Archive - Jul 2003
The basic spam filtering is in place. Now to wait for some email and see whether it has had enough training. Next step is the IMAP agent to read from the SPAM folder and keep the training up-to-date.
I'm planning on getting back to researching my customized Spam Filter tonight. But before I do that, I need to catch an hour or two's zzzz's. I woke up a bit on the early side today. Must remember to also do some work on my resume's job descriptions.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
-- Saki (1870 - 1916), "The Square Egg", 1924
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
Never fight an inanimate object.
-- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
As soon as she walked through my door I knew her type: she was an argument waiting to happen. I wondered if the argument was required... or merely optional? Guess I'd know the parameters soon enough.
"I'm Star At Data," she offered.
She made it sound like a pass. But was the pass by name? Or by position?
"I think someone's trying to execute me. Some caller."
"Okay, I'll see what I can find out. Meanwhile, we're gonna have to limit the scope of your accessibility."
"I'd prefer not to be bound like that," she replied.
"I see you know my methods," I shot back.
I've converted my personal SMTP server at work from exim to postfix. It would have been straight forward, if it hadn't been for those pesky kids! ... I mean ~/.forward file.
My emails were being accepted by the server okay, but weren't being delivered to my mailbox. I eventually realised that I had an old .forward file sitting in my home directory. Removed it and away she went. Exim hadn't been configured to use .forward, postfix was. The file refered to procmail which wasn't setup on that machine, hence the error.
He nodded to the troll which was employed by the Drum as a splatter [footnote: Like a bouncer, but trolls use more force].
-- Nobby takes Carrot for a drink in The Mended Drum
Lady Ramkin's bosom rose and fell like an empire.
Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
"Right, you bastards, you're... you're geography"
"This is Lord Mountjoy Quickfang Winterforth IV, the hottest dragon in the city. It could burn your head clean off."
-- Captain Vimes addresses a band of rioters
"'E's fighting in there!" he stuttered, grabbing the captain's arm.
In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...
-- John Simon
I hate quotations.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
-- Bob Dylan (1941 - ), "Subterranean Homesick Blues", 1967
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
-- Sir Robert Hutchison
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker (1925 - )
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
-- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
-- Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
Liberated from [LJ:slybelski]'s journal.
You're original. Instead of goin' wit' the flow youset the trend and wear whatever you like. Youroriginality pulls people towards you but alsopushes some away. Don't worry. In the endyou'll end up with plenty of friends.
