“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” — Charles De Gaulle
A Bit of Geekishness
First, here are some statistics from my email spam catcher, SpamSieve, for the month of March:
Filtered Mail
- 1,040 Good Messages
- 14,076 Spam Messages (93%)
- 438 Spam Messages Per Day
SpamSieve Accuracy
- 2 False Positives
- 61 False Negatives (97%)
- 99.6% Correct
To be honest, I administer two domains that get mail and I review all the misaddressed mail. Unfortunately, spammers will take a domain, like majormike.net and add a bunch of fake names in the hope that they will get lucky and come up with a real address. This tends to proliferate the number of bogus messages I have to review. But you can be sure I won’t let bzjz@majormike.net pass.
Second, I just converted the underlying software that supports this site to the latest version: WordPress 2.5. Now aren’t you impressed? I has a few glitches, but it looks like a good product.
Troubling News
AP March 11, 2008.
25% of Young Women Infected: Shocking results from a recent study by the Center for Disease Control show that one out of every four girls ages 14-19 has an STD. That translates into approximately 3 million infected girls – about 40% of all girls who admit to having had sex. The HPV virus was the most common infection.
And you thought pregnancy was the worst thing that could happen with casual sex. Folks, HPV is incurable and is a primary cause of uterine cancer.
Juan and Ahmal
A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named “Ahmal.” The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him “Juan.” Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, “They’re twins! If you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Ahmal.”
Direction in Life, Politics, and Whatever
“If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.” — Professor Irwin Corey