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A first

I’m sure it’s happened to others, but it’s a first time for me. Amazon tried to sell me one of my own books.

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Downtime update 2

Back from Wales, where the weather was much better than one might have expected. I gather from the papers that I am supposed to be ashamed of having been an Olympic sceptic, but I am not (though I would say, … Continue reading

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The end of politeness

I was rather disturbed to notice the following message from SpamAssassin attached to an email I received from a Masters student: * 1.7 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains ‘Dear (something)’ This is more than 1/3 of the number of points required to … Continue reading

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