New kitchens

When I moved from Dulwich Hill to Marrickville, I was completely lost in my kitchen for a couple of months!
– Ben

Fortunately, he got out again…

US broadcast flag

I’m not entirely sure what this is all about, but it’s an interesting read. Appears to be semi-DRM related?

Via PhotoMatt.

Trend Micro spam filtering

A client contacted me a few days ago about a message sent by a mailing list script I’d written being falsely tagged as spam by their Trend Micro filtering system. They wanted me to change a few things in the mailing list output to see if it made a difference, but I’m trying to track down exactly WHAT the messages are scoring points on and WHY, rather than changing things in an ad-hoc fashion in the hope of hitting something.

Trouble is, there’s close to no documentation on Trend Micro’s free desktop filtering for Outlook, and all I can gleam from the mail headers is this obscure line:

X-tis-spam: score=7.80000 (90,112102,110534,112020)

Great, hey? Has anyone had any luck/experience with filtering before? I don’t even know if it’s what’s caused that line to be added to the headers — it could be any one of the three other mail servers the message passed through before it got to his inbox!

More on Make Love not Spam

This message from the contact form today:

Hi,

Just read your post about wanting to find something similar to Make Love Not Spam and I’ve found one that was rleeased yesterday.
It’s called FraudFighter and can be foudn at http://FraudFighter.NetworkPunk.com

The message came from a guy at http://www.coastbeat.com/ (the website doesn’t have much on it!).

iWhiteBook

Some would call it blasphemy, but I just think it’s amusing. At a meeting today it was discovered that the rear surface of iBooks functions magnificently as a whiteboard… albeit a rather expensive one.

I don’t believe Michael’s laptop suffered any lasting damage…