For the first time in a very long time, I found myself today in a mall greeting-card store (two, really — Carlton Cards and Hallmark). Usually Candice and I go to Paper-Papier, a paper store in the Byward Market, which has all sorts of interesting plain and craft-type greeting cards, most blank inside. I quickly […]

Antispam-type people, I want your opinions on RBLs. I’ve given up on Bayesian filtering companywide, and content-only filtering just doesn’t cut it anymore, but I want to avoid putting RBL blocking or tagging in place that I’m going to regret. Basically I’m after low false positives and negatives, with an emphasis on low false positives […]

On the recommendation of Gordon Rowell at work, I swung by Refurb Computers today to pick up a little mini-desktop box to use as a mp3-playing stereo component. I left with the Gateway E1400 pictured to the right (click to enlarge), 3.5″ tall by 11.5″ wide by 14″ deep. It’s a pretty good deal: 633 […]

What would you do if you wanted a telegraph installed in your home? Call Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph, of course.

Microsoft’s Slate webmag encourages you to abandon IE for Firefox.

I really haven’t had the energy to post lots about personal stuff lately, but I’m trying to get back into the swing of things, and I put off too long an important one from a week ago, when and I celebrated our first anniversary! We’d given each other presents earlier in the week because we […]

He’s cute, but the bed is still not made. (Be sure to look at the next two pictures in the album as well. The third one is my favorite.)

I just submitted this to RISKS. It’s neato and it makes me happy so you get to read it here first: I figure a bit of good news on RISKS can’t hurt: Recently while trying to automate downloads of my account balances I managed to trip the “too many failed logins” feature on the website […]