My mental vacation started around 2:30PM, for those of you keeping score at home. That was the time that I looked at my watch, thinking “gee it’s almost time to go, better make sure I do…”, only to discover that I’m still 2.5 hours away from heading out the door. I now await what will surely be the longest 2.5 hours in all of recorded history. 🙂
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Not too much time to say anything. Just grabbing a quick bit to eat for lunch before launching back into the fray. Have already done this month’s billing, been on and off the phone countless times with our ISP trying to pin down the exact cause of SMTP connection failures, had a number of Symantec…
Tony’s got a link to an interesting freshmeat article about there being too much free software. Tony’s remarks, ” This has been a bigger impediment to the growth of Linux than many people would realize. I see it in email every day – “Which text editor should I use? There are so many.” Or, worse…
I couldn’t get to my own child abuse site at the airport the other day. I’m sure they use some sort of filtering software, and I’m sure that it’s the same filtering software used by various schools and libraries. So, while it not being available from the airport is only a minor inconvenience, a kid…
Hmm it seems that Robert has made a few more comments about my posts this morning. Let me counter his feelings bit-by-bit: “sorry, I don’t agree with you that talking generally about the Tablet helps NEC all that much. If you decide to buy a Tablet based upon my comments, but you end up with…
Ahh finally someone has come up with a service that will let you: “get an instant summary report on how likely it is that your marketing message or email newsletter will get stopped by the mail servers behind Sp@mAssassin and similar Bayesian-style filters.” I’m going to have to check out the ContentChecker and see if…
There’s nothing quite like the frantic, first thing in the morning call letting you know that “I turned it on and nothing happened!”. Of course the culprit, in this case, was a dead UPS battery, which is no surprise since some of these have been in use longer than I’ve been working here. (The hazards…