Recently at work, I decided to give a short series of seminars. One of these was very strongly based on the Inbox Zero approach, which I have been using myself ever since I implemented my own Desktop Revolution last year. The general ideas are: switch off automatic email notification (e.g. sounds, popup windows); use occasional… (read more)
I’d better write this up now or I’ll never do it at all. LRL2007 took place in Wolverhampton at the weekend and was, as expected, Most Excellent. There were some good talks, some excellent freebies and plenty of people to chat to and geek-out with. After a rather frustrating drive up (during which we had… (read more)
And so the annual pilgrimage to Wolverhampton come around again: LUG Radio Live 2007 takes place this weekend. I am looking forward to it: another chance to meet up with like-minded geeks and all that. Should be lots of fun…
An open letter to Gordon Brown: Dear Gordon Brown, I see that you are now Prime Minister. Well done. I hope that you have a sense of decency and will call a General Election at the earliest opportunity. I ask this because in the General Election in 2005, Labour polled approximately 35% of the vote… (read more)
Following on from the advice in my previous post, I set up greylisting on my server. This looks to have been a good move. I haven’t gathered quite the right information to provide full statistics on this, but I do have a record of the number of messages making it through to me directly: in… (read more)
Dear Lazyweb, I’m after recommendations. I have a machine which handles mail for a number of domains and I get a lot of spam. Mail is filtered using spamassassin after being delivered, which is fine as far as it goes, but it means that all this mail actually gets delivered and processed and so on…. (read more)
This news that Dell will start pre-installing Ubuntu on some Dell PCs and laptops looks interesting. It sounds incredibly like Dell might actually have listened to its customers. They did a survey a while back and many respondents said that they wanted Linux on their desktop machine. So, Dell in conjunction with Canonical (the company… (read more)
The ZX Spectrum is 25 years old. Wow, that’s a long time ago. That machine was my first real introduction to computing, specifically to programming. The early days of what was called “home computing” were very exciting. There were those of us with Speccys and The Other Lot with Commodore 64s. There were also a… (read more)
I first read “Cryptonomicon” by Neal Stephenson shortly after it was first published, in around 1999-2000. I re-read it recently and parts of it made much more sense 🙂 For anyone who is remotely interested in mathematics, computing, cryptography, World War II history and an author who doesn’t shy away from multi-page digressions about the… (read more)
The long-awaited next release of Debian is finally here: Debian 4.0 codenamed “Etch” was released today. Debian releases are fairly infrequent (for good reason), so this is a big day in the Debian world. Some Linux users (especially some Ubuntu users) forget the importance of Debian to the whole community. I do use Ubuntu on… (read more)
