You know spam is out of hand when you get 3 emails in your inbox and 12 pieces of spam caught by Spam Assassin.
Over the past week, I’ve been slowly getting it into my head to prepare for taking the GREs (and probably applying for grad school). I even bought a practice book. Tonight, going through some of this stuff, I was reminded that I sort of like these standardized tests. I also start writing random responses to some of the issues for practice. Good to know that even if I’m out of practice, that I can still churn out some suitable fluff.
One of the many goals I have for this week is to catch up and organize my email. All of it. I only have about 100 non-list messages to read (but about 5000 to file), and I’m about 2000 messages behind on mailing lists. The nice thing I suppose is coming across random interesting stuff, like this online book on building custom CMSses entitled Content Management Design.
I’ve spent most of my free time of past few days working on computer stuff. My bid to do a remote OS switch over wasn’t successful (praise be for lilo -R), I may try again, or may just consign myself to running Red Hat. While cleaning out some old hardware, I managed to fry (wee, smoke) a 5 year old hard drive. Luckilly I had just transferred and burned the data on it. Hmm, the Sony DRU-500A is only $300…
Good interlacing guide: What is Deinterlacing? Facts, solutions, examples
Awesome: Two Towers Protest
Whoa, messed up: Hundreds of Muslim Immigrants Rounded Up in Calif.
I was waiting for Ev to mention the Mozilla textarea selection bug. I first noticed it back in the summer of 2000 (giving up in the winter), and it’s been continually pushed back ever since. (I’ve revisited the issue every few months or so. The last time I mucked around was earlier this summer.)