It has been observed by many people that spam levels have shot up tremendously in the last half year. Largely due to bot-nets of cracked Windows PCs, which tend to make the older spam-fighting mechanisms like server blacklists ineffective. And largely image-based spam defeats heuristic analyzers like Bayesian filters. Somehow even email addresses that I…

I just read (wasting time on Wikipedia again…) about a high-IQ society (along the lines of Mensa) named the Giga Society. Their membership is restricted to the top 99.9999999th percentile of IQ. One person in a billion can qualify. They have six members, which is statistically about all you would expect there to be on…

Yes, indeed, it has happened. My brother has successfully passed on his genes to a new generation. Sometime past midnight on Wednesday morning, Eliza Jane took human form and came to live among us.

Well, it seems my curse is not so powerful as I imagined. Marcos at work told me he has often had great luck getting tickets to sold-out shows on the day of the show. Apparently it’s all those blocks of great seats, reserved for various special groups (eg, American Express card-holders). On the day of…

Continuing the story of the chipmunks in my attic…