Tonight I registered to vote for the very first time. That I did so in a movie theatre immediately before seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 should give a pretty good indication of my motives for doing so. After seeing the movie, all I can say is: WTF GWB. Seriously. I mean, Michael Moore obviously made the film to convey a point and as such I’m sure there are things that were slanted toward that point. Still if even half of the material in the film is true as it was presented, well it’s just sad to think about. The film didn’t really influence my existing political views but it did convince me to finally lose my apathy regarding voting and that’s got to be a good thing.
Monthly Archive for June, 2004
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Alright this is definitely the biggest news I’ve ever been able to post, so here it is: Jolayne and I are getting married! How awesome is that? (A hint: it’s between very, very awesome and very, very, very awesome) That’s right, I proposed yesterday, and as you can tell, she said yes! Right now we’re trying not to think about all of the craziness and planning that’s bound to be coming up and just enjoy it. I have no idea at all what it takes to plan a wedding so perhaps that’s why I’m not properly frightened yet. Today was just crazy at work. I had the hardest time concentrating because I just kept thinking about it and smiling. A friend of mine (that I had told about the upcoming proposal, or “P-Day” as we like to call it) brought in two cakes, one of which said “Congratulations, Will” and the other which was blank. He and his wife were planning to have it say “Better Luck Next Time” just to cover all the bases, but didn’t know if anyone would think it was funny. Personally, I thought it would have been great. I’m still just really excited. Wow. Wow!
Just in case you were wondering, this is how quickly I would die in a cheesy zombie flick. No surprises here really. (via dklegman)
I happened to be strolling around Circuit City yesterday afternoon when I stumbled across a 160 GB Western Digital hard drive that was on sale for $70! After rebate, naturally, but still that’s something like 44 cents per gig. Storage really is dirt cheap these days, and I love it. My justification for picking it up was for use in my long talked about but little worked on TiVo-esque machine. This brings me up to 428 GB of total storage between all my drives. After getting the hard drive I figured there wasn’t really any point in sitting around talking about it anymore so I ordered this power supply from NewEgg. When that gets in I should finally have everything I need.
Brett’s recent post on the horrors of spam and the need for advanced filtering tools reminded me that I’d been meaning to mention my own spam filtering set up that I switched to several weeks ago. I’ve been using Popfile in addition to Outclass (which integrates it into Outlook 2002) and I love it. Previously I’d been using SpamFighter, which was decent but no longer had a free version, at least not one without ads. Popfile uses Bayesian filtering which definitely seems to be the way to go. It wasn’t too bad right after installing it, but after training it by reclassifying what it missed for a while it’s become nearly unstoppable. I’d say that I average maybe 20-30 pieces of spam per day and out of that maybe 1 per week makes it through. False positives were a bit of a problem, but again its gotten much much better by learning. Unfortunately, no matter how reliable a filter is with false positives I still feel the need to scan my junk folder from time to time just to check, which sort of defeats the purpose a little.
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