“Today’s lesson, my child,” said the wizened, old guru to the impetuous, young fool, “is simply this: Never, ever, under any circumstances, cut poison sumac with a chainsaw.” Now, which of these characters best represents Ed? If you voted “wizened, old guru,” well, you haven’t spent enough time around me. Call me. We’ll do coffee. […]
I just got a brand-new, top of the line, Dell Inspiron 8500. Suffice it to say that I like it. 🙂 Features: 2.4 GHz P4 processor 640 MB DDR RAM – plan to upgrade to 1 GB soon 15.4" widescreen display with 1920 x 1200 resolution – screenshot Windows XP Pro Office XP Pro 40
I’m learning to program in Java. Decided I ought to, because my current pet project will eventually require a swift port to a clustered Linux environment, if I can really make it work. That, and it would make app maintenance easier for the apps I’m writing at Crusade. Other than that, not much is new.
Today’s breakthrough is discovering a great and free spam filter for Outlook 2000 (and up) which uses Bayesian filtering. It’s called Spammunition. For those not familiar with these filters, a Bayesian filter operates on the assumption that history repeats itself: the odds of something being true in the future (or the present) can be predicted
I just re-optimized the Topsail Consulting website. It’s not finished, of course – that’ll never happen – but it should be much better off. Meanwhile, Leslie and I are going to work on setting up a PCB ’99 reunion in PCB, next year. Should be a blast. Our mower finally came back from the shop,
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