Life on MarsConfessions of a mangalavid junkie.Jimmy Eat World- April 30, 2008 After a weekend in New York City, Simon and Katia took a round-about way home to Providence through Albany to come see us and spend the night. Simon, Katia and I went to the Jimmy Eat World and Paramore show at the Albany Armory, and had a great time (despite the dismal weather). It turned out to be the opposite of what happened last time, with Paramore actually opening for Jimmy Eat World (I had been under the impression it was going to be the other way around, not knowing much at all about...http://kasei.us/archives/2008/04/29/jimmyeatworld Parking in Troy- April 18, 2008 I'm still frustrated over an issue I ran into last week with Troy's parking situation. I generally park on a side street right next to my apartment. This works out really well because there's much less traffic, usually more parking space, and no scheduled street cleaning (meaning I don't have to wake up early on Friday morning to move my car). Unfortunately, I only thought there was no street cleaning. It turns out that once a year in the Spring the side streets of Troy are cleaned to remove...http://kasei.us/archives/2008/04/18/parkingintroy Spam- April 3, 2008 After years of using the wonderful SpamSieve, I turned server-side spam filtering back on one year ago. The amount of spam had grown so large that even though SpamSieve was catching 99.8% of it, the time to download and filter it all on my laptop had become impractical (especially since I was often getting online through GPRS via my phone). I keep the filtering threshold pretty high on the server-side and still rely on SpamSieve to sort out the more questionable stuff, but I thought it would...http://kasei.us/archives/2008/04/03/spam |