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SpamBayes is the anti-spam tool I prefer to use. The problem with SpamBayes is that it doesn't support SSL (i.e. port 995) and I have to use SSL to connect to my mail server. So instead, what I do now is that I tunnel the SSL connection through a program called Stunnel running locally so that SpamBayes can connect on the "insecure" port 110.

So, Thunderbird (my email client) connects to localhost:111. Then SpamBayes proxies the connection from port 111 to localhost:110. Lastly Stunnel proxies the connection from port 110 out to mail.galdrion.com:995. That way, my connection to the outside world is secure plus I get the benefit of proxying the mail back and forth.

Click the image to see a schema of my setup.

Grattis storasyster!!

Today is my sister's birthday.

Please visit her webpage and her unofficial fan page about Suede

Visit her guestbook or send an email on emailmalin@yahoo.se

How they do this I don't know but it sure is impressive. One of the coolest scenes from The Matrix animated in ASCII art.

You might need a decent sized monitor for this to look ok, but do try it

Nice! Now there's a decent Python SOAP module that I need to find time to explore. I want to set up some web services on my site that can be interfaced in different ways on other servers/clients. Just need to think of something that can be useful.

Any ideas anyone?

(more links on pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net)

These folding instructions show you how to fold a paper plane just the same why it was done by the guy who took the Guinness record with a flight of 27.6 seconds.

You can read more about the record and if you get very impressed by all this you can request an autograph :)

This website is butt ugly and uses frames but www.paperplane.org has the frames in place.

Here's a list of the possible jobs in science such as fart sniffing, stool-sample analyser, bull/pig masturbator, etc.

There's also a hall of fame which mentions "Pre-med student Stubbins Ffirth (1784–1820) ate, drank, and breathed the blood, urine and vomit of yellow-fever victims (he also dropped the fluids into his eyes and worked them into cuts on his skin)."

This can't be right? Should used books be more expensive that new ones? Or is it something obvious I'm missing here.

When I searched for Elementary Fluid Dynamics it said the price new was £25.50 but that I could buy it used for £25.94. Ok, the book this seller sells is "Absolutely New - Never Been Read" but still.

What are his chances of selling his "used" book when his price is higher than that of Amazon?

One potential benefit is if Amazon is out of stock and the seller has one available.

Today when I went to www.amazon.co.uk it immediately knew who I was (without having to log in) and what I've bought recently. It then calculated how much I could make if I sold these items using the Marketplace

This a brilliant use of web technology since it's not an emulation of what can be done in a physical store. I.e. you would never be welcomed by a sales clerk in a shop who says: "Hello again Peter. Last month you bought X, Y and Z. If you want to we can attempt to sell it on to someone else and we take only a small share".

I don't know what Amazon's cut is on the profit but obviously they've taken all factors into play. They take a cut on selling a DVD, then they can take a cut on selling it again!. Plus they get all the other marketing benefits with it at the same time.

As soon as I'm bored with the DVDs I bought that I can sell I will attempt sell them using this feature.

Went shopping at Sainsbury today and asked for £20 cash-back when I paid with my card. The cashier made a misstake and picked up a £20 note twice, hence giving me £20 too much. I noticed it immediately but didn't say anything; I just put the money down, said thank you and walked off as calmly and quickly as I could.

Yes this is naughty, but Sainsbury is a very big company and it was their fault. That's not the point. The point is the intense happiness when a thing like this happens! It more or less cancelled out my last visits at Sainsbury.

I guess I could bake in an excuse about me being a student in this proclamation of guilt.

People send pictures and explanations of funny broken things, such as computer error messages, bad road signs and challenging toasters.

Some are admittedly exaggerated but most of them are just amusing.