Everyone be sure to remember to watch or tivo =http://www.scifi.com/farscapeFarscape: The Peacekeeper Wars[/url] tonight and tomorrow. If you haven’t seen the rest of the series, you should record the miniseries and rent or buy all the DVDs and watch them first.
That is all.
This morning, I went on my =http://www.santabarbarabiketour.comMS bikeride[/url]. I didn’t raise as much as I would have liked for it, but I guess anything is better than nothing. The ride itself was a lot of fun. I was a little worried about it beforehand, as I haven’t been riding as much as I should, and hadn’t ever been on a ride that long (30 miles) before. As it turns out, I shouldn’t have been worried at all. I had no problem with it, though some of the hills were pretty tough, and my rear wheel was close to flat for the first half of it. I checked them last night, and I really thought it looked fine. I thnk the most satisfying part of it was that some hills that would have given me real trouble a month ago were no problem at all. That felt really good.
=http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/2004/10/16/523/This picture[/url] made the whole thing worth it.
It’s gotta suck to get brought into a game in the bottom of tenth inning, and give up the series-ending homerun on your first pitch.
Unfortunately, barring a miracle from the Dodgers, it looks like I won’t be going to any World Series games this year.
Vice President Dick Cheney recommends you go read this site: factcheck.com
full textWell, the reason they keep mentioning Halliburton is because they’re trying to throw up a smokescreen. They know the charges are false.
They know that if you go, for example, to factcheck.com (sic), an independent Web site sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, you can get the specific details with respect to Halliburton.
[Note: He really meant you should go to factcheck.org. It’s still funny.]
The gallery is back up, thanks to PictPress. PictPress is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to set up a reasonable looking gallery. There are some things I’m going to have to tweak about it, but it certainly made it simple to get it going.
Now, I just have to start using my camera again, so I can get more pictures up there.
I only have one thing to say about it right now: =http://www.youforgotpoland.comYou forgot Poland[/url].
This website has been jumping all over the internet lately. I switched from my first hosting to 1and1, but that wasn’t good enough. So I got a reseller account with ServerCove, but I kept bugging them about things enough that they convinced me to be a beta tester for their new VPS service, =http://www.rapidvps.comRapidVPS[/url]. So now I have full access to the machine that’s running my website. It took a little work to get it set up, but so far it seems very nice. I get less bandwidth than with the reseller account (but still far more than I need), and more disk space. It’s also costing me less.
Hopefully, things will work out smoothly.
Last night, I finished making my Thanksgiving plans. As usual, I’m going to Louisville. Apparently, not having learned my lesson from =http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/2002/12/05/23/updatestwo years ago[/url], here’s my itinerary for this year:
Yeah, that’s correct. I’m flying from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles to Detroit to New York. Then, I’m driving with my parents to Pittsburgh, and then with my brother to Louisville. At least I’ll get to sleep Wednesday night so I’ll be somewhat rested for Thanksgiving. Then my flight back is right out of Louisville, to Detroit, then LA, then Santa Barbara.
What was I thinking?
I’ve been looking for a way to get all my old e-mail into gMail for a while now. I tried out =http://www.marklyon.org/gmailGML[/url] and gExodus, but neither of them worked quite right for me. I couldn’t get GML to run (though I didn’t try all that hard), and gExodus would keep aborting after sending the first 17 messages. I also tried using =http://www.aaltonen.us/archive/2004/04/26/tip-batch-forward-emailpine[/url] to forward it, but that didn’t work right either.
So, I finally gave up, and did it myself. It was surprisingly easy, and I should have just done it this way in the first place. First, I created a procmailrc file that looked like this:
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/local/bin/
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log-forward
#Get the subject
#Discard some dangerous special chars + any leading and trailing blanks
SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject:
| sed -e ‘s/[;`]/ /g’
| expand | sed -e ‘s/^[ ]*//g’ -e ‘s/[ ]*$//g’`
# SPAM STUFF
:0fw
|/usr/bin/spamassassin -c /usr/share/spamassassin -p $HOME/.spamassassin/user_prefs
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
/dev/null
:0fw
|formail -I”Subject: [old] $SUBJECT”
:0
![my username]@gmail.com
Then, I just ran: cat old_archive | formail -Y -s procmail procmailrc. That’s it. formail splits the mbox file, and runs each one through procmail, which adds [old] to the subject, and forwards it along to gMail. Nice and simple. It even runs all my old stuff through my current spam filter, which catches a lot of stuff that was still lying around.
Updates: It didn’t work quite right the first time. It was merging some messages together, and doing weird stuff. The -Y option to formail fixes that, at least with my mbox file. Also, it goes MUCH faster if I disable the spamassassin stuff, so that’s what I’m doing the second time around. I’ll let Google catch the spam for me.
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