowed this time last year).
inside, I’m confronting blogging for the first time… what will transpire? what revolution with unfold on monitors, LCD’s and TFT’s across cyber-space.
OSBlues 