Spam

Filed January 19, 2007 at 3:22 pm under Geeky by TJ

Here’s some random thoughts that will be very boring to the non-geeky type.

Anyone tired of spam yet?  I know I am, as they even finally got my super secret spy ninja fly bat phone email address.  I’m able to filter just about all spam except for the stock scam pump and dump crap.  My spamassassin filters just don’t seem up to the task of getting rid of these.  Anyone else know of a linux server based filter (or SA ruleset) that is actually effective at getting rid of them?  I have SA set to drop anything over 4, and these have been coming up anywhere from a .5 to a 3.9 score.  I may have to do some ruleset tweaking.  Any suggestions?

Then to top it all off, someone tried to spam the comments portion of this site a couple of days ago.  How rude…  Fortunatly, my Wordpress spam setup (comment approval for new people – plus image verification to keep out bots) seems to work OK.

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Filed January 10, 2007 at 11:18 am under Get Fit... by TJ

Yeah, I know, no update recently, things have been kind of hectic.  New baby, my neck surgery, lovely wife’s gall bladder surgery; everything adds up.  I’m back to working full time now, and may have a little more motivation to write more here. 

Speaking of motivation, how’s this for some?  I’m back into running again (I hate the term jog).  I’m planning on running 40 miles this month.  The motivation is if I don’t get it done, I’ll let someone shave my head bald come 2/1.  Believe me, I’ll get it done, I don’t look good bald.

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