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Monthly Archive January, 2005

Archivemail

20 Jan, 2005

I decided to use to use an excellent tool called Archivemail for two purposes: 1. To archive mail (duh!) and 2. to delete old mail such as mailing lists (already mirrored everywhere on the web) and spam.
This short script is run everyday at 17:00 by cron:

#!/bin/sh
# script called from cron to archive my mail
# based [...]

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Mutt loving

18 Jan, 2005

One of my main gripes with Mutt was how cumbersome it was to manage mailing lists. Every time I subscribed to a new mailing list I had to A. add a new line to .procmailrc for filtering, B. create a new maildir and C. add the mailing list and mailbox to lists and mailboxes in [...]

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Adaptation and Dragons Forever

16 Jan, 2005

Adaptation (great acting and superb screenplay) and Dragons Forever (Jackie Chan, dubbed!) this weekend.

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Thief of Time

13 Jan, 2005

Finished reading Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett. The 26th Discworld book, starring Death, Susan, the Monks of History and Lu Tze the sweeper and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. As always with the Discworld books, never a dull moment!

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Free Games

11 Jan, 2005

Nice article about free games. This could very well be one of the next big things in Free Software. So far there are quite a few good free 3D engines, and quite a few good games.
I’m still hoping for someone to stand up and starting development of the proverbial good game engine(not only 3D, but [...]

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Go

Found my Goban while cleaning and decided to learn the game and actually start playing. Some interesting reading on the subject:

The Way to Go
Good tutorial book with examples and problem solving.
The Interactive way to Go
Interactive examples (requires Java!)
Go: Life Itself
Interesting reading, more about the philosophical aspects.
The Go Club
Great article about a go club (and [...]

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Shadow of a Doubt and Bloody Sunday

Watched Shadow of a Doubt and Bloody Sunday (should have watched this one with subtitles).

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