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There is a new anti-forgery proposal which holds a good deal of promise. It is featured in Slashdot here: Slashdot The Anti-Spam Research Group’s Plan for Spam. Below is my response to the author of the proposal (not the slashdot writer :) Hello, I really like the proposal and I think you have done a great job in presenting it. I have seen other previous proposals that didn’t seem to take off, such as “MS records” by Andrew Church or something like that. The first version was similar to your proposal here, but the second one involved a challenge-response type of system based on cryptography and I think that something complex and heavy like that is just an excuse for delay. I feel strongly that the forgery problem has to be solved NOW, or at least we should start to try to solve it now. This is why I agree strongly with your proposal and why I like it so much.

Busy me, today. Server move took about 4 hours, shopping took about 1 hour, and cooking took about 3-4 hours, including dishes.

Some pics Michelle took of Harley outside the window. (Please excuse the glare from the flash)

Posted as a comment in someone else’s journal, and I wanted to save it for me.

1 ramen package 1 meat (optional) Boiling water Frying pan with oil Boil the water. While it is getting up to a boil, open the ramen and take out the flavor packets. Cut the meat into bits at this time so it will be ready to go in. (this is assuming you have an already-cooked meat.) When the water is boiling, start the skillet or wok with oil to heat on high. You probably want enough oil to cover the bottom of the skillet. (A flat skillet works better than a wok because you want to fry all together in one place, not stirring a lot). Drop a droplet or two of water in the frying pan so you can tell when it gets to boiling (the water droplets will pop - make them really small droplets for this reason.) ...

Yesterday I bought myself Vietnamese noodle soup on the way home (and something else for M because she doesn’t care for that). Anyway, when I got home, I fumbled while lifting the soup out of the back seat and *sploot* – nice hot red beef stew directly on the back seat. Argh! I was frustrated at this for two reasons. 1. I wanted to go inside, not spend 25 minutes cleaning the car, and 2. I really wanted that soup! Oh well. I mopped it up with paper towels and napkins. Then I got an old shirt out of the trunk (on its way to be donated, now on its way to the laundry again) and went through a couple of cycles of pouring water on the seat and mopping it up with the shirt. Then I went upstairs and got soapy water and repeated a couple more times. Final step was to spray Febreze on the seat. I went upstairs and made crispy fried ramen noodles with a bit of diced ham. ...

Anything into Oil is an article in Discover magazine. I am going to be keeping a close eye on this technology. It sounds too good to be true! The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores. According to Appel, waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high-quality oil, clean-burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing. If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come out the other end as 38 pounds of oil, 7 pounds of gas, and 7 pounds of minerals, as well as 123 pounds of sterilized water. Just converting all the U.S. agricultural waste into oil and gas would yield the energy equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil annually. (In 2001 the United States imported 4.2 billion barrels of oil.) ...

I need to renumber the machine poly.polyamory.org onto a new network. I decided rather than trying to arrange time when cos and I are both available, I would switch tactics a bit so that both the new and the old IP addresses are active, and then he can do the DNS change at any time. So, I spent some time playing with Netfilter (iptables) getting it to do what I want. ...

Created new user pic: This is one possible way to write Guu-Rei-Gu in Japanese: 遇礼仇 - one who treats his enemies with courtesy All previous pics still visible here

Posted as a reply in someone else’s journal. Saving for my reference. No this does not have anything to do with my current workplace :)