This piece of writing that came across my desk made me laugh really hard today:
Cities are the centers of ecomoy developement, the centers of power, water and fossile fuel consumption and the centers of pollutant producing. The atmospheric pollution in cities is maily from vehicle dispersion, industrial consuming, energy producing and resident-consuming chocalate.
I think the author means charcoal, as in residential heating. 😉
Here’s a great opinion piece from the blog of my DNS provider entitled: Want to reduce email spam to your mail server? Stop using backup spooling.
It is with regret that we have come to the following conclusion, but here it is: Offsite backup SMTP spoolers and backup mail exchangers have become worse than useless.
The problem is spam and the software that delivers it exploiting the weak authentication schemes inherent in the SMTP protocol itself. It used to be an annoyance, then it became a concern, it is now an epidemic and has resulted in the death of the offsite backup MX handler.
The author then goes on to explain what the problem is and why you won’t really miss your backup spooling. It’s a very interesting point of view (in a good way) that’s worth considering.
We felt an earthquake in Beijing today at approximately 03:57:30 UTC 4 July 2006. The building, my desk, and I went back and forth for about one second. Very weird feeling. It was my first one, I think.
Xie Lei, at work, was scared because she remembers the earthquake that hit Beijing in 1976. I’ll have to read up on that one, but I seem to remember reading that the pagoda at Bei Hai park was partially destroyed in an earthquake then.
Update: From the news I’ve learned that today’s earthquake was magnitude 5.1.