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Today I trained Bogofilter on 85,000 spams (and an equally large number of normal messages).
A little playing with the resulting database reveals that my largest spam giveaway words are (not counting ‘header’ words, such as spamtrap addresses, and words added by previous Spam-Assassin rewriting):

devnull
dotted-decimal
Impotence
Enlargement
zhtclxqx
Medications
Phentermine
remove.html
remove.php
Soma
eGroups
Guaranteed!
out.html
windows-1251
optout.html
Citrate
Sildenafil
Ultram
erections
Adipex

To get into the Top 10 list of the Television Sets per Population, your country needs to have over 635 televisions per 1000 people.
To make it to the top of the list, you need to have over 1.2 televisions per person, so that you can displace Christmas Island!

Communications operator: “Police Can I help you?”
Caller: “Yeah this is… I’ve been tired, stopped policeman, rung you up… I beat-up one of your coppers last year and I can’t get health insurance because of it. Now I know it’s over a year and I’ve been very polite and I’ve tried to ring the court …I’ve… [...]

Joel’s Book of the Month this month is Robert Glass’s Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. This has been on my To Buy list for a while, as I keep stumbling across articles by Robert Glass that I like.
The book lists 55 Facts, all seemingly backed up by references. I really wish Amazon had “search [...]

My homepage has been essentially the same since I registered TMtm in 1996. Every 6 months or so I’d check to ensure all the links still worked, remove those that had vanished, fix those that had moved, and add a few new ones. Then I’d forget all about it again for another 6 months.
Although it [...]

I arrived back from Glasgow last night to discover that the Information Commissioner’s Office had finally gotten around to processing the two Request for Assessments that I had made.
The scariest part of the responses were the reference numbers given. Assuming these go up in simple increments of 1, then there were almost 700 RFAs made [...]

Jim Weirich enthuses about deleting code.
I also love deleting code. In the past month I’ve managed to remove almost 33% of the code from a major work project. It’s been slowly growing in size for over a year, and I’ve managed to get it back to the level it was at in February; although it [...]

I also have spent the last 36 hours paying the price for that incident where we decided that the solution was to install an AUTOLOAD into the caller’s namespace…
Today I can at least move. I can’t see this large box of tissues lasting more than a day or so though…