The BBC are on the ball: they have RSS feeds for all their main news pages. Good to see RSS in a place other than weblogs.

This is the kind of thing that RSS should really excell at; rather than being obliged to visit a few news sites, I can just check the headlines in my RSS reader (liferea if you are curious) and check out the ones that are of interest.

I just had a clean up of my room. Well, okay, more of a push things around so they look a little neater type affair, but still. The upshot of it all is that I am now using a couple of hard-disks as bookends.

Does that make me a little bit more geek-like?

My mail server appears to be running solidly now and so has made the trip from under my desk to in the wardrobe under the washing basket. In addition as the fetchmail/exim/procmail/imapd combo it was running before it is now running SpamAssassin.

However, SpamAssassin has brought up one of the problems with running Debian/Stable: it may be very stable, but it is also rather old. The version of SpamAssassin is way out of date. So is the version of exim. This is kind of annoying since spammers have advanced beyond what version very-old can provide. Also there have been some nice patches integrated into exim that provide good hooks for exim into SpamAssassin and virus scanners, two useful tools.

This summer, if all goes well, I’ll be taking a placement with HP Labs, Bristol. I only have a mile-high overview of what I’ll be up to, but it should be interesting indeed. As you may guess, I’m pretty happy about this!

Now I’m going to have a beer to celebrate =D

I decided to have a quick mess around with the layout of the site. I’m not sure whether or not I’ll stick with this design, time will tell =)

It is a fixed width rather than fluid desgin. The last design was fluid, so I thought I’d try something different. There has alway been debate as to which is “better”; fixed-width or fluid. For a long time I’ve generally thought that fluid was best. However, seeing some of the fixed width designs that have been doing the rounds recently gave me some impetus to have a go at this fixed-width lark.