tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50899252011-04-21T16:44:21.276-07:00Daily StaticTechnology, Dynamic Programming and EntrepreneurshipBeowulfnoreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1130574891170849022005-10-29T01:33:00.000-07:002005-10-29T12:16:45.753-07:00The myth of the stored procedureI just came across an interesting thread on the Ruby on Rails blog here. I'm not going to touch the arrogance issue because that's too subjective. What I will address are two things:1 - the need for stored procedure support2 - the need for xml configurationAs the reader will have no doubt surmised, I don't believe in stored procedures, however that wasn't always Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1129687671348384442005-10-18T18:48:00.000-07:002005-10-18T19:07:51.356-07:00The joy of windows :/So I took today off from work as an extra day to spend some time with my wife and recouperate from my trip to the startup schoool. Of course, I'm typing this message from work. So much for that extra day off.We do E-discovery here at work, and we use a collection of tools that imo are worst of breed. We use windows as a file server to house 100's of millions of image and Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1129615344135561622005-10-17T22:49:00.000-07:002005-10-17T23:48:23.743-07:00Startup SchoolI just got back from Paul Grahams excellent Startup School. What an incredible experience! If you are a would-be entrepreneur, I would highly encourage you to attend next year. The depth and quality of the speakers was as impressive as any conference I've ever been to. I won't bother to rehash the content, if you are interested, check out this tag on del.icio.us: Startup School.Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1129182229680909932005-10-12T22:40:00.000-07:002005-10-12T22:43:49.680-07:00File Server updateRemember that whacked out file server I mentioned in april? It turns out that my random file checker script magically fixes some problem with the server. When the script isn't running we start getting these wierd "file not found" messages. For some reason, everytime we fire up the script the message miraculously stop coming. If we stop the script the errors will start Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1129181980118132472005-10-12T22:33:00.000-07:002005-10-12T22:39:40.123-07:00Rooming with strangersI'm headed to the Startup School this weekend. In order to save on cost I've decided to split the cost of the room with three complete strangers. Financially it works out that it's a good deal. It turns out that all three of them are from my state, and they live in my area. I was a bit suprised that anyone else from my state would be attending. Funny how things turn Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1121814841025354942005-07-19T16:09:00.000-07:002005-07-19T16:14:01.030-07:00Dell 2405 fpwWell I finally broke down and bought a dell 2405 fpw. I found a 35% off coupon on slickdeals.net, and at $779.00 I just couldn't turn it down. I've been Jonesing hard for a widescreen LCD, now it's finally on the way. Now, as I told my wife, I will finally be complete. Or not. :)Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1121275962928617162005-07-13T10:26:00.000-07:002005-07-13T10:47:25.673-07:00You can't break just some of the rules.I found out some weird stuff today at work. I've always been told that you have to have good selectivity for an index to be useful, particularly if it's a non-clustered index. So you wouldn't imagine that an index on a bit field would particularly improve performance. Yet today I saw a query that went from two plus minutes go to a one second query by Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1120000083580601042005-06-28T16:06:00.000-07:002005-06-28T16:08:03.580-07:00Skillful StudentI am getting ready to roll out a Rails site with one of they guys that I used to work with.You can check out the beta version of the site at: http://skillfulstudent.com.It's been a pretty fun process building this site in rails, and it definitely makes me look forward to building other sites.Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1119995129714536492005-06-28T14:34:00.000-07:002005-07-13T10:26:29.146-07:00Python Unicode WoesOk, so I love using Python at work. It's a much more fun and open language than C# or even worse Visual Basic (shivers). The one thing that causes pain though is working with international strings. The most frustrating aspect is strings that use characters in the 128-255 range. Basic strings in Python are 7 bit, 0 - 127. If it encounters a string above 128, it pukes and Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1114721466648082392005-04-28T13:36:00.000-07:002005-04-28T13:51:26.466-07:00Whacked out file serverSo we have a file server that serves images and files for our web site at my work. It houses upward of fifty million images, and recently we have started to have serious problems with the machine. All of the sudden the box becomes unresponsive to network requests for 20 to 50 seconds. Initially we thought it was the virus scanner, but