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Gentoo PortageView

Been working on a side project. It’s finished pretty much. PortageView. Its sorta a searchable database of portage. Works nice. and its Fast.

Saw Type-O Negative in concert last night. It was a great concert, except the club it was at had a lot of audio problems and Peter was getting pissed off. But what can you expect from a 25 year old club that has no working A/C.


SpamAssassin / Osirusoft

Make sure you skip RBL checks if you’re watching Osirusoft Blocklist, it’s dead.

Site Update - Blog

Made some more changes to the sites today.. Added three random images to the top right of the main page, from my photoblog. It updates the random images everytime I make a new entry. Also at the bottom of the photoblog I now display the last 6 entries thumbnails. Looks better i think.

Some links to keep you occupiedGeorgia for the second year in a row scored lowest in the nation on SAT.Governor Jeb Bush Sends Lawyers to Represent a Fetus.People killed a young autistic boy while trying to “lift” his spirits at a prayer meeting.How to use Japanese Toilets.New HP Device Converts VHS to DVDArnold interview from 1977 talking about bodybuilding and gangbangs


I don't use formmail.pl!

Lots of crawlers looking for my form mail scripts.

MSN Update Mandatory

Well, maybe I’ll stop using MSN if this really goes through, that or Microsoft releases a client for linux. October 15th is the deadline.

Microsoft is changing its MSN instant messaging service to lock out users of third-party software that uses the service as well as users of older versions of Microsoft’s own Messenger client, the company says.

Users must upgrade to newer versions of MSN or Windows Messenger by October 15 or they will no longer be able to log on, says Sean Sundwall, a Microsoft spokesperson. The upgrade is required because of “security issues” with the older versions of the Messenger clients, Sundwall says, declining to specify the issues.


Pulse Jet Engines.. The Future

The race heats up to replace the jet turbine with a more efficient source of Mach-breaking airpower: the pulse-detonation engine.

Read More : Popular Science | After Combustion: Detonation!


King of Spam Interview

This guy sends out 2 billion emails a month. It’s all spam and he’s responsible for it. Read his interview.

From his home office, where a dozen rack-mounted computer servers hum 24 hours a day, Scelson — in customary T-shirt and shorts — sends millions of e-mails to 50 or so computer servers in the USA, China, South America and Europe. It costs $20,000 a month to pump out e-mail hawking everything from insurance to toys to lingerie. Software plows through 165,000 e-mail addresses an hour, searching for the roughly 16% that are active. Automated e-mail is then sent to the accounts, asking subscribers if they want spam. On average, only 3,000 of 5 million respond “yes,” Scelson says. He says he continues to send e-mail pitches to those accounts and leaves others alone.