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...]Building a perfect D20 (2003/05/27)
I have a favorite toy. Well, I have tons of them, but my recent love is GeoMags.
[read more...]WinAce, Annabel Lee, and hypocrisy. (2003/05/27)
This entry is sort of an expansion on this thread over at ChristianForums, but also a bit of thinking about some other issues that came up one day. The thread it was based on was lost in the Great Crash of 2003; sorry.
[read more...]Thoughts on being an honorary Catholic. (2003/05/26)
When I first started hanging out at ChristianForums, I made a few friends fairly early on. One day, they informed me that they’d declared me an honorary Catholic.
[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...]Junk fax lawsuits (2003/05/25)
This StarTribune story is the first coverage I’ve seen on my own personal contribution to trying to get rid of junk faxes.
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