I don't have to go on about how good the gmail spam filter is, like every spam filter some things get through, but it learns very well. So I thought I'd run a test and since Jan 1st 2008 I've not deleted any spam from the folder manually and just let it rack up from zero ...
... in a month I've got 20,913 spam?! How crazy is that?! I know I've had one of my domains for over 8 years and I've got a catch all on it, but thats just mad!
Wonder how Feb will do :-)
Friday, 1 February 2008
Monday, 28 January 2008
Happy Birthday Lego!
Just a quick post, while I'm drinking a nice coffee before heading off to work, to say happy anniversary to lego! and on my birthday too!! :-)
Lego turns 50 and I turn 25 ... what a day!! :-)
Lego turns 50 and I turn 25 ... what a day!! :-)
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Pandora is no more :-(
When you load pandora now you get the following message ...
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Dear Pandora Visitor,
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
We believe that you are in United Kingdom (your IP address appears to be xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). If you believe we have made a mistake, we apologize and ask that you please contact us at pandora-support@pandora.com
If you are a paid subscriber, please contact us at pandora-support@pandora.com and we will issue a pro-rated refund to the credit card you used to sign up. If you have been using Pandora, we will keep a record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting for you.
We will be notifying listeners as licensing agreements are established in individual countries. If you would like to be notified by email when Pandora is available in your country, please enter your email address below. The pace of global licensing is hard to predict, but we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our service everywhere.
We share your disappointment and greatly appreciate your understanding.
Sincerely,
Tim Westergren
Founder
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This sucks as its one of the only places where we can listen to music at work and its really a sad day when its completely restricted.
Its a sad day, hopefully it will come back to the UK shores ... if only the UK based record industry would pull their finger out and realise that these types of ventures make people go out and buy music!!
Peace!
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Dear Pandora Visitor,
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
We believe that you are in United Kingdom (your IP address appears to be xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). If you believe we have made a mistake, we apologize and ask that you please contact us at pandora-support@pandora.com
If you are a paid subscriber, please contact us at pandora-support@pandora.com and we will issue a pro-rated refund to the credit card you used to sign up. If you have been using Pandora, we will keep a record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting for you.
We will be notifying listeners as licensing agreements are established in individual countries. If you would like to be notified by email when Pandora is available in your country, please enter your email address below. The pace of global licensing is hard to predict, but we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our service everywhere.
We share your disappointment and greatly appreciate your understanding.
Sincerely,
Tim Westergren
Founder
----
This sucks as its one of the only places where we can listen to music at work and its really a sad day when its completely restricted.
Its a sad day, hopefully it will come back to the UK shores ... if only the UK based record industry would pull their finger out and realise that these types of ventures make people go out and buy music!!
Peace!
Friday, 11 January 2008
Died in a blogging accident
Can bloggers die blogging? I feeling its a ploy to see the power KXCD has over people!
I was pointed to the latest XKCD posting this morning and after searching google for the comment the results returned were quite high (because of people posting about XKCD) but also the posts were indexed by google very quickly ...
... so the experiment is, how quickly google will index this? and how many people will read it?
linkage to the comic
Will check in again at lunch time!
I was pointed to the latest XKCD posting this morning and after searching google for the comment the results returned were quite high (because of people posting about XKCD) but also the posts were indexed by google very quickly ...
... so the experiment is, how quickly google will index this? and how many people will read it?
linkage to the comic
Will check in again at lunch time!
Saturday, 6 October 2007
A week on, with a weekend to go ...
Yup, thats right, only a weekend to go before I can drink beer, but i'll get to that!
Its been an interesting week at work, everyone going a bit manic and everything needed to be done last week. Another bit which annoyed me was I went in early on Wednesday morning to do the final test release and then an hour later my client sent through their UAT results ... grrr!!
Ah well, thats life ...
On Sunday, Distribution Technology was ranked 40th in the Microsoft Tech Track 100. This is a big thing for my company and its a real achievement for all of us. Its a good time to be working for them and I'm really happy here, much better than my last place ... it really feels like family.
As for the beer, or lack of it ... the guys at work have come up with a cunning idea. Earlier in the summer I was said to be one of the better table football players we have in the dev department, but in the past week or so my game hasn't quite been at the top of its form. The guys think its due to the serious lack of beer in my system and my body is totally beer free and my game hasn't been great. So ... the idea is to see if when i start drinking beer again, the game ability goes back up to the same level.
However, this was potentially thrown out of the water when Russ and I won one of our dev play off games on thursday night and won all 3 of the games we played last night ... maybe I'll be even better when I have some nice cold Heiniken flowing through my body ;-)
Its been an interesting week at work, everyone going a bit manic and everything needed to be done last week. Another bit which annoyed me was I went in early on Wednesday morning to do the final test release and then an hour later my client sent through their UAT results ... grrr!!
Ah well, thats life ...
On Sunday, Distribution Technology was ranked 40th in the Microsoft Tech Track 100. This is a big thing for my company and its a real achievement for all of us. Its a good time to be working for them and I'm really happy here, much better than my last place ... it really feels like family.
As for the beer, or lack of it ... the guys at work have come up with a cunning idea. Earlier in the summer I was said to be one of the better table football players we have in the dev department, but in the past week or so my game hasn't quite been at the top of its form. The guys think its due to the serious lack of beer in my system and my body is totally beer free and my game hasn't been great. So ... the idea is to see if when i start drinking beer again, the game ability goes back up to the same level.
However, this was potentially thrown out of the water when Russ and I won one of our dev play off games on thursday night and won all 3 of the games we played last night ... maybe I'll be even better when I have some nice cold Heiniken flowing through my body ;-)
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