As a first test of my equipment for Kilimanjaro, Udo and I went on a three-day hike that included Glittertind (2464 m) and Galdhøppigen (2469 m). Not very high up, no problems at all with oxygen 😉 But a nice trip, and except for the day we were going to go up Glittertind, the weather was fantastic. We ended up walking around Glittertind, and only went to the Galdhøppigen summit the day after. Equipment test shows: I need better sunscreen 🙂
Hokus Pokus, a blank 7 (about VIII- to VIII accoridng to UIAA). My second one after Hekseskudd, a pretty short route with a tricky start, a rather painful mid-section (really sharp edges) and a lot of moving back and forth.
Now I need to find me an easy 7+, one that mostly requires a high tolerance for pain and a good sense of balance.
131 hours without a spam. That’s 4.5 days – pretty good. As I wrote earlier, I’ve been training my filters really well, and my spam quota is currently down to 1 spam in 98 messages.
What’s yours?
I went shopping. Our local store had a deal on ropes, and I’m tired of having to borrow a rope – it’s time I buy my own.
While there, I went into a spree. I’ve always liked Salewa’s coloured clamps, beecause looking for the number on one while standing on a small crack with just one foot isn’t something I enjoy much. So these are going to be my new friends.
Also, I got a Arcteryx Bora 60 on sale. It’s not the latest model, so I guess that’s why I got it at half price. And it fits me like… If I was to ever have an exoskeleton fitted, this is how it should fit. I’m just 1.70, and used to things being a bit too big for me – this backpack came in three sizes, and it fits me without any adjustments needed. In fact, it’s less adjustable than my tattered old one, because they have three sizes. Love it. I can’t wait for the first trip out.
The only negative point about the shopping trip was that I couldn’t take the shoes home I’d picked for myself a few weeks ago – they were out in my size, and they have to be ordered. I’m hoping they’ll come in time for me to walk them in before my first trial walk. Jotunheimen’s mountains will be the first test of my equipment for Kilimanjaro.
If you have an intelligent spam filter like the one built into Thunderbird or Spam Assassin, you need to train it right.
The most common problem I’ve seen is taht people only tell the spam filter about their spam, but not about the good mails (the ‘ham’). In Mozilla, you do this by selecting all the good emails and saying “Mark this Message as Not Junk”. This is important, nay, vital information for the filter.
I did this with Spam Assassin a while back, and any time I get a spam now, I feed it back into the filter. The results are pretty impressive: My spam filter now catches 99.2% of all the spam. I’m tracking this and making a diagram from it. You can see the improvement over the untrained filter I had two months ago.
That’s pretty darn good. I get in excess of 100 spams a day, which isn’t as much as some of my friends get, but still bad enough.
I haven’t been updating in a while, as you may have noticed. Mood swings. Stuff happening. All the explanations you read everywhere else about why people don’t update, and then some.
I’ll try to just post a few bits again, sporadically. To get things going.
Plus, I decided to switch back to English. It’s the only language I speak these days, I might as well try to write in it.
Was IMAP angeht, bin ich ja immer skeptisch. Aber bei web.de scheint das gut zu klappen. Habe eben ein HOWTO geschrieben für Einrichten von web.de Accounts in Thunderbird (mit IMAP). Auch wenn es das sicher schon irgendwo geben wird…
Privat benutze ich übrigens dann doch weder IMAP noch web.de noch einen deutschen Thunderbird. Englischer Thunderbird und mein eigener POP3 Server. Ein sinniger IMAP-Server (mit maildirs) wäre allerdings mal ein Projekt.
Gestern habe ich eine Statistik gelesen. Die Briten, die ja gern nach dem Tod ihr Vermögen ihren Katzen vermachen, spenden im Jahr:
Warum Katzen, Hunde und Esel? Die sind wirklich nicht vom Aussterben bedroht. Das Ziel der Spenden scheint nicht der Schutz der Arten zu sein, sondern das würdig Leben von Ex-Haustieren. Während in Afrika die letzten ihrere Art sterben, und Gelder für die REttung fehlen, werden in Europa Haustiere mit Millionenspenden verhätschelt. Klasse.
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Für alle, die sehen wollen woran ich arbeite, und warum ich momentan kaum etwas schreibe.
Tumiki Fighters. Ein 2D Shooter mit 3D Objekten. Man steuert ein Flugzeug aus Bauklötzen, schiess auf Gegner aus Bauklötzen, und wenn man sie abschießt, kann man sie an das eigene Flugzeug dranstecken, um ein größeres zu bekommen. Weird.
Das Spiel ist in D geschrieben. Eine Art C++ Derivat, dass ein wenig wie Java aussieht. Cool, was man damit machen kann.
