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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.
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Philosophy of Warfare
BELLUM – warfare philosophy. Super well organized site on the philosophy and doctrine of warfare through the ages
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Peer Guardian and Filetopia
Some quick notes on cool tools that I’ve been exploring lately around the area of IP blocking * “kazaa-lite”:http://www.kazaalitekpp.com/. This is clean version of Kazaa. Doesn’t have spyware. Also implements IP blocking through a central “list”:http://kazaalite.host.sk/dl/BannedIpRanges.txt. The list itself is an interesting read for nerds. * “PeerGuardian”:http://peerguardian.net. This is a general purpose IP blocker. Sort…
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State of HDTV in Seattle
Well, it’s a pretty sad picture for HDTV particularly in Seattle. But at least a little better than a year ago. Seems like it is hard to get information on what works and what doesn’t. Here is what I’ve found out via sites like “HDTV Pub”:http://www.hdtvpub.com/ which keeps track of such stuff: * “Over the…
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Blackberry 7210/7230 woes and FAQ
I truly love the new Blackberry (really a blueberry), but it is amazing how hard it is to get support for it. Between the carrier and Blackberry, it doesn’t seem like there is a place to find out what is going on. So it is off to Google we go. BTW, the only difference between…
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Fall Cell Phone and Plan Analysis
Well, it’s time for Rich’s twice-yearly shuffle of cell phones and plans. When number portability strikes, it will be even easier, but right now of the five or so phones I manage for my family, most have contracts ending around now. here is what I’m doing and other advice for you: h4. Best GSM Plans…
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Power Tools for Power Meters
Power Profiling. First set of tools I’ve seen for firguring out what all that wattage stuff means when you are training.
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Eurobike 2004
Eurobike 2003. More things to drool over in terms of biking hardware. Notable things: * Colnago C-50. The next generation from Ernesto. * Trek 5600 Superlight. The bike I own except that for 2004, they are shipping Lance’s improved model. Cuts nearly 151 grams over the 2003 ?model by tweaking the lugs and tubes. Total…
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Rides around Seattle
Seattle has some really great road bike rides as well as close by mountain biking. Here’s a list of places that I go: * Ride around Lake Washington. This is the classic 60 or so mile ride around the lake. I’ve done a bunch. Main issue is that traffic particularly around Kirkland and also Renton.…
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AOL Blogs
Hat tip to Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog. AOL launches a blogging service. I’ve got to say that with Jon Miller taking over, they really are doing more software. Cranked out AOL 8.0 after a long hiatus. Then pumped out AOL 9.0 Optimized (don’t understand that branding myself) about six months later. Now they are doing AOL…
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Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
Hat tip to Zagula on Tufte’s new book on bad PowerPoint presentations. IMHO, blaming PowerPoint for bad presentations is a little like blaming Word for your essay not being Shakespearean. Or Outlook for long turgid email. Or MovableType for a boring blog. The darn thing is a tool and you can really misuse it. No…
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MIT Classes online
“MIT Open Courseware”:http://ocw.mit.edu. Hat tip to Ludwig. Hat tip again. What a cool idea. You can take any MIT class online. Sounds like Software Engineering 6.170 is a wonderful course. Also shows how global the knowledge worker business has become. The “Wired”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit.html piece talks about a Vietnamese student in Ho Chi Minh City taking courses…
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Kazaa Hash Issues
Updates on the P2P business: * “P2P Links”:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tim.leonard1/webdir/index.htm. Tim Leonard did P2P guardian (a nice IP blocking program) and has some good links to track the P2P business. * “Zeropaid”:http://www.zeropaid.com/. A whole portal just for file sharing. * “Boycott RIAA”:http://www.boycott-riaa.com. Pretty humorous site that tracks the RIAA. * Zeropaid.com – Music industry uses vulnerability in…
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Tyler Hamilton's Inside Story
Tyler tunes: Teamwork smooths out bumps in a tough Tour. The Tour de France is long over, but I thought this inside story on how it went for Tyler’s team (CSC) was pretty amazing. Shows how much suffering there is. Some samples: * When we decided I would try to ride the next day, I…
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Ogg Vorbis and other formats
I’m experimenting with funky new encoders that are coming out all the time. For instance. XIPH:http://xiph.org seems to have an amazing collection of encoders: * A speech encoder called SPEEX * Vorbis for music. There is a nice 5MB encoder called OggDrop that includes the encoder. * FLAC is now a XIPH project as well…
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Monkey's Audio
“Modatic.net”:http://www.modatic.net/audio/ape.php. Another site says that Monkey’s Audio is the best performing, so I’ll try it. It is Windows only though.
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Trek 5900 Headset Problems
Replacement headset for Trek 5900. Great set of posts about the headsets in the 5900 vs the 5500s. A good discussion about the custom headset used in the 5900 frame that saves a few ounces and allows an a strong aluminum steerer rather than a carbon fiber one that will get destroyed if you over…
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Disneyland Ho!
Went to Disneyland for five solid days. Yikes, I can’t believe it. Good thing I’m a kid at heart. Also learned a ton about how to make it a great trip. Here are the top ten hints: * Read “Undiscovered Guide to Disneyland”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764566059/qid=1061792942/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-7370691-7420060?v=glance&s=books&n=507846. A great book that overviews getting around Disneyland. This is the 2003…
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Archiving Music
One of the things I’ve been doing is to work on having an archive of CDs. The kids just destroy CDs at an amazing rate (only cassettes are less durable :-). So, here’s my strategy for archiving things. I archive into two formats: * A lossless format so that I can recover the exact audio…
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Miniature Golf in Seattle (a.k.a. Where's the Putt Putt?)
We’ve been looking at local search over at work. Here’s one example of the current (!!!) state of the art. If you for instance wanted to play miniature golf in Seattle. Here is what Google tells you:
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Moblogs – Mobile Blogs
Moblogs By TextAmerica. An amazing site. Has a complete connection to folks with camera phones. Also see the incredible “Blackout”:http://blackout.textamerica.com/default.asp?r=34245&prev=1 Moblogs. Amazing how real time this is.
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Recent Comments
Hat tip to “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com, I just added recent comments to the side panel. It is something I respond to every day and it is much more convenient to see it on the blog than to read it in email as I’ve been doing. Not clear how new trackback pings work. I don’t these are counted…