Okay, so the new desktop image. It’s already provoked a few questions and it’s only been on the site a couple of hours, so here is an explaination.

There’s an indie club night I go to where they take pictures and stick them up on their website. We take a look through the pictures every so often. This is one picture that reflects the general quirky-yet-cool atmosphere they have at the night. I just have the picture there because it reminds me of the cool times I had at the place; not as some people have posited that I have some claim on the girl: she’s just a random.

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 The version of SpamAssassin is way out of date.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