I’m dedicating this journal entry to my wife, who keeps getting upset when I tell her I have no money – and I keep getting frustrated not only because I feel as if she’s blaming me for holding out on her, but because if I did have it I wouldn’t think twice about giving it …
I’ve just implemented ASSP (which stands for Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) on my Linux server. This replaces the custom spam rules I’d rolled using postfix host / sender / recipient checks, and procmail, along with SpamAssassin. All of that is now mostly ripped out, with ASSP in its place. I’d originally become so fed up with …
We recently bought a really nice wrought-iron wine rack, which will hold 24 bottles. This was done because we’ve put in an order for 60 bottles from one of those “brew it yourself” stores. Although, they actually brew it for you – you just bottle it yourself. The quality isn’t as good as what you’d …
This month is half over and I haven’t posted anything yet. Once again, time slips aways from me at this job. I just don’t seem to have the opportunity / initiative to come up with something to say while I’m busy with other things. Still – I wanted to have a “March” buttton. Ideally, I …
I’ll confess that I was rather stunned to discover the existence of both of these items: Personal submarines. You always think of submarines as belonging to the navy or to oceanic research outfits. I never would have thought that individuals would own one, designed as their own personal pleasure vehicle. But, in hindsight, why not? …
I’ve been using a freeware utility on my computer for a while now called Glass2K that lets you set the transparency on any window – from 0% to 100%, and also to set a window to be “always on top”. It’s come in useful from time to time, and it was the only (free) one …
It’s funny. I created my personal Web page, and then this blog, knowing that people might come to it and read all about me. I haven’t put anything on the site that I don’t want people to be able to get to – nor have I said anything about myself that I want to remain …
Finally I’ve read some news on what caused the North American blackout last August. According to this news article, it was a glitch in the software running on a GE Energy XA/21 server in Ohio (and, yes, it all did originate in Ohio – and wasn’t the result of some mystical lightning strike just “North …
Recently I reported that Kodak was no longer manufacturing 35mm cameras. Now, Philips has announced that they will no longer be manufacturing VCRs because the demand is no longer there. That’s great if all you want to do is watch movies – but there is still no reliable way of recording shows on TV that …
Okay, it’s been a couple of days now and I’m just starting to get used to the new name of the Mozilla Foundation’s flagship stand-alone browser. I’ve always used the Mozilla suite, even despite the fact that I only install the browser component. Originally it was Phoenix, then it was renamed to Firebird. Just a …