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MickC @ September 30, 2004 # 2 Comments
Kerry starts off by saying “I have a plan! I have a plan!” As he talks about this plan, he really says “I’ll do the same thing that Bush is doing!” Only I guess he’s trying to say “I’ll do what he does, but it’ll be better!”
Bush responds by talking about what [...]
MickC @ September 29, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Well, I’ve been unable to find a GUI interface for my new DNSBL. So, I’m going to be coding my own. When I get done we’ll have the following features available:
Ability to add listings via web interface
Automatic exipry of listings after 30 days
Automatic CIDR figuring
Ability to remove listings
Ability for listees to remove listings
Ability [...]
MickC @ September 28, 2004 # No Comment Yet
John Walker Lindh wants his 20 year prison sentence reduced.
I click on the link because I want to know the answer to one simple, basic question: “Why would he ever think that President Bush should do that?”
The answer, though, comes soon enough. He wants to use the “professional athlete renegotiation clause” of the US [...]
MickC @ September 27, 2004 # No Comment Yet
I’m looking for a GUI and set of scripts to use in order to control it, but I have set up a DNSBL for the use of my mailserver.
Why would I do such a thing? Because I was getting tired of adding hosts to a postfix configuration file and having to restart the mailserver. [...]
MickC @ September 25, 2004 # One Comment
Today was Timothy’s first soccer game of the season. Our team won 4-0. Timothy got his feet on the ball a few times and generally played well.
He did get in trouble a couple of times for pushing, but that’s a hustle foul and I can live with those!
MickC @ September 23, 2004 # One Comment
The following is from James Taranto’s “Best of the Web Today”.
Getting Sauced
With anticipation, we opened our e-mail this morning to see what suggestions you, our readers, would have for Heinz ketchup slogans after our item yesterday on the subject. Here are our favorites:
* “Only an idiot would use mustard.”
[...]
MickC @ September 23, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Perhaps I’m not such a swift fella, but one thing about Bill Burkett’s story has bugged me as much as anything else: Why did he go to a Kinkos in Waco?
[Click for full-size images.]
It’s not the fastest route:
It’s not the shortest route:
It’s this route:
Now, you might argue that Waco has the closest Kinkos to [...]
MickC @ September 22, 2004 # 2 Comments
I’m sure most of you have seen those pictures proporting to show that God favors Al GoreJohn Kerry in the 2004 election by showing hurricane tracks and counties and for whom a majority of people voted. Like this one (click for full size picture):
Well, I’m sick of seeing them so I did some plotting [...]
MickC @ September 22, 2004 # No Comment Yet
According to a story in The Register, some spam out there contains opt-out links which will try to install malicious software that could open backdoors, install keystroke loggers, or worse.
In the words of Alex Shipp of Messagelabs:
So not only do you confirm your email address to the spammers, you also get to host their next [...]
MickC @ September 21, 2004 # 3 Comments
The NY Sun has an interesting story on Bill Burkett suing CBS. Everyone is centering on that, and it seems that no one has noted that Burkett’s unfindable source has magically changed genders.
From the NY Sun story:
Mr. Burkett told the caller, whom Mr. Van Os identified only as “a Texas man with Air National [...]
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