A comparision of Europe in the 30s and now.
All I know is that all the voices of the 30s are echoing through 2003.
Via winterspeak.
The war
jason Kottke comments on the looming war. No doubt this’ll get linked to death so I’ll just get my link in early. One of the benefits of living in GMT!
Vodafone pricing revealed
Vodafone GPRS pricing is expensive. It might be and probably is cheaper to go online via the more common high-speed charge-per-second Internet access.
It’s untrue that GPRS access is completely free. It may be free to access Vodafone services, but once you get beyond that to Google, or elsewhere, the charges mount up. It’s unfortunate, and very misleading IMO.
What can you do? Well, if access to vodafone live is free it might be possible to access email services for free. Certainly you can send emails for free until May 1st, so receiving mail from the vodafone mail server might be free too. This can’t be true if you’ve setup an external pop3 server though.
When you want to download a .sis program, or a .jar file simply mail it to yourself. It won’t always work but AFAIR I’ve installed both via email messages. You should be aware too that sending files by email increases their size by about a third.
I’ll have to setup my online billing to keep track of all these permutations to keep ahead of Vodafone methinks.
USA vetoes UN resolution to condemn Israel for death of UN employees
News from last year but I doubt it’s well known is it? The winners and the strong write history…
Advogato virus
Iraqi Geek blogs the war
Mark Twomey found an Iraqi blog. It looks like the attack is going go ahead in the next day or so, think of Salam when you see the bombs drop..
SpamAssassin – web based Bayesian training?
The latest release of SpamAssassin has support for Bayesian analysis. You have to train it and it gets better.
The only problem is SpamAssassin uses a command line app, sa-learn, to learn about your mail. Who’ll volunteer to create a web-based form to copy and paste spam/legitimate mail to train it? Adding an “upload file” button would be great too to for those mass-mail learning situations when you come into work in the morning..
It should be easy enough, although you’ll have to use su-exec or something to add rules to different user’s accounts. So, who’s up for it then?
Tooth Ache
Some Thoughts:
- When you have a tooth ache everything else takes second place.
- Oh, and the tooth ache always happens on a bank holiday weekend, to ensure maximum pain, and remind you to go to the bloody dentist more often!
- Vodka, rubbed onto the infected gum/teeth is a god-send for pain relief. It lasts almost 3 hours and it’ll let you get some measure of rest at night.
- Have an understanding partner who’ll take care of you and fuss over you.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
- Brush, floss and see your dentist more often.
I’ll probably have to get a root-canal next week, the tooth is dead so hopefully it won’t be too sore. (I’m not too hopeful though..)
La Fheile Phadraig
‘Se La Fheile Phadraig inniu! Nil moran de poblacht na hEireann ag obair agus is maith an rud e sin mar ta se go hailinn amuigh!
Bain taithneamh as an la agus an Feile, ‘cuma cen ait a bhfuil tu!
Nokia 7650 Calendar bug
Try this on your phone:
Open the calendar, and make a meeting appointment (this may affect other types of appointments too, I haven’t tested)
Set the alarm “On” and hit “Done” to save it.
Now, wait until the appointment rolls past and the alarm sounds. Edit the entry and update the time of the appointment to some time in the future.
That works fine, go down to the Alarm section and turn the alarm on again. You’ll get an error message saying “Alarm already passed!” even though the time of the appointment has been updated! It won’t let you set an alarm.