Socialist Sushi

I’ve actually been able to go a long time without worrying too much about spam. Apparently socialistsushi isn’t a word most random junk mail generators create as a domain, and my email address isn’t used in too many public forums.

That’s been changing lately. Over last weekend I got probably over 300 virus emails, plus the junk mail has been increasing quite a bit. So I finally decided to do something about it.

First, of course, I installed SpamAssassin. Looking for a virus scanner to use on the linux server that handles my email, I discovered Clam AntiVirus.

Both work great. I trained SpamAssassin on the mail in my Junk folder. So far it has only missed one piece of spam, with no false positives. Clam AV has cut down on all the virus emails I’ve been getting.

I am a happy camper. Can’t reccomend these two pieces of software enough.

As you may have noticed on the menu to the left, I’ve added some photo collages. There are two: one where random images are added every 5 minutes, and one where it is completely recreated every 10.

The former uses photos in the gallery and on Garrett’s site. The latter just has the images that are here.

This isn’t an original idea. I actually got it from here. I wanted to something similar for a project I’m working on, and figured it might provide some amusement for visitors here.

I plan to add images from other sites — mostly news, I think — in the near future. The ability to grab images from search engines is a good one, but I don’t want porn popping up here.