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Gmail

This is for all of the people who called, emailed and messaged me about my Gmail screenshot.

* You are eligible for two certificates if you recognized SquirrelMail and still believed.
* Journalists and other press/media vultures are not eligible. You're not worthy.

Seriously… It's been a long time since I've had this much fun. Thanks!

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Gmail

Until about 30 minutes ago, I though that Gmail was one of the best April's fool ever. I was actually somewhat disappointed when I received an invitation for the service.

I tried it. It was quite unimpressive. There's really nothing there I haven't seen before.

Here's a screenshot:

Although I saw nothing in the TOS against it, I might get kicked out of the beta program for posting this.

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The Pulse

The pulse is now also featured in the Javalobby Newsletter. The first installment was just published. Thanks to Rick & Elizabeth for all the hard work.

RBL Update

As previously mentioned, I've been experimenting with various RBL configurations. Here are my current sendmail 8.x settings:

FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dun.dnsrbl.net')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `spam.dnsrbl.net')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.visi.com')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `combined.njabl.org')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl.spamhaus.org')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org')dnl
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net')dnl


So far, so good.

java.net Update

Our project was finally approved last Friday. Russ and I are still working some of the details out. No public announcement, yet. Stay tuned.

Fire Sale

The next sponsor will not kick in for another couple weeks or so. If you're interested in advertising on this blog (and linkblog) at a discounted rate, let me know. First come, first serve.

The last sponsor, ReportMill Software has been experiencing a tremendous website traffic increase since advertising on my blog. Thanks!

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

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Share It!

Diego is making a foray into P2P with clevercactus share. Very cool stuff.

Have a look for yourself:

As Diego put it, who said Swing can't look good?

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Superheroes

Diego and Chris are listing their favorite superheroes. Can you name mine?

Here are some hints:

• “My friends call me GL.” — Hal Jordan
• “Cyclops is my brother.” — Alex Summers
• “My Sensei is not Mr. Miyagi.” — Val Armorr
• “I am an X-Men.” — Kurt Wagner

Bonus points if you can determine my favorite out of the four. Hint: “Lorna is the love of my life.”

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java.not

Russ and I started a project on java.net a week ago. We're still waiting for approval. How long does it take? It's not like they are swarming with activity over there.

Diego was telling me how he dislikes java.net because most of the projects are dead or undocumented. I'm starting to understand why that is.

Another bright example of Sun's commitment to the Java community, start strong, land flat.

RBL

I'm starting to experiment with Realtime Blackhole Lists to try to deal with the deluge of spam processed by my mail server on a daily basis. Here's my current sendmail 8.x RBL configuration:

FEATURE(`delay_checks', `friend')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl.spamhaus.org')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dun.dnsrbl.net')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`spam.dnsrbl.net')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.visi.com')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.njabl.org')dnl

I got some of the hosts from my friend John, as well as from Jeff Makey's Fighting Spam.

Mein Google TagLib

The Google TagLib is going to be included with this book. Matthew will be getting copies of the book when released. My German is too rusty.

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No Man's Land I just walked in living room while the telly was on. No Man's Land is playing on SHO. It just hit me. The Fast and The Furious was nothing more than an modern copycat. Cute, blond, undercover cop tries to infiltrate car ring run by a charismatic leader and falls in love with the sister. Cool cars too. [@694]
Sun != Java Rick pointed out to me that IBM's Bob Stutor was quoted as saying: “So, fundamentally, it is a mistake thinking that Sun equals Java, Java equals Sun”. Where have I heard this before? Don't Close this Window! I can't stop myself. I tried, but not matter what, I always close opened windows/tabs. It really doesn't help that I am also a shortcut freak. I don't even think about it, I just do it. Maybe it comes from years of using Macs, pre-OS X. Having multiple applications opened at once wasn't such a good idea at the time. It is really unproductive.