A Peculiar Blog

After a LONG time without updates, version 1.2.5-Beta of Mixminion Message Sender is now available.
There’s been several changes / tweaks in the code (see the changelog below) and I’ve created a new distribution that includes Mixminion ready to run “out of the box”.
I have not yet been able to compile Win32 binaries of the latest [...]

There’s a saying to the effect that those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. I saw something today that I have to say is very disturbing. It was a tagline somebody used on a post:
The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the [...]

Back on March 21 I decided to try putting one of those “Chip-in” widgets in the sidebar. The idea was to raise enough cash to get a digital camera. Something better than the Polaroid Photomax Digital 320 that we’ve got laying around here or the webcam that, on a good day, can manage [...]

Wanna see something funny? Take a look at the stair lift website for Jameson Medical, Inc. Once the page loads, hit your “Page Down” key once.
You’ll be greeted with an animated .gif of a lady on a stair lift chair, up she goes, then it cuts to a wide shot of a roller [...]

I’m currently working on an update to Mixminion Message Sender and while I’m at it, I’d like to expand the number of mail2news gateways that it’s set up to use for posting to usenet.
Currently, I know of three that accept the name(s) of the newsgroup(s) as part of the “To:” address. This format is [...]

There’s a piece in the NYTimes about lawyers having to fly all over the place and take all sorts of measures because they’re afraid of their contact with clients being monitored by the US government.
While I’m never going to be sympathetic to terrorists & their supporters, it’s part of how things are *supposed* to be [...]

Ever get the admonition from your parents that “Money doesn’t grow on trees” or variations of it such as “[mistreated, expensive, and/or hard to find item] doesn’t grow on trees”? I’m reminded of that now as our household finds itself in need of a laptop or three to supplement our desktop systems with the [...]

I think it’s pretty safe to say that the fact that there are government agencies doing a lot of snooping on all manner of Internet traffic. It’s also safe to say that since 9-11 this snooping has escalated massively. Now, the FBI is trying to get access to data that the NSA has [...]

The Renuzit TriScents Transform Your Home with Tanya Memme contest entries are in and now they want people to take a look at the semi-finalist gallery and view the 10 entries and vote for the one you think most deserves to win the grand prize: A $20,000 home makeover.
After looking over the entries, a mixture [...]

There’s a form of “spring cleaning” that are actually a good idea to do on a monthly basis if you can. Of course, there’s always stuff that gets in the way of doing things like this so it ends up being an annual or semi-annual event.
Cleaning out the computer case. This applies especially [...]