Sunday, August 11, 2002

Luncheon meat chronicles: In my ever vigilant attempt to wipe spam from my life I have installed a powerful filter. And, with a lot of tweaking over the past four days or so the software has even come to recognize the difference between press releases and actual spam (although sometimes its hard even for me to tell). Now, almost nothing gets by it. The problem is that it still (as it should, because it just might mislabel an important message) leaves the decision up to me as to whether or not I kill the spam outright or take a tiny look to see what it was about in the first place. And you know what? It's hard not to read it anyway. Ever gradually, though I am winning against my own self-defeating nature. Next I beat the late night popcorn craving. 6:44:08 AM    comment []

Ah, those ethical Brits: Those who have been following the blog-driven plight of former Houston Chronicle journalist Steve Olafson (and I'm sure you have), might be interested in a rant (journalistic ethics division) by Andrew Orlowski. Thanks for the reference, Craig. 6:28:12 AM    comment []

You can count on me, or not: Perhaps because I'm so lazy about keeping this blog fed with items, I have stopped looking at where Golf for Cats ranks among readers. In the first few days I was obessed with (well, okay, no more than a type A behaviour person is with anything else in his life) where GfC stood in relation to other blogs. Now that my days of free use are winding down to a precious few I have abandoned this compulsion. Or not. Who knows, I just might take another peek. 6:21:18 AM    comment []