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…and finally started using a spreadsheet. analysis: it’s faster to prototype in than my previous solution (“awk”) – but not siginificantly more powerful in the space which I use it.

today has been an exercise in spam reduction – it’s been quiet because the entire united states is on vacation this week, so i decided to write a spam-pattern-matcher and wire it into procmail to do more intelligent filtering of my inbox. that occupied a merry two hours. now what? weekend before last was the…

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At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he was sorry, but he didn’t have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. — Aberdeen Evening Express

Off to see The Polyphonic Spree and Mull Historical Society next week, and am getting Cropredy sorted out early, this year. Trying not to mess it up like last year…

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well it’s been dull. at the drop of a hat, i wanted to travel to land’s end, the southwesterly corner of britain, and marvellously close to a selection of SIGINT locations to add to my collection. considered going down on saturday, but hadn’t planned this trip well enough to raise my confidence above threshold, so…

a rehash of the past two weeks… i got back from the usa in my traditional daze, and suffered getting-on for 10 days worth of return jet lag for a trivial investment of five days away. this is one reason why it is increasingly uneconomic for work to send me to the usa, because as…

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I flew out to the San Francisco Bay Area last sunday, just before the bank holiday, and only got back on saturday morning. It’s been a long week, very scheduled, generally enjoyable, but now I am back safe and suffering the effects of theraputic gardening. Recap of the week: Sunday: I flew out on this…