Yep. Today’s the day when I head back to work. It’s been nice having a week and a half off, but now that’s done. I’ve got a lot of work to do in the next month or two, so things might be quiet around here. As for the break, the only thing I really regret is missing the New Year’s Eve party, but that didn’t even start until 8pm (a reasonable time), and due to my screwy schedule, I was already thinking of going to bed when it was time to start getting ready for the party. Sigh.
As I mentioned in passing last time, I’ve had trouble getting email through to my friend Bob. Doesn’t surprise me. There are plenty of other times when my email has been caught by overly-aggressive spam-filters out there. The latest numbers say that about 90% of all email is spam. I’m seeing closer to 95% that actually gets through to my Mac, plus however much spam is getting filtered at the server that I don’t even see. It’s pretty absurd. I don’t know what the solution is, but I sure hope someone comes up with one relatively soon.
- News in the gun world: Remington to Acquire Marlin Firearms. I sure hope Remington keeps the Marlin brand (and rifles) alive. [endwar]
- Dave Winer’s been talking about a security issue he has with Apple. When he took his computer in for repair, they swapped hard drives. But they won’t let him get his old drive back, so he’s unable to ensure secure destruction of the sensitive data on it. Shame on Apple for this. [scripting]
- The headline TSA to punish fliers for facecrime is perhaps a bit hysterical, but I like the content. Seems Orwell was just a little optimistic, and we’re running about a quarter century behind. [boing boing]