by ezs | Jan 10, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
Normally you can’t go swimming with your iPod. (Pedants will point out that you could – it’s just a one time thing.)
Grania swims a lot during the summer (when the bubble roof comes off the pool) – and last year we saw some cool headphones and a small MP3 player that worked under water. We thought this would be good if you could use your existing iPod.
I just found this:
It’s a soft neoprene cover for your iPod. It caught my eye because they support all sizes of iPod – even the new Nano; also they have partnered to offer ‘flood insurance’ for the iPod itself.
Now that’s cool.
by ezs | Jan 9, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
I experimented several times during the holidays on various configurations of SpamAssassin and the like. I finally settled on something I liked and was easy to manage.
I found an addition to IPcop that added these services in a controllable manner – CopFilter – http://www.copFilter.org.
CopFilter plugs into IPcop and adds (for me) an SMTP proxy, ClamAV, SpamAssassin – as well as giving me a really simple web UI to manage things. Best of all all of the components are GPL.
I’ve trained the anti-spam – and it’s really working better so far than my own manual tweaking on a seperate server. 🙂
So far so good – I’ll keep track of the performance and post the results later.
by ezs | Jan 6, 2006 | Books, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I rejoined Audible a few months ago.
I first tried it out about three years ago when I got my first iPod (wow! three years!) and found it – somewhat clunky. Audible support was patchy on my old iPod, the software didn’t work too well – and the content was somewhat sparse.
Things have changed dramatically in the last couple of years. I am now listening to several books a month; mainly on plane journeys, also on my commute into the office.
I am currently listening to Michael Palins “Around the World in Eighty Days” – I first read this at University many years ago (1992!). Turns out the whole book is now available online.
by ezs | Jan 5, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
We’re down to less than two days worth of coffee beans!
We buy coffee in bulk from a friend.
Not like this:
but in cases of two 7kg drums. Like the ones your favourite espresso store has.
I’ll take a picture when we get a delivery. Hopefully tomorrow.
by ezs | Jan 3, 2006 | Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Following on from my earlier post on presentations – here’s a great site that I culled from Guy Kawasakis blog – presentationzen.com.
There are so many good tips in there – it’s a pleasure to just dive in and look at some of the ideas.
I don’t want to “name and shame” people who give death by PowerPoint – but I will try and adopt some of these ideas in my own work.
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