It’s interesting how technology changes our routines and what we do day to day.
Last night, during the Red Sox game, I recorded NBC’s American Dreams on my Mac G4 Desktop via EyeTV. It dumped the show into a 700mb mpeg file – which I then transferred over to my laptop.
Now I’m sitting in seat 24F of a United Flight to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport watching American Dreams while we cruise along – I’m also blogging and doing some other work while the show goes on.
What a way to travel!
Here’s some ridiculous statistics about spam coming into my two home email addresses – I’ve had them since 1994 – this represents email received since January 1st of this year. 168,365 spam messages – absolutely ridiculous.
Filtered Mail
9909 Good Messages
139734 Spam Messages (93%)
468 Spam Messages Per Day
SpamSieve Accuracy
307 False Positives
69 False Negatives (18%)
99.7% Correct
Corpus
16096 Good Messages
168365 Spam Messages (91%)
2396531 Total Words
Rules
93661 Blocklist Rules
2853 Whitelist Rules
Showing Statistics Since
1/1/04 12:00 PM
I’m sitting in the Panera Bread in Saugus, MA doing some work before heading across the parking lot to the store. I tried to access my weblog here at bryanstrawser.com and got this message:
This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content Filter Service.
URL: http://www.bryanstrawser.com/
Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category “Pornography”
What the hell?!
I checked Sonicwall’s Category Descriptions and found this:
Pornographic sites containing sexually explicit material for the purpose of arousing a sexual or prurient interest.
Yup, you got it. My weblog is pornographic.
I guess I say FUCK too often.
Well, Fuck Sonicwall!
I am struggling with trying to keep my filesystems straight across my computers – this is something I really have to sit down and figure out how I want to proceed.
Short version of a very long story…
At work I have a directory stored on a networked file system – I also have files on the local drive of my work laptop.
At home I have a directory of files on my Powerbook – and another directory of files on my Powermac Desktop. I also have a home server that handles printing and other stuff in the house – and I store files on it as well. I also rent a webserver for this weblog and those of my friends.
I have to find a way to keep all of this stuff in sync – and have a backup system (for the home computers anyways) that makes sense and is reliable.
Anyone doing anything like this? How do you do it?
This is probably a good Slashdot story – I need to reword this and submit… hmm… perhaps I’ll finally get posted!
JoHo the Blog has a post up with some interesting facts about CraigsList:
Fun facts from the article: CraigsList’s 45 regional sites get a billion page views monthly and 5 million unique visitors. Classifieds account for 40-45% of a newspaper’s advertising revenues, or $15.8 billion dollars per year in the US. Craigslist’s annual revenues are guessed to be $7-$12 million/year. Craigslist does not advertise, relying on word-of-mouth.
One Billion Monthly Pageviews! Unbelieveable.
Lyris announced version 8.0 of their ListManager software earlier this week.
I used Lyris for awhile for some newsletters. It’s a great – but incredibly expensive – piece of software.
The exciting thing though is that Lyris now has RSS support – which many folks are already using to get around the spam filled inbox problem with newsletters. This is a huge win for Lyris and its users.
Nothing – and I mean nothing – is as beautiful as watching the Olympics Opening Ceremony in HDTV.
Unbelievable.
Oh, and Katie Couric isn’t on the HD NBC Channel! That just makes it even better!