mardi 25 février 2003

Well done, bruv'! While I spend a large part of my waking life editing news out of Africa, brother Alex's feet are just itching to stalk off into the bush again! Once a nightmare of red tape, partnership issues and the vagaries of a relatively new Zambian government forever in turmoil let him. Still, it's some consolation, I hope, to keep Afrikeye going in the meantime! D'you still mind having to do it all over again after last year's fearful data loss, Alex? No Jaguars on that continent. But you're looking good both in Chimera (soon to change name) and Safari. You haven't, ahem, reconsidered giving that tail of yours a switch? I know: "Spare me the platform war." Quite. There are more serious ones to fret about nowadays. 9:33:53 PM  link   your views? [] Canned meat in excess With all the time it took to set up spam filters in Eudora, it came as a relief today to see that a record 47 unsolicited offerings were shunted straight to the trash, only one of which should not have gone there. But this left me wondering whatever happened to the concern dating back almost a year: that Apple's own Mail app was filtering spam without our knowledge. All in the best interest of the client, no doubt! ;) Mail's come a long way since then, its junk filter actually seems to work after some months! But then nobody's yet started using that address to offer me sex with a goat! The University of California even offers a layman's guide to setting up this "heuristic" feature. How I like things explained in pictures! 8:55:48 PM  link   your views? [] 'Don't mention the war!' "Austria was Hungary, Very Very Hungary, Ate a bit of Turkey, Dipped in Greece. Long-legged Italy, kicked poor Sicily, Into the Mediterranean Sea." I don't know why that classroom ditty from another era leapt into mind this morning, but it came back when I learned that Turkey had been bribed off the fence. Money. As ever. Though Austria's pretty quiet these days. I could swear I heard a BBC person in Ankara say that one factor under consideration by Turkish politicians was how much VAT on commodities US troops might have to pay if and when they turn up. 10:58:33 AM  link   your views? []

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