The true sign of football season

The first football player gets arrested before the semester even starts. They're starting early this year.

Kansas State senior tight end Rashaad Norwood was arrested early Sunday morning in Manhattan on multiple charges stemming from a domestic incident, including battery and criminal damage to property.

According to a Riley County police report, Norwood, 22, was arrested at 3:15 a.m. Sunday near his apartment. In addition to battery and criminal damage to property, Norwood also was charged with criminal trespass and obstructing the legal process.

Bail was set at $3,000 for the criminal trespass charge and $2,000 for the battery charge.

Norwood, a product of Kansas City Schlagle, started 10 games last season for the 7-6 Wildcats. He finished second on the team with 36 catches for 358 yards.

Not quite a "drop the chalupa" moment, but not bad for preseason.

Beating the 'noname' attachment bug

Having been bitten by this particular bug several times recently, I offer to you a fix; a must-have if you're using Gmail, and you should be.

There is a bug in Google Mail that sometimes gives you "noname" attachments, bizarrely encoded (it's called "appledouble"), when sent from a Mac. Google have been made aware of the problem in March 2007 and are... hum... "working on it". Here you can upload those files and retrieve them decoded.

And if anyone's worried about this gent's data-retention policy, I've got a local version set up too, but I'm just as untrustworthy as he is. (My advantage: I couldn't retain data if I wanted to.)

Das fledermaus: eins

I've determined that I'm going to count the bats we get in the building this semester.

This would be number one.