a way to nuke spam e-mails

Caught a rec from a reader on Facebook, and it seems to be a good one. MailWasher—a freeware. It parks itself like a vulture on the phone-wire, so to speak, and picks off what you designate as bad sources. It can even (read the tips they provide) keep you from...

Tax-time

That annual misery in which on the honor system and backed by penal code, Americans devote 4 otherwise productive weeks to trying to remember their highschool math, trying to figure who Fred G Wayne is and why you wrote him a check for 32.34 and called it deductible,...

Allergies. Glug.

I took a nap after supper last night (meatloaf: I achieved my mum’s recipe, perfectly)—and slept from about 5:30 to 9:00 then got out of the chair and went to bed, and slept until 6:30 this morning, took the trash to the curb, went back to bed and slept...

We have the word on baby fishes.

Right now the weather is in a pattern of 50 degree days and 30 degree nights, which averages (given the warmth the pumps provide) about 48 degrees for the pond, of course a little cooler near the absolute surface. I got hold of the pond store, and they will begin...

Skype. Microsoft. Both on my no-no list.

I have never dealt with anything as needlessly complex as a Microsoft account. They screwed it a decade ago, and I finally, during a 2-hour battle with passwords, phone calls, entries, re-entries, password changes and downloads, have a working copy of Skype. I am...

Welcome to our several new members.

Those of you still awaiting approval, remember it won’t happen until you e-mail me (addy is in the obvious tab in the header) and tell me something—anything—proving you’re not another incarnation of ‘isellweirdpills.com’ Welcome...

The pond is filling…

We took the day and kept at it, arranging rock, washing rock, scooping and pumping muck, and getting the pond about as clear as a 5000 gallon hole in the ground surrounded by trees, plants, and dirt can be. I decided to revert to automation, in this instance, and...