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Life without Madonna…or learn the banjo now
John Ludwig points out the music business is collapsing and “Joseph Lasica”:http://www.jdlasica.com/blog/archives/2003_09_08.html#001472 has some sage advice on the topic. Hard for me to imagine since I’ve lived my days in the world where music was so important and everyone wanted to hear the latest. Back to the days of going to clubs I guess. Seriously,…
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Spam Conference
Spam Conference. The last spam conference was super interesting. At MIT again this year. Some good theoretical work. “Spam 2003 Conference”:http://spamconference.org/proceedings2003.html. These were the presentations from last year.
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Mail Frontier
Home – MailFrontier, Inc.. “Brad”:http://www.thesiverbergs.com says that this is a good product. Need to look at. Just did another round. A silicon valley deal with Draper Fisher Jurvetson and NEA in the A round and Menlo did a $10M B round.
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Outclass: New VErsion
Outclass: Mail Classification for Outlook with POPFile. A pretty big upgrade for this mail classification. Check it out. Best thing is getting rid of the training mode stuff.
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Spam beats Bayesian Filtering
The Fishbowl: Bayesian Filtering: The Spam Fights Back. BEsids having the absolutely best tagline for a web site (tail -f /dev/mind > blog), he does a good job explaing the latest attacks on spam filters. I’ve been using a Bayesian filter called popfile with good results, but this latest attack will mystify it. “Spammers Compendium”:http://www.jgc.org/tsc/index.htm.…
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Furrygoats view on DVD Burning Software
DVD Software Best of Breed. Another hat tip to Ludwig. This is Furrygoat’s view of good DVD software. He likes DVDLabs, TMP2Enc and Nero which I agree with. And, Windows Movie Maker which I don’t like. The ones I need to try in addition are: “Muvee Auto Producer”:http://muvee.com. This is an editing package for $50.…
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A Teaching Program That Actually Works…
UCDS and the John Neilson Fund _John Neilson passed away several years ago, but his memory lives on. Connie and I contributed to a fund for teaching and education. Here are some results from a program that is part of the teaching center it supports. It is kind of cool to see something that actually…
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ProLink Chain Lube Use
_Hat tip to “Roadbikerider.com”:http://roadbikerider.com newsletter on this tip about ProLink._ I can’t say enough about ProLink. It keeps a chain running clean, it lasts longer than any lube I’ve used, it seems impervious to water, and it increases chain life substantially. You can find our full review at “ProLink”:http://www.roadbikerider.com/products.htm If you buy the 32-oz. size,…
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Road Rides late 2003 and 2004
Well, it’s time to think about virtual next year. The summer is done, so what rides am I committing to and training for. Here is the list: * Ride for the Roses. October 26, 2003. Sunday. Ride for the Roses is a century in Austin. Sounds like a wonderful event. Saturday is the all day…
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George Patton Quotes
General George Patton quotation. Less poetic than Mao, but pretty colorful advice on warfare.