we've gone so far as to completely Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1114056271576331312005-04-20T20:55:00.000-07:002005-04-20T21:04:31.580-07:00Be careful what you wish forWell I've been wishing for harder problems to work on. Generally I don't come across too many problems at work that require a lot of brain bending effort to solve. Today one of the junior developers (juneys) was working on a problem that he's spent almost two days on. He talked to me a few times during the day about the problem, but he didn't seem to be making much Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1113979906083874952005-04-19T23:47:00.000-07:002005-04-19T23:56:40.040-07:00Nested sets in rails 0.12.1Nested sets are one of my very favorite structures. It is a structure that allows you to deal with arbitrarily deeply nested hierarchies. I saw with release 0.12 of rails that there was a new :acts_as_nested_set keyword in the model layer. I have spent the last two nights trying to get this code to work, and so far I haven't had any luck. Even if the code works as Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1111679438087445372005-03-24T06:52:00.000-08:002005-03-24T07:50:38.090-08:00Well, I figured I'd start posting to this blog again. I had a different blog at http://mbawulf.blogspot.com, while I was considering business school. At this point, I've ruled out attending business school, at least for the short term.Dave Massey one of the IE developers posted this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmassy/archive/2005/03/22/400689.aspxIt is primarily a response to the Mozilla Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074898710720217082004-01-23T14:58:00.000-08:002004-01-23T15:00:32.610-08:00Phenomenal SQL Library
One of the guys at work sent me a link to a library with 123
TSQL Functions. There are some incredibly useful functions into
this library. Some of the function categories are base conversion,
combinatorial, algebra, numeric, string, date, comparision
validation, logical, trigonometic, hyperbolic.
You can find the library hereBeowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074893418943280642004-01-23T13:30:00.000-08:002004-03-13T13:59:33.793-08:00Elegant Code
There are days when you write code that just feels ugly and hard
to read. Those times when you know that there must be a
cleaner, easier way to do this, but you can't for the life of
you think of it. It feels as if you were lobotomized against
your will and without your knowledge.
Then there are those days when it clicks, and you do think of
that cleaner easier way. When that Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074706930942188322004-01-21T09:42:00.000-08:002005-06-28T16:04:11.240-07:00Lisp Web ServerA few weeks ago I ran across this page.It's an interesting study about building web applications usinglisp. This is something I've had a very serious interest insince I have been reading Paul Grahams web site. They look tohave built a relatively serious dynamic web site using Lisp.They used Portable Allegro Serve and several other open sourceLisp technologies. They also Beowulfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074535514889081462004-01-19T10:05:00.000-08:002004-01-19T10:11:00.246-08:00The End of Ender's Game
I finally finished the Ender's Game quartet last night. It was
an excellent series, it was filled with interesting characters
and interesting ethical dilemas. The last book came across as
much more talky than the previous three, although he warns you
about that in the prologue to Speaker for the Dead.
If you've never read Ender's Game, I highly recommend it. It's
one Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074297561693265872004-01-16T15:59:00.000-08:002004-01-16T16:01:14.420-08:00Logical Fallacies
This is a good reference for those of you that like to
debate discuss world events.
Fallacies
It's really amazing how many people will resort to ad hominem
attacks during a discussion, many times without even realizing
they are doing it.
The other night when I was listening to Michael Savage, he was
ripping on Hillary Clinton for a speech she was giving. He kept
playing a Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074289868942046002004-01-16T13:51:00.000-08:002004-01-16T13:58:03.280-08:00Censorship in the Sims
There is an interesting article on Independent.co.uk. You can
read the story here.
Being a long time player of many online games, Asheron's Call 1
and 2, Dark Age of Camelot, Showbane and Final Fantasy XI, I am
very interested in the economic systems of these games. Like
the researcher mentioned in the article above, I am keenly interested
the relationship of the Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074222993003351902004-01-15T18:49:00.000-08:002004-01-15T19:18:42.420-08:00Old code update
Ok, so I manage to wade through my code today and get it working. It
took a while for me to slog through it, I'm sure part of the reason it
was so difficult today was that I'm not feeling well. I finally got
the code working though, surprisingly it worked a little better and
easier than I thought it would.
