Planet feeds

I have noticed something in the past year.  All of the HP business desktops that my clients have purchased in the past year have not come with recovery CDs/DVDs nor did they come with the Windows CDs/DVDs either.  Instead, they want you to use their utility to make a braindead recovery utility disc(s) that flatlines the machine and repartitions it the way it has been scripted to do so, regardless of what partition(s) might be there that don’t belong to Vista.

Whenever my clients complain that they are getting spam, I always ask them if they believe their penis size is too small (if they’re a female) or if they don’t like how small their boobs are (if they’re a male)…  That always gets a chuckle out of them.  But seriously, we use DSPAM (http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com) to filter e-mail, and once it’s fully trained (when it receives 2500 legitimate e-mails) we get very high accuracy.  Even now, for a newly opened e-mail account that still has 2461 messages to train yet, I’m already seeing more than 82% overall accuracy.

On Saturday night, we went to see the Live Nation Pink Floyd Laser show at the House of Blues in Chicago.  We had purchased tickets over a month ago, and I was rather looking forward to it.  Contrary to our original plans to show up early, we ended up instead arriving just a few minutes before the show (thank you, lovely Chicago traffic…).  I do not like events where I have to literally throw what little weight I have around in order to squeeze in.  My S.O.