response 502 of 560:

Dec 9 02:25 UTC 2003

Burning?

response 504 of 560:

Dec 9 04:13 UTC 2003

I use spamprobe, a bayesian spam analysis engine which works with
procmail.  Basically, you train it to distinguish between ham and spam
by feeding a list of known spam and another list of known good mail.

Check out http://spamprobe.sourceforge.net/ for more details.

response 506 of 560:

Dec 9 15:39 UTC 2003

Procmail can search message bodies for strings, so if you're sure
that you want to filter all html messages, searching for html tags
should do it.  (I personally wouldn't want to do that.  Most, but
not all, of the html messages I get are spam.)

response 508 of 560:

Dec 9 16:09 UTC 2003

That's harder to filter for with procmail.

response 510 of 560:

Dec 9 21:52 UTC 2003

I am happy to be sneezing and blowing my nose a bit instead of just coughing
my head off, because that means I can do chemotherapy tomorrow instead of
postponing it another two days.  The nurse suggested that I wash my hands
frequently after blowing my nose but agreed that would be difficult to do with
an IV in one hand.  You are not supposed to get them wet.  Also I would need
to drag the pump along with me to the bathroom even to wash one hand.  

response 512 of 560:

Dec 9 22:03 UTC 2003

Does that sterilize your hands?  

response 514 of 560:

Dec 10 01:13 UTC 2003

I could also try 70% alcohol, which is less stinky than hand lotions.

The alarm clock I had set for 7 went off at 7.  pm not am.  It lost half an
hour in 1 hour so Jim will haul himself out of the tub and find me the other
one.  He feels crummy again, worse than me.  Maybe he should take some
vincristine.  

The author has just rounded Cape Horn in freezing rain, sleet, hail and ice
with a wind from the east and a bad tooth infection and no place to stay out
of the wet except a low forecastle which they cannot even sit up in, with the
ventilation hole plugged to keep out the wet and bad air not helped by the
dim lamp burning in it.  And nothing to eat but corned beef and ship's biscuit
and two quarts of tea every day.  The cook is apparently there only to feed
the officers chicken pie and pancakes and coffee.  Someone snuck the author
some boiled rice because he could not open his mouth enough for the biscuits.
I have to come up with something semi-appetizing for supper, maybe microwaved
potatoes.  There is a chapter later on curing scurvy with the juice of raw
potatoes and onions.  I have orange juice.  I have it easy.  

In order to relieve the monotony of four hours watch every night, the author
recites to himself assorted poetry, the names of all the presidents, and the
numbers in Hawaiian, which he taught himself from Hawaiian sailors in
California.  Also Erlkonig (in German).  When I am trying to ignore the
dentist drill, I also recite to myself German poetry and Turkish and Albanian
numbers.  I should try this during the next IV insertion.  bir iki uc dort
bes alti yedi sekiz dokuz on.  nje dy tre katr pes (forgot six) shtate tete
nende dhjet.  Freut euch des Lebens.

response 516 of 560:

Dec 10 04:45 UTC 2003

Breadboarded up my first microphone attempt this evening... Panasonic capsule,
phantom powered via some fun circuitry found on the Web.  After several
missing wires were finally added, it worked!  Now I need a *#$& box from the
storage locker to try the more advanced hookup... time to go to bed.

response 518 of 560:

Dec 10 15:20 UTC 2003

I'm happy because I got Christmas cards done and 15 loaves of pumpkin bread
baked.

response 520 of 560:

Dec 10 23:34 UTC 2003

Well damn.  A day of work later, and I've made two microphones.  Pretty much
exactly as I'd planned.  What went wrong, I wonder?  They even work correctly.

response 522 of 560:

Dec 11 14:40 UTC 2003

Link doesn't seem to work. :(

response 524 of 560:

Dec 11 15:24 UTC 2003

Scott,  the latest issue of QST MAgazine (a ham radio magazine) has some
plans and ideas about rolling your own condenser mics.