I have to say I'm really impressed with Python's utility. It really
isBeowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074190486313818122004-01-15T10:14:00.000-08:002004-01-15T10:16:38.000-08:00Comments in old code
I have been working with a relatively complicated script that I
wrote in October 2003. I wrote this script right before I left
for the ILC 2003. I knew someone else was going to have to run
and be able to work with this script, so I commented it pretty
heavily. Now looking at the script again, I'm finding it hard
to decipher what I was doing, even though the code was
Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074113048009784752004-01-14T12:44:00.000-08:002004-01-14T12:45:58.110-08:00Lisp Editing Mode
For those of you that don't know, I use emacs to write the posts
for this blog. I have it set to text mode with auto-fill so the
posts are kept to an aesthetically pleasing width. One problem
I've noticed with this mode is when I type in a url. It does
the autofill based on the length of text, yet when a url is
displayed online, only the portion between the tags is displayedBeowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074112240434622322004-01-14T12:30:00.000-08:002004-01-14T12:41:53.700-08:00Spidering Hacks
I bought a new book yesterday. It's entitled "Spidering Hacks",
it's published by O'Reilly. Since I have a relatively strong
interest in text classification, I thought using spidering to
extract information from the web would be a natural next step.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I wanted to write a slashdot
engine that included some of the more advanced featres I've beenBeowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074106624282900322004-01-14T10:57:00.000-08:002004-01-14T12:41:20.750-08:00Lisp Machines
Lambda the Ultimate has a link to this Lisp Machine page.
This is a great reference site. It is basically a
catalog of all known information on the web relating to Lisp
Machines.
I think Lisp machines are a fascinating topic. They are
probably the most legendary machine I've ever heard of. When I
was at the ILC, Gerry Sussman talked about their Lisp Machine at
MIT. Even withBeowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074106173498649812004-01-14T10:49:00.000-08:002004-01-14T12:35:35.186-08:00Squishdot
I stumbled on a zope based slashdot engine called Squishdot last
night. For the last year or two, I've wanted to re-write
slashdot and add in some more advanced features that I've been
toying with. I haven't wanted to wade into the morass of Perl
code though. I have a basic understanding of Perl, but to
rewrite it, I would have to pick up a lot of extra knowledge (of
course I've Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074106014379716802004-01-14T10:46:00.000-08:002004-01-14T12:34:53.390-08:00Make Your Mac a Monster Machine
There is an interesting article on asktog.com about improving
the productivity of you OS X workstation. He makes some
interesting points about why the dock isn't that great, and how
shows a tool that is far better. He has another article that
specifically covers why he doesn't like the dock, but apparently
that page is slashdotted at the moment.
AskTog is an Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074063926460771912004-01-13T22:56:00.000-08:002004-01-14T12:34:08.890-08:00Marketing is success
I've been thinking a lot about the power of marketing lately. I
see languages like Lisp that is far more advanced than any other
language out there, it's taken decades and the other languages
haven't caught up, yet they are phenomenally successful despite
their technological inferiority.
Compare Windows to Unix/Linux. Technologically windows is still
a joke, it's been Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-1074057989826520222004-01-13T21:20:00.000-08:002004-01-14T12:33:22.466-08:00Blog back up
Woohoo, I'm back in business!!
Previously I had my blog running on a Windows 2000 server, but I
took it down when it started getting hammered with Viruses.
I've been really lazy and didn't put up a new server, I thought
I'd just switch over though and have my blog posted on BlogSpot.
A lot of things have happened since I last posted to my blog, I
won't bother trying to cover them Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-931011892003-04-23T01:42:00.000-07:002003-04-23T01:42:37.003-07:00Visual Studio Update
Ok, I spent some time reveiwing what was happening in Visual Studio,
and I've revised my opinion. I don't think it has anything to do
with licensing, or if it does it's only a tertiary issue. It appears
that our problems were related to a buggy build order in Visual
Studio .Net. In order to make CVS use easy for all of us, we have
standardized on output directories for Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-927269502003-04-16T10:41:00.000-07:002003-04-16T10:41:20.856-07:00Visual Studio Licensing
We enountered an interesting problem at work today. We added a
third-party component for secure ftp to one of our projects.
Immediately after adding this component, I was no longer able to
compile the solution. I kept getting the error "unable to copy
the file to the output directory", the dll was apparently
locked. After some serious searching, and attempting to Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-926301572003-04-14T21:39:00.000-07:002003-04-14T21:41:50.000-07:00Blog Rewrite
I've been toying with the idea of writing my own blogging tool. I
prefer the idea of fried to baked (ie dynamically generated versus
pre-generated) at least in the short term. If traffic were ever to
become a problem and my server couldn't keep up with the page
requests (unlikely), I could always switch to a baked model.
I'm leaning towards writing it using Apache / mod_python / Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-924481562003-04-11T13:16:00.000-07:002003-04-11T13:18:35.000-07:00First Slashdot submission accepted
I got my first story submission accepted by Slashdot today. For
those of you who are not regular Slashdot readers, it's pretty
difficult to get a story submission accepted on their site as
they receive hundreds of submissions per day.
