In newsgroups and many mailing lists top-posting (putting your reply above the text you’re replying to) is a big no-no. You’ll get flamed even if what you say is very useful, constructive, and nice. I’ve never quite understood the zealotry, but I figured: whatever, it sort of makes sense – someone says something, and then …
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I’ve been pondering how one may be able to get rid of spam. Not just what comes into my mailbox, but most spam everywhere. And I found such a simple solution it’s amazing I haven’t heard of it before. But of course it will never happen, so that probably explains it. Spammers rely on that …
Continue reading Easy but impossible way to get rid of spamSome people don’t get this, and they’ll never read this blog post, and there are too many of them to contact individually, so this is just me complaining with no purpose. When I give you my email address – I give you my address. I only give it to people because I have no desire …
Continue reading Stop giving out my email address you twatsSunday was a nice day, and at about 17:00 I decided to go for a ride to Niagara. Everything went ok on the way there, things look nice in the spring. Got to go onto the hill that you can see south of the QEW, always wanted to do that. Then it started to get …
Continue reading Niagara to Vaughan on a bike, at nightA few months ago my computer started squealing. It was annoying when it started – a kind of squeeck squeeck one or two seconds each, once a day. But recently one or two seconds turned into five or 6 seconds and once a day into twice and hour. You have no idea how bad it …
Continue reading SqueeeeeeeeeeI’m gettng a master’s degree. And in the current course I have one of those professors who act like something’s up their ass whenever someone cites a work that’s not ‘academic’. For the assignment this week I actually needed to get my hands on some academic papers, because the topic is so uninteresting noone else …
Continue reading Bloody scholarly papersYesterday I wanted to find my MP to write to him/her about the conservative’s planed changes to copyright legislation. All I know about politics where I live is that my former MPP was an italian liberal and the current MPP is a conservative jew. Not much to go on, but at least I have an …
Continue reading The tale of a number of somethingsToday I’ve heard a story about how an IT company can’t find qualified employees. It’s the third time in two weeks that I’ve heard such a story, every time from a different company. And being a reasonably competent recent graduate looking for full-time employment – this was the final straw for me – I had …
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