Or, more appropriately, nobody post any comments for a little while. I just upgraded the “backend” of this Web log to version 3.0 of Movable Type and comments aren’t showing up any more. While they do actually get posted (I can see them from the administrative console) they don’t make their way to the actual …
In my last entry I talked about finding a good, free, online chess site and also my inability to locate a (for me) decent chess program. Since then, I’ve discovered an even better chess site, Red Hot Pawn, and, via that site, a chess program, Rival Chess, that suits all of my needs. There are …
Michelle and I are finally playing chess. Now that she’s got the basic rules down, she’s enjoying it. We found a really good online site, It’s Your Turn, and can send our moves back and forth while we’re at work. However, I’m still looking for a good Windows chess program so that I/we can play …
I started my trip to work this morning by taking the GO train from Burlington to Oakville. Once in Oakville, I got off so I could transfer to a train that would take me to Port Credit. (Had I stayed on, I would have found myself on a train that turned into an express to …
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Several weeks ago, Michelle and I paid a visit to Toronto’s Distillery District and treated ourselves to Mill Street Brewery’s new Cobblestone Stout – which is one of the smoothest stouts I’ve ever had. We wandered from one restaurant to another, having some Mill Street beers in various locations. (None of these restaurants had been …
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Over this past long weekend, Michelle and I spent a day in the main Chinatown. We went to a place for Dim Sum that we hadn’t been to before, which turned out to be a mistake. The last time we went to Toronto we visited the Chinatown in the West end on Gerrard, and spent …
Somehere in the area where I work lurks a building that makes cookies. I don’t know where it’s located, but I certainly do know that it exists. A few times a week, as I walk to or from work, I’ll be greeted by the scent of freshly baked cookies. Things get really interesting if I’m …
Unbelievably, I still get spam comments posted to my journal every once in a while. Some time ago I installed an extension to Movable Type that blacklisted certain sites and keywords. I got a spam comment after that. After having gone through the pain of trying to blacklist sites, senders, and Subject: lines in regular …
I recently implemented a server side anti-virus solution using ClamAV. This is a freeware utility, mostly with Linux and Unix variants, but there is also a pre-packaged Windows build. It has no problem running on server. So now, in addition to using avast! Home on my Windows workstation, I’ve also got postfix scanning every incoming …
Here’s a little Linux command line I came up with that keeps one directory having the same number of files in it as another directory – by deleting all of the oldest files until the file count is the same: ls /etc/assp/spam -t | tail +$((`ls /etc/assp/notspam | wc -l | sed -e ‘s/^ *//’`+1)) …