You can see the story submission here:
The Hundred-Year Language
I have been monitoring Paul Graham's site pretty closely Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-924040712003-04-10T20:33:00.000-07:002003-04-10T20:33:18.623-07:00Test Driven Development
I've known about Test driven development for quite some time now, and
I've even tinkered around with it some, but I've never built anything
of significance using it. Until yesterday that is. I finally
decided to give it a try building a full class using test driven
development. I decided what the component needed to do, figured out
the basic functionality it needed to Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-922932732003-04-09T07:56:00.000-07:002003-04-09T07:56:43.153-07:00The fall of the Saddam Statue
I watched the live stream of the fall of the Saddam Hussein statue in
baghdad today. I listened to Bob Lonsberry on AM 570 as he
narrated the event. It was a very interesting spectacle as the
Iraqi people crowded around the fallen Saddam statue, kicking
and stomping on it in a symbolic gesture of defiance to the
fallen tyrant.
April 9th, 2003 - the Liberation of Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-921615312003-04-07T10:41:00.000-07:002003-04-07T10:41:33.200-07:00Using Emacs
I've been playing with Emacs for a little over a month now.
What ultimately led me to it was Paul Graham's site. I am
really becoming fascinated with Lisp as a programming language,
as a result I decided to try out Emacs because of it's embedded
Lisp interpreter.
When I was introduced to Unix, I was indoctrinated by my
Professor about why VI was better, and there was never a
Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-911472392003-03-21T13:51:00.000-08:002003-03-21T13:51:44.966-08:00Windows File System Woes
At work I have to deal with large numbers of large text files.
When I mean large numbers I'm talking anywhere from 5,000 to
20,000+ files in a given batch. This is related mostly to the
large amounts of data I have to deal with. Unfortunately
Microsoft's code that deals with large amounts of files is
horribly inefficient.
Simply deleting 6,000 files took well over Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-904115232003-03-09T11:15:00.000-08:002003-03-09T11:37:55.000-08:00Intellectual Progress over the last week
Several days ago, I finished my reading of the book 'Prey' by Michael
Crichton. It was an extemely entertaining and enjoyable read. The
book has a very enjoyable story and as always Crichton backed it up
with a solid technical discussion.
'Prey' revolves around the combination of three important
technologies. These three technologies are Artificial Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-903308062003-03-07T16:44:00.000-08:002003-03-07T16:47:51.000-08:00CVS Wierdness
Well, maybe one day I'll remember my own lesson about not typing
anything important into a browser. Of course I lost this post the
first time I typed it.
I encountered a strange problem today. I was updating my local copy
of a Visual Basic 6 project, one of my developers had made a change to
the program, so I wanted to get the most recent version. I noticed
however that my fileBeowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-900768972003-03-03T15:38:00.000-08:002003-03-03T15:50:58.000-08:00MS Access!?!?!?!?!
My predecessor at this job did everything in Access. He has tons of processes "coded" in access, and everyone of them requires clicking multiple dialog boxes and looking at the data after each one of them to ensure that everything went ok. Although the processes are fairly hands on, it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't written in Access. They did so many screwy things in Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-899597612003-03-01T09:34:00.000-08:002003-03-01T09:35:56.000-08:00Cleaning Bug
Every once in a while I get completely overwhelmed with clutter. My home office has been essentially
non-functional for the past month or two. It's been so bad, I moved my laptop down to the living
room and worked from there. Today I finally decided to take matters into my own hands and re-org this
room. I removed an extraneous table that crowded the room, cleared off all the Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-899211802003-02-28T13:08:00.000-08:002003-02-28T13:10:31.000-08:00Hammered SQL Server
I was preparing an update for the QC department today when I realized that some of the data wouldn't
fit in one of the fields. After talking it over with the lead developer, we decided it would be best to change
this field from varchar(255) to text. This particular Table has just over 900,000 rows in it. I started
the switch about 4 hours ago, and it's still running. In Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-898558012003-02-27T11:59:00.000-08:002003-02-27T12:01:41.000-08:00CVS NT
I've been resisting using Visual Source Safe as my code repository, knowing how much better
CVS is. Today I finally got CVSNT installed. I also set up ViewCVS to work on top of it,
and I got TortoiseCVS set up as my client.
