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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 to the public [...]

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 [...]