I have a sort of internal blog, I send myself email, and then use Pine’s selection features to zoom in on all the mail from myself. The number of such messages still sitting in my inbox has gotten unsustainably huge, so here is an attempt to clear some of those out. (and prove I’m not dead yet)

Google

People are starting to wake up to the danger inherent in Google’s success, and it truly is alarming. Lawmeme has an overview. ### Perl

Perlmonks: How to Upgrade Perl. I always forget about autobundle. Search::Circa: interesting looking text indexing and query parser package. ### RIAA owes you money

RIAA has settled to avoid being convicted of 7 years of illegal price fixing. Sign up to be part of the settlement. More info on ### SpamAssassin

Good news: SA 2.50 will support Bayesian filters according to Matts.
Bad News: Network Associates acquires Deersoft, Matts no longer working on SA. ### Imagemagick Recipe

Display a directory of thumbmails with ` display ‘vid:*’ RET` (can be slow) via linux cookbook### Moveable Type

Joi Ito: mail2entryscript.
Simple and Powerful Text Formatting: Generalized output filters in next version of MT. ### Milton

This quote has been tormenting me for weeks. It was Milton who said it. Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy’s child, warbl[ing] his native woodnotes wild