It's funny, because when I'd tell people how much better CVS was than Source Safe, the
immediate response was "Pony up the dough". Then I'd tell them it was free,Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-897825992003-02-26T09:24:00.000-08:002003-02-26T10:20:07.000-08:00Dotnet Regular Expressions
There is a really nice feature included with the dotnet Regular Expression engine that allows
named group captures. While it doesn't change the way the engine works, it adds a nice touch
to the capture process.
Say you had a string with the following format:
NWCRTN3497497349834_022502_93212.txt
This is an actual file I receive on a daily basis. Every day the file Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-897287382003-02-25T11:56:00.000-08:002003-02-25T11:56:20.763-08:00Utah in the Top 10 for highest state Taxes
I don't find this too suprising. State taxes seem to be pretty high here, and a large
portion of those taxes go to the school system. There is a price to be paid for
having large families. It's unfortunate that the populace as a whole has to bear that
cost rather than passing it on to the people who are having all the kids.
You can find the article Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-897240682003-02-25T10:22:00.000-08:002003-02-25T10:31:19.000-08:00The Patent Office - daily dose of stupidity
Slasdot is running this article. Interwoven has been granted
a patent covering version control systems. It covers things like versioning,
history, comparison, merging and more. How long have they had this system?
CVS has been around for at least a decade now. Why can a company wait
until some techonology becomes prevalent and then claim their Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-897199812003-02-25T09:03:00.000-08:002003-02-25T09:59:37.000-08:00Saddam to Bush: Let's debate
Saddam challenged President Bush to a debate today.
At first I was interested to see this, thinking perhaps it would shed some light
on the Iraqi leaders postion, then I started thinking about it.
Traditionally leaders like Saddam (Hitler, Mussoline, Stalin, etc.) have been very
charismatic. They are typically well spoken and know how to manipulate a crowd
or a Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-897196032003-02-25T08:56:00.000-08:002003-02-25T08:56:35.170-08:00Snow!!
We got some much needed snow today. Although the majority of the
storm appears to be heading through central Utah, we got a few inches
in the northern end.
For those of you who don't know, this has been the warmest year on
record for us. We have also received less snow this year than any
previous year in our recorded history. This has been particularly
bad because we've had several Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-896951812003-02-24T21:54:00.000-08:002003-02-25T10:06:52.000-08:00Lisp Debugging error
I was walking through the Emacs Lisp tutorial today, trying to write
the insert-buffer function. I must have spent two hours trying to
figure out why my function wouldn't work. I kept comparing it to the
example provided, and the two looked identical to me. I even opened
up the insert-buffer function that is loaded into emacs and compared
it, still they looked indentical Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-896218052003-02-23T16:02:00.000-08:002003-02-25T09:57:31.000-08:00Prefix Notation
I've been going through the Lisp tutorial provided with Emacs. It's
interesting how different prefix notation seems at first from the
algebraic notation more common with modern languages. To write the
expression 2 + 3 in lisp, you would write it as (+ 2 3). At first
this syntax seems clumsy and unfamiliar. However it quickly becomes
easy to read. One side effect that I've Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-895694302003-02-22T14:48:00.000-08:002003-02-25T10:01:28.000-08:00Car Accident
I just realized when I was looking at the date on the site that today
is the anniversary of my car accident. Seven years ago today, I was
in very serious auto accident. I was hit head on by two oncoming
suburbans. I was in a mid-size Mitsubishi Gallant. They hit me doing
about 55 miles per hour, I was doing about 40. That accident was
something that profoundly changed my life.
Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-895686352003-02-22T14:28:00.000-08:002003-02-22T14:28:08.000-08:00Junk Mail
I'm getting so tired of Junk Mail. I get somewhere in the
neighborhood of 100-150 pieces of junk per day. If I don't read my
mail for a day or two I come back to find a mountainous pile. I
recently installed the Matator by Mail
Frontier. While their product has made the spam more manageable, it
still lets through a very large amount of spam and has a fairly high
false positive rateBeowulfnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089925.post-895664562003-02-22T13:29:00.000-08:002003-02-22T14:29:38.000-08:00Welcome to my blog
Well that was fun, my first blog post got sent into the aethernet.
The interface to blogger is a little confusing. Right above the text
area, there is a "posts" button. I hit that button instead of the post
button on the right hand side of the screen.
Oh well, it wasn't that ground shattering of a post, it did however
re-inforce a valuable lesson. Never actually type Beowulfnoreply@blogger.com0