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Back from Africa. Feeling fitter, somewhat lighter headed. Caught up in Dmitry-saving, Co-located server mechanics, and reignited local friend-making.

But first, as ever: it's the Call of the Know!

I think I'd be more annoyed about being 7,000 miles away if it wasn't for Cook'd and Bomb'd's rip of the new Brass Eye

Her Brittanic Majesty's Secretary of State Requests And Requires that you give Paul Ford a temporary home.

How long has it been since I was supposed to improve my Crash Into My House Flash file?

Got a UNIX system? Receiving dozens of SirCam e-mails? Join in the fun, and decode those private documents with these commands:

In mutt, select the second attachment, then hit pipe (|), and enter:
dd bs=512 skip=268 > ~/tmp/filenamehere.ext

You might need to use skip=280 if that doesn't work. More suggestions in this USENET posting by Ronan Keryell.

They didn't Free Dimitry. Which is, horribly, a slight relief for me, because I have a column about the situation coming out on Sunday.

Another EFF Project, hosted at Harvard Law school: Chilling Effects Clearing House:

We will be gathering cease and desist notices sent to Internet users, and will analyze those letters in issue-spotting FAQs (informal memos) to be posted on the site.

I have a very crude spam filter: I send anything that isn't from a known mailing list, and doesn't have my name in the From: header, into a suspected spam mailbox which I rarely visit. This works very well, except for mailing lists that I've forgotten to add to the master list. I've just realised that including a

  :0:
  * ^Precedence:.*bulk
  misclist.mbx/
  

entry into my procmailrc should take care of that. It works because spam is the only bulk mail that doesn't admit that it is bulkmail. D'oh!