Well, it took a while, but I have a spamless life. My setup is now rather unbelievable; mail to me goes to a domain forwarder, which sends it to a mailbox. A Linux system beside my desk grabs mail from that mailbox, and runs it through a spam filter, SpamAssassin. It then reforwards good mail out to another mailbox, where I then pick it up. The extra processing takes about a minute or two — but I’m suddenly in the situation in which only 1 or 2 spam messages a day sneak through, compared to hundreds a day before. I’ve got additional procedures in place to guard against “false positives”, so that I can make sure I’m not losing important messages. But it is truly wonderful!
My dad was a cool guy …..
Perfect Microwave Popcorn!
Eight years ago, I started telling my story about “perfect microwave popcorn” — a story as to how in the future we would have appliances linked to the ‘Net, that would use a built in bar-code to read the packaging and figure out how long to cook it for.
Looks like the future is here, according to this posting at Gizmodo.
Here’s an article in which I talk about popcorn from 2000. And the “popcorn” video clip from a keynote years back in still in my video library. Watch it in Quicktime, or Windows Media
“Daddy, do we have a firewall?”
So asked my 8-year-old when he woke up this morning.
“Yes”
“Good”
Win me!
Monster.Ca is running a new direct mail campaign with respect to a new resume management tool, and one of the prizes for entering is — me!
Actually, it’s a full-fledged one hour keynote with me that you could win, based on one of my many topic areas.
I asked my kids if they would want to win me. They asked what they would get — and I explained that they could could listen to me for an hour.
They said they’d pass……
Details at monster.ca.
Helping kids remember…
I’m off to do my keynote for the US Department of Defense tomorrow. I just found this little clip — my Dad just before he died, with a short news story about a program in which he participated in as a Veteran. The aim was to spend time with young children, ensuring they remember what WWII was all about. [ Quicktime video ]
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