SpamAssassin: Better than nothing, anyway. (2003/05/30)
So, I get a fairly large amount of spam. I mean, nowhere near the thousands upon thousands some people get… but maybe a few hundred a day. Yesterday, 257 that were identified as such. Some days, maybe twice that. I’ve already gotten one spam since I started writing this piece.
[read more...]No geek stuff. Well, okay, a little geek stuff. (2003/05/29)
My friend Dave has been working on a new Mandelbrot generator, the eventual goal of which is a continuous-zoom generator which “zooms in” the way you expect things to, rather than refreshing all at once. This is insanely ambitious, but it’s been very interesting watching the development.
[read more...]Best search terms so far. (2003/05/28)
For those who missed it, this blog was briefly named “The Brain of Seebs”. And it was indexed by several search engines under that name.
[read more...]Hey, Scooter! (2003/05/26)
So, I’ve looked through the logs to see who visits this site, and I’ve found something interesting.
[read more...]New Cranky User pieces online! (2003/05/26)
Some readers may be aware that I have a regular column over at IBM developerWorks. What you may not know is that IBM’s exceptionally author-friendly policies mean I’m allowed to maintain local copies of articles, once they’ve been up for a month! So, for instance, I now have the first TWENTY SEVEN columns up. That’s right! TWENTY SEVEN of them. #28 is formatted, but they have exclusive rights for another week or so. #29 has been edited, and should be showing up around June 1st on the IBM site.
[read more...]There is hope. (2003/05/25)
So, when we were coming home from lunch, the car that pulled off the freeway in front of us was emitting smoke from the tailpipe, and stalled, and put on his hazard lights. So, we stopped to help out - lent him a cell phone, helped push his car over.
[read more...]Name My Blog! (2003/05/24)
I’m no good at names (just ask any of the players in my D&D games). So, I don’t know what to call my blog… So you guys can name it for me. Post comments. If I like a name proposal, I’ll change the site’s name to that.
[read more...]Poor kitty! (2003/05/24)
A friend of mine got a new kitten.
[read more...]Traditionally, one always starts a blog... (2003/05/22)
Traditionally, one always starts a blog by pointing to another blog. (If this isn’t a tradition already, it should be.)
[read more...]Just what the world needs, another blog. (2003/05/22)
Well, I’m a writer these days, so I do a lot of typing, and a lot of muttering under my breath, and I thought this would be a great way to combine them!
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