It started out as a discussion of the spam that was hitting the gentoo-dev list, and I was told about bogofilter, a Bayesian spam filter that use word count stats and analysis to filter spam. Up until now I’ve been using spam assassin and it’s been working pretty well. I just purged my spam folder […]
A man, some spam, a plan…. Iran Read Post »
A big shout out to my dad, whose birthday was yesterday. Happy birthday dad, lots of love from your son. Been slowly making the house livable. Tonight it was a fit to get the last two laundry loads of shirts onto hangers, deal with the nine thousand ties I have (ask me the last time
Sometime around 1996 or 1997, after I had moved out of home I had the opportunity to get high speed internet access through telus (the bctel). After the original install speedbumps (ie: them not actually installing the hardware to get internet access), there was maybe one problem every two years, even after I moved to
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Well, we’re in, amazingly enough. The DNS records should update soon enough that people will be able to hit this page again (all three of you). I don’t know how long I’ll stay here (on this IP that is) as with being forced off the “old” telus network I’m stuck with a bandwidth cap, and
Radio from the cable? Read Post »
Wh00p! got the new place’s lease all signed and stuff, so we can now officially move in. I think Firefly will be doing some stuff tonight, and some things will move up tomorrow (including cable, phone and internet), and the rest goes up on Saturday. Everything is shocking white and relatively clean…. and man is
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My Resolutions for September 11, 2002 I will not turn on the television all day, unless it is to watch something specific and amusing. I will refuse to participate in watching the endless looping of the horrible images that have been gracing our television screens for the past days. I will never forget what I
Today started early with the Community Futures networking breakfast. The theory with this is you get a bunch of small business owners, or people interested in starting their own business, and put them in a room togeather (this time it was breakfast at Smitty’s (hint: don’t expect much from Smitty’s food wise)) and let them
Ever come into a conversation halfway through, and just not want to know? Thefollowing was heard being said from one front desk girl to another as I exitedthe gym this morning: “… that’s a lot of licking…” Some things you really don’t want to know, ya know? In other news, I got an email back
Busy couple of days. I’ve been working my ass off on some funky mod_perl stuff, and loving it. Got a bunch of stuff over to my folks for their garage sale on saturday, old computer games, random toys that have been gathering dust, etc. Of course, we came back with a few things as well,
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An email actually sent to the Tetley Tea via their feedback form [archive.org link]. To: The Tetley Teabag Folks [archive.org link]From: AlanSubject: Needing your urgent attentionTo whom it may concen…While I am not a tetley tea drinker, I do have idea for a new product that you could sell. I am requiring a duvet from
Things you think of in the middle of the night and what happens. Read Post »