Counting down
I've been reasonably quite during the last few days, since I'm counting down until next Wednesday, when my back surgery is planned. I'm expected to check in on Tuesday, so the procedure will be Wednesday early morning. The prospect of leaving home, my wife and three kids for a week isn't exactly appealing, especially for them staying home and having a very busy week. I stopped googling around for surgery reports and such since these things are scarily detailed. Typically, I'm not afraid of undergoing surgical procedures: my mom and dad both have worked in or around healthcare for their entire professional life, and myself, I have been wondering whether healthcare isn't more interesting than IT for as long as I work.
In the mean time, I've been trying to fight spam by installing SpamAssassin on cocoondev. I learned much more about the relationship between qmail, procmail and SpamAssassin than I cared to know. If you happen to venture into this too, make sure the user .procmailrc is only user-writeable since procmail otherwise refuses to work (and does so very silently - make sure you switch on logging in procmail, or tail -f your mail daemon log). Apart from that, I experienced the joy of diving into Perl to correct what the automated config/build had been doing wrong. Always very unearthly stuff compared with Ant's XML build files :-)

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