Archive for May, 2007

A little like Christmas

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Phone with slide-actionThis Friday, we’re picking up our new cell phones. I can hardly wait! (more…)

Just a matter of time

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Our living room windows look out on an intersection of four narrow streets. One-way streets come in from north and west, and one-way streets leave towards east and south. West has right-of-way, and often cars blaze through at or above the legal 50 km/h limit with no chance of stopping, should “North” neglect the right-of-way. It’s a ticking time bomb. (more…)

How I set up my spam filtering

Monday, May 7th, 2007

It’s true that the initial configuration of SpamAssassin is not for the faint of heart: Unix SSH, procmail, crontab, and so on. If you do it right, it rocks. But make one mistake, even a typo, and you may be deleting all incoming mail rather than just filtering it. (more…)

Yay for SpamAssassin!

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Do you get spam? A lot? Hate it? Delete every single one manually? Think the built-in spam filter sucks? Me too. But I won, and here is the story. (more…)