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{ Monthly Archives } September 2008

More non-spam

The false pos­it­ive prob­lem with Gmail con­tin­ues, in the last few days the fol­low­ing have wrongly gone into the spam bucket noti­fic­a­tion of my bank state­ment (never used to go into spam, so this is a new prob­lem) noti­fic­a­tions about my toddler’s music class my son’s class list Bob Park’s “What’s New” news­let­ter a reply to email […]

Gmail and Spam

When I’m trav­el­ling I run my per­sonal email through my Gmail account, so I have a bet­ter web browser inter­face than the one my ISP provides. Lots of people told me about how good the spam fil­ter is; I tend to find too many false pos­it­ives (admit­tedly, most from mail­ing list sub­scrip­tions) so I check […]

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Mountain Photos

On the way to Bal­is­age in Mon­tréal, the plane flew very low for the first part of the trip, about 19 000 feet (about 5800 m), to escape the smoke from fires in the Okanagan. Unusu­ally for me, I was in the win­dow seat and decided to take some pho­tos of Mount Baker and the […]

WordPress and Atom

On my craft­ing blog I use the Tarski theme, and that used to give you the choice between Atom and RSS for the feeds. Then they took it out, say­ing that Word­Press itself gives you the choice. Well, maybe it does (or maybe it did), but nowhere in the options for 2.6.1 that I could […]