Month: July 2005

junk filtering

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for the last two months i’ve had spam filtering turned on, and the floodgates of junk mail have finally turned off. i used to receive over 10,000 e-mails a week, and took it upon myself to sort through them about every two weeks. it certainly felt like a needle in a haystack finding a e-mail that was not junk, and actually is a bit fun sorting the 50,000 e-mails into subject and sender, and when 10 to 30 e-mails came from the same location, it was easily deleted.

unfortunately, it also took a few hours to get through all the digital debris. so now with spamassisin on, i get 2,000 junk mails a month, and it’s a little harder to sort, since the subject lines seem legit. i think i might actually open 15 of the 2,000, and it takes 20 minutes, instead of 20 hours. i rely mostly on mac OS X mail.app fine junk mail filter to get through the chore of finding the new needles.

moving blog to westhost.com

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so i experimented with http://www.blojsom.com/ on mac OS X server tiger, and it’s completely trivial to set up. now after a day using it, i’ve installed worldpress onto cloakmedia. and it works! it’s such a pleasure to escape the monotony of HTML editors like golive or dreamweaver (both adobe companies) and go directly to the page information. that’s why we visit sites, not to awe over the tables or CSS tags, but to read and learn. i will include some pictures in a future blog post, but for now enjoy the day to day updates on cloak media weblog service. i think i’m going to dig up my older ical blog so it can be published to the world.

this is not my first blog. i tried ical, but it was too buggy and did not display properly. now three years later, i start up my second log using a mature web application.

looking through mac OS X server 10.4 tiger edition

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i started exploring the apache services available to mac OS X server, and what a beautiful experience. in the old jaguar server, you had to edit some hidden files to enable PHP and mySQL, now there is a web interface or small app that does it for you. i just learned that i have a built in search engine for my blog and other website i deploy on the server using this unque url:

www.mywebsite.com/.spotlight

so no more going to atomz.com for free search. mac OS X server tiger will do it for me.

cloak media birth

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if everything in life was this simple. install mac OS X server 10.4 tiger on a legacy powermac G4 cube. install any and all updates. load the default bonjour website. hit start weblog. begin typing. that’s all i had to do. i learned this web application in under 20 minutes!

today i finished off my resume and business cards for my siggraph 2005 launch. in around a week i will know if i’ve made some headway into the los angeles marketplace. my solutions are a quarter away, but i’ll have a few experiences to write about. pray for me.

comet impact

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i like planetary science, but the $330 million mission to make a crater on a comet may have gone too far. we are at war, and now we are making impacts on other celestial bodies? it rings odd to me.

the pictures from the JPL NASA website are breathtaking, but why call your mission after a movie that pretty much destroyed the earth? it’s all very puzzling. take a look at the next to last image of the interactive slideshow flash site, it’s the earth getting destroyed. are they preparing us for some future event?