During the w/e, me and my significant other moved from our three room appartment to the house we recently bought. It has like six rooms, two bathrooms + sauna, garage, storage shed etc. It’s friggin’ huge (compared to what I’m used to anyway). The actual move was a painful experience in many ways. Mostly due to the fact that my body isn’t accustomed to that much physical labor. The only thing left now is to get the house in order. We have boxes full of stuff everywhere (I’m not kidding). Also, I’m waiting for my DSL-connection to be installed.
Spam & Greylisting
March 13th, 2005 by dempa No comments »Once upon a time, spam was something delivered in a can. Nowadays, it comes in all flavors directly delivered to your mailbox. Get a bigger/longer penis, buy cheap meds, get a university diploma etc. And lets not forget all the nice letters from Nigeria. I read somewhere that spam already constitutes over 50% of all email traffic on the internet. That’s just wrong. On my own mailserver I’ve used SpamAssassin since day 1. It’s a really nice server-side filter for guessing which emails are spam and tagging them accordingly. It’s then up to your email client or some other filter to do whatever’s appropriate. However, this still requires your email server to do alot of processing. Enter a “new” technique for stopping spam at the door – Greylisting!
New site launched!
March 10th, 2005 by dempa No comments »Greetings people! After testing out WordPress for a couple of weeks, I today decided to release my new site. As I mentioned, it’s powered by WordPress among other things. The current theme is designed by me with some CSS borrowed from the WordPress 1.5 default theme. I’ve also written some custom template code for the My music page.
Firefox: Keyword Search is fantastic, but…
February 24th, 2005 by dempa 1 comment »
I’ve been using keyword searches in Firefox since it was introduced. I love it! I use it for Google, IMDB etc. There’s a problem though. If you need more than one search term, Firefox separates them with “%20″ instead of the more correct use of a plus (+) sign. This breaks some searches, for example Allmusic and Wikipedia. Today I discovered that there’s a bug entry for this in Firefox’s bug tracker and it’s called “Bug #247645: spaces should be encoded as plus signs in keyword search”. It was opened June 19 2004, so I guess it’s not high priority over at Firefox HQ. Hopefully they’ll get around to it in Firefox 1.1 or something. I could grab the code, fix this myself and the recompile the whole thing. This is definately something I would have done 7 years ago, but now I’m just too lazy. ;)
Loss of inspiration – The story of my life
February 24th, 2005 by dempa No comments »I’m in a bit of a slump music wise again… Surprise, surprise. If you’ve been following my “career” during the years… you know I end up in these kinds of things now and then. Actually, I think the periods of great inspiration loss are winning. I always ask myself – why? Why do I have these long, long periods of “silence”. To be honest, I haven’t got the faintest clue. I’ve tried to really analyze this, but after a while I gets kinda boring. I guess I should just let it go. Who knows, maybe I’ll be able to make music if I stop to think about making music… Ehm, oh well. Don’t mind me, I’m rambling. ;)
