Dave Kellam

I’m giving serverside spam filtering a shot right now instead of the Apple Mail junk filters (which do a relatively good job). We’ll see how it goes, it shouldnt be bouncing anything, but if it gets filtered poorly i might not see it for a couple of days. So far, it’s not doing a great job, it let three spams in right away. I’ll give it a chance though. Now to deal with the referer log spam that I’m getting.

I’ve said before, when I’m busy I post and when I’m not busy I don’t post. Well, that’s a lie. There are sometimes that you really are busy and internet surfing procrastination (to extensive weblog levels) is impossible. It should be scaling back a little bit this week, allowing more opportunities to peruse the interweb.

Uhh, news news news… nothing too exciting. Janet Jackson showed her tit on television to shift media attention away from her brother. Oh my god! Look that was a tit on television! OMG! Shock and awe. Something something blah cultural values blah blah children fuck blah whatever. The Europeans and millions of American’s with specialty cable channels are waiting for you in full bare-breasted splendor on this side of the curtain. Join with us and we shall ride over the edge of this cliff, hand-in-hand with the devil.

Other news items to check out this article on the underground community of virus writers. Like most of the computer intelligencia they fell mistunderstood. Also take a look at this ad (local) for Microsoft FrontPage with new professional coding tools that will help you produce clean code faster. Look for the part of the ad where the make an html mistake. Oh! Laugh riot.

n. Often adduced as the reason or motivation for
expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being
that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had
features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were
installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method
of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only
experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain
jazz: “Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.” (Feminists please
note Fats Waller’s explanation of rhythm: “Lady, if you got to ask,
you ain’t got it.”)

Here’s a table with how much caffeine various products contain (it’s American, but a lot of things are the same here)

Diet Coke 12 ounces – 46.5
Coca-Cola classic 12 ounces – 34.5

I guess that might be one of the reasons why I gravitate towards diet coke. That and coca-cola can just be too damn sugary sometimes.