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3:20 pm Installed air conditioner 3:21 pm Turned the puppy on.

Today’s dream involves me on a train and a bus.

OK, first day of my vacation is here. We are planning to use this week to finish up various chores and home improvement tasks (see my to-do list in previous entry). We have already managed to do a few things, most of the big stuff is still remaining to do. The big stuff is mainly painting the rest of the bathroom and installing the cove base and the various wall fixtures again. ...

Would like to do this week: Clean up Clean up bedroom: Heater, TV stand, futon frame Clean up patio: Wood, Wire fence material, Cat kennel, Litter boxes, Extra area rug, chair Clean up kitchen: Cookbooks, Tools, Duct tape, Rice cooker, Sandwich grill, Stuff on cutting board Clean up my desk File papers Clean up living room: Box of computer stuff, bag of games, two cat carriers, stuff on hearth Clean up dining room: Extension cord, tools, bag of games, old receipts, bags, papers ...

Remember my spam rant from Monday? Well it looks like one of these ideas is not new, and is proposed as a draft for a future RFC. It is here. Here is my feedback to the author… I hope it gets adopted and accepted by people. We have a domain that was used for free email before (altavista.com) and even though we stopped the service, we still get hundreds of complaints of “Your user sent me this spam!” - all of them are forged. So I think it would be excellent to get MS records in place, even if acceptance is not widespread, all it takes is a couple large receivers to adopt it and spammers will learn to avoid domains with MS records. ...

I have been thinking about ways to alter email programs (readers, servers, protocols) so that sending spam would be more difficult, and hopefully more expensive and less feasible for spammers. Yes, this is a tremendously difficult problem, but it is also a very important one, so much so that I am surprised it hasn’t been solved already. A friend posted this link which is a filtering system based on this idea. It’s a very interesting way to judge whether something is spam based on parsing out all the words and tokens from two large containers of mail: one with spam, and one with your legitimate mail. It’s a cool idea because it is adaptive, and the criteria is set by each user (or each group that chooses to share info about good and bad messages). ...

More story ideas. These could be used for either a tabletop rpg, a mush, written stories, or a combination of things.

8/1: none 8/2: none 8/3: none 8/4: none 8/5: none 8/6: none 8/7: none 8/8: none 8/9: none 8/10: none 8/11: walking, 30 min 8/12: none 8/13: walking, 30 min 8/14: walking, 30 min 8/15: none 8/16: none 8/17: none 8/18: walking, 30 min 8/19: none 8/20: none 8/21: none 8/22: none 8/23: none 8/24: walking, 40 min 8/25: up and down stairs 6 times :) 8/26: none 8/27: walking, 30 min 8/28: none 8/29: none 8/30: walking, 30 min 8/31: walking, 30 min

Monday: Took air conditioner back to Fry’s. The guy wanted to give me a hard time and asked why I didn’t notice the damage until after I took it home. I just said I was in a hurry when I bought it, and waited to see what else he would say. I guess he expected the manager to give me a hard time too, but the other guy just came and entered his code, and he seemed to be more distracted by the new data entry screen than by my return. Anyway, I won’t be buying any more major appliances from Fry’s… what a hassle that was. ...

Friends (and you know who you are) - please, if you’re going to post quiz results, or anything with pictures in it, please put in an lj-cut tag! If I have you bookmarked on my friends page, it’s probably because I like reading what you write, and you’re cool enough to pay attention to. Take that as a compliment! But personally I don’t really care for quizzes, because they’re 1) they’re basically ads, 2) they contain large pictures, and 3) it’s something you didn’t write, and I much prefer to read about what you think, feel, and believe. ...