TopFive

I heard from TopFive today, as part of a survey on what causes people not to renew their subscriptions. I said that it was funny and well worth the tiny cost, I had just been cutting back on a lot of kinds of e-mail at the time.

But you should check our their site, as I want to see them succeed and they really do produce some funny stuff. (As a subscriber, you get to contribute to certain lists, too!)

All abooooard!

Woo woo! I got my train ticket in the mail today, along with a birthday gift for my mom. I'll deliver it in person, if a few days late.

SpamAssassin is now running on TBLC's mail server (with or without webmail). I'm sure there will be messages waiting for me in the morning with joyous little spam tags all over them. So far, it's had about ten true negatives. Once I have examples of what the headers look like, I can teach people in the office how to use their favorite mail clients to sort spam into its own folder on teh intarweb.

[Teh] intarweb, a deliberate error for 'internet', goes back to at least October 2001, according to Google Groups. An apparently related misspelling, computar, also dates to September-October 2001 ("URA LOOSER AND IM GOING TO HAXOR YOU"RE COMPUTAR!!!!!11!!").

Got the bike fixed, picked up some DVDs from the library, bought a stack of 100 700MB/80min CD-Rs for $20 at CompUSA, bought salad stuff, came home, ate salad. It's still kinda light out. I think I'll stick the table in the back seat and take the bike for a ride.

Doy...

I must be dim. It took 6-12 months to figure out why my home machine couldn't talk to any of the machines at work. Just now I figured it out: I've got a NIC that's configured to consider that subnet 'home', so Windows kept trying to send data over that connectoid instead of saying "Ooo, no response, I'll try routing these packets over the net."