Chicagoist weighs in on the yellow ribbon magnet issue: Supporting Our Troops Is The New AIDS
I support the troops. If fact, I would support them so much as to not send them to die, ill-equipped and for no good reason.
The CNN pages is chilling. Yes, 9 out of 10 are younger than you.
Bruce Tognazzini presents 10 persistent design bugs (of which there are only 7 at this time). Some of these are strangely applicable to fields other than computer interface design. Not often do people think, “How can I make this better?” Most often we just complain about poor design.
College basketball started tonight - or at least I saw my first game of the year tonight, and it happened to be a Wake Forest game.
The new season also brings a host of new commentators. ESPN has Mike Jarvis (ex of George Washington and later St. Johns) in the studio. Rick Majerus, formerly the coach of Utah, is doing commentary on the Wake game. Jarvis I don’t like that much. Majerus is good. I wonder if he is Canadian, since he keeps saying offense, with a long o.
I’m going with Futura for the time being.
Poor Table Manners Lead to Stabbings:
WORCESTER, Mass. Nov 26, 2004 - A man was charged with stabbing two relatives after they allegedly criticized his table manners during Thanksgiving dinner.
Police said the fight broke out Thursday when Gonzalo Ocasio, 49, and his 18-year-old son, Gonzalo Jr., reprimanded Frank Palacious for picking at the turkey with his fingers, instead of slicing off pieces with a knife.
Palacious, 24, described by police only as an uncle, allegedly responded by stabbing them with a carving knife.
Or whoever it was that wrote and sang their “music”…
Together we’re one, separated we’re two
Here are my SpamSieve statistics for the last two months: nearly 7,000 messages, 3/5 of them spam. The accuracy is up over 97%.
Filtered Mail
2885 Good Messages
4046 Spam Messages (58%)
65 Spam Messages Per Day
SpamSieve Accuracy
9 False Positives
170 False Negatives (95%)
97.4% Correct
Corpus
412 Good Messages
681 Spam Messages (62%)
66335 Total Words
Rules
346 Blocklist Rules
2018 Whitelist Rules
Showing Statistics Since
9/22/04 1:00 AM