- Here in MN, the state’s parties caucus tonight, and the article includes links to help you find where your precinct (or larger divsion) caucus is. I’m trying to decide if I’m going to attend at all. If I do, it’ll probably be the Minnesota Independence Party caucus, but I suspect that I’m going to stay home this evening. You’re welcome to remind me of my apathy come November when I gripe about having to vote for the lesser of two evils.
- Transit talks stall with no word of progress, but no word of a strike either. At least they’re not going out on strike today, but if you rely on the bus, it would probably be a good idea to double-check whether they’re going to be running tomorrow. Me, I’ve got a tentative lunch-date for Thursday that would require having the buses running, but I’ll worry about that later in the week. As for comparisons to the strike in 1995, I don’t know. I remember there was a strike, but that’s about it. I’m not even sure if I was in town or living in California when it happened, but if I was in Minneapolis I would have been working in Eden Prairie and driving to work every day. About the only time I rode the bus back then was heading to a bar in the evening so I wouldn’t have to worry about getting my car home afterwards. [press-patch]
- You could Buy Offline, Get Spammed Online if you shop at a business that practices email-append, which is buying lists of email addresses from spammers and then tries to match them up with existing customer lists. Of course there’s no guarantee that they’ll actually get the right person, especially if you’ve got a common name, and lots of customers don’t like it, but anything to make a buck, right? If you pay cash and don’t give them your name at all, they have a lot harder time trying to market to you.
- Says here that OpenBSD’s spamd now has support for Greylisting, which sounds to me like a pretty good idea for fighting spam, especially as it costs spammers more resources if they're going to get their spam through (so it can be filtered by SpamAssassin), and actually saves resources on the receiver’s end. [openbsd]
- Here’s a handy checklist on how to land a 747, just in case you ever need to. Heck, I’ve been in three 747s in my life, and one never left the ground. I think instructions for an A320 would probably be a lot more useful for me, since that what Northwest flies to most of the places I end up going, but I think step one is pretty universal:
Get on the radio, and tell whoever’s listening that you have a problem and don’t know exactly what to do.
[holy schmoly]