Theodicius

Good. Evil. Bratwurst.

What’s up with GMail?

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 11:42 am

I’ve been noticing a sharp upturn in comment spam including bizarre references to gmail servers, such as www2-2.gmail.com and I can’t figure out what’s up. The comments are archetypical spam comments, but the message, instead of containing links to products, contains several similar links to gmail servers. I generally still shoot on sight, but I’m […]

Rosemary and Thyme

Filed under: General,Mystery— arlen@ 5:07 pm

My local PBS station is carrying this show, and I caught three episodes last night. It’s a passable mystery, though I have to admit I’m usually at least 15 minutes ahead of the detectives, so I can’t say it’s plotted very well. But it was good to see Felicity Kendall in action again. Sigh. I […]

I Resign as the World’s Archivist

Filed under: General— arlen@ 5:06 pm

I just filled a 30-gallon paper recycling tub with old magazines. Constitutes a bit of a breakthrough for me, personally. I’ve finally internalized the absolute fact that history does not depend upon my personal archives. It’s part of a continual war on clutter that I’m engaged in. I’m in the process of reclaiming my house […]

A step forward

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 8:16 am

Since i throw rocks without hesitation, I should be equally quick to acknowledge progress. Drupal 4.7 includes a new module installation bit, which is a very big step forward from the previous version. It’s actually friendy, something I’ve not run across very often before. Since I’ve compared Drupal and Joomla before on this blog, it’s […]

Why Spamcop sucks

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 10:21 am

I’ve been having intermittent email outages at a client site that I’ve been trying for months to diagnose. Finally managed to get my hands on enough information to do so, and I find the problem is spamcop. The client has a lot of field people, who have yahoo email accounts. The web hosting service the […]

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