Or wait a month. David Seah uses Groundhog Day to make resolutions and then uses 3/3, 4/4, etc. to review progress. http://davidseah.com/2007/02/groundhog-day-resolutions/

I read those in regular English classes in middle school (grade 7 or 8 as I recall) - they are science fiction, certainly, but are so well known that at least some students will have read them already. Considering this is a science fiction specific course, some more interesting choices should be in order.

I don't mean to imply that Fahrenheit 451 and Flowers for Algernon aren't good works or that they're uninteresting, but in the context of a high school science-fiction-specific class, seeing selections like this on the syllabus (even if I hadn't already read them) would have made me, as a student, groan to myself. That's partially just me, of course - I'm not afraid to admit that I have an aversion to things that are really popular ;)

However, beyond that, these kinds of books have been beaten to death in schools and in popular culture. They've lost some of their impact. I think students should still read them, but I wouldn't choose them as required reading for a class when there are so many other directions you could go.

I have a WRT54GL (effectively a WRT54Gv4) with DD-WRT, and when I was using it, it would often freeze. Usually when I was running a P2P client.

I found this: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown I'll probably try that stuff next time I set it up. And Tomato. And OpenWRT. DD-WRT has lots of unexplained errors. I've heard good things about Tomato, and I value stability and functionality over freedom (they usually come packaged, I rarely have to choose).

Another possible reason for a router to freeze is overheating.

I think the best solution is to build our own. I think regular routers are just not powerful enough to route regular traffic adequately. I bought a regular router figuring it would be higher quality and simpler to use than my Debian-based home made router, but I was wrong. The only advantage to a regular router is that it takes less electricity, but it gets less done too. I suppose it takes up less space, and is easier to move too. And it looks prettier.

Interesting. I'll have to forward this to the person I heard that from.

OTOH, not sure I care enough to bother.

I live in Japan from last 5 years and I disagree with you. They do ask some questions but the way they ask is so polite and humane that you would be "willing" to give them more information that they are asking for. They also have concerns about their security. This not like some rude US officer is harassing you. Most probably, you will encounter a cute Japanese lady there giving you an unforgettable smile you might ever have encountered. The attitude of the officers as well as the local people are very very polite and honest.

I feel safe in speculating that if *you* will not pony up the emails to a US judge, the people who maintain the server farm *here in the US* will.

They can't - they have no access to the emails, because they can't login to the machines and they can't access the encryption keys for the data. All maintenance of the OS/software is done from Australia.

We've had a number of US-based law enforcement bodies over the year try to get hold of our data without going via the appropriate Australian bodies, and it doesn't work out for them. In the end, they have always ended up submitting a request for cooperation via the Australian Federal Police, as they are required to do, and we respond to that request in line with Australian law.

I am a devoted Dvorak keyboard user, but I have to still retain my QWERTY capacity as I don't want to be like "that guy that insisted on Dvorak". Also, as the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, my Blackberry is QWERTY only. I put new stickers on the keys of my ergonomic keyboard, but not on my laptop keyboard. I just type Dvorak from memory on the laptop. It can be tough though with passwords.

Just in case you need it, in Windows go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages Tab > Text services and input languages > and find US Dvorak or US English on the list of input keyboards.

If you've crossed these off your list then you're really missing out

Yeah. Missing out on being treated like a criminal. Do you have any idea how many amazing places there are in the world that don't lie inside U.S. or U.K. borders? Why waste your time and gamble that their systems work right and won't pick you up on some data mismatch. Fuck it. I think I'll check out an Island paradise instead. Or something closer to home and save some money.

Check out his webpage petervanloan.com He's an environmentalist! (He got funding for water meters) He's gotten funding for Recreation! (I think they're paving the parking lot) Yep, I better quit picking on this guy.

> When an e-mail is rejected with a "please try again later"
> response, it makes the recipient's company look bad at an
> organizational level.

Only if the delay gets noticed.

> What's worse, senders may ignore these "try again" messages,
> or never see them at all.

Under anything vaguely resembling normal conditions, the sending user never sees the "try again" message and never knows that there's greylisting involved. The mail server takes care of all that. All the major MTAs since the beginning of time have supported queue-and-resend, because when the internet was young mail got delayed all the time due to unreliable infrastructure.

The problem with greylisting isn't that mail would ever completely fail to get through, but rather than mail from new senders would be *delayed*, at least for several minutes, possibly for several *hours*. Given the way email was originally designed to work, this should theoretically be no big deal, but in practice a lot of organizations won't tolerate that kind of delay in incoming mail.

For personal email, though, it can be an attractive option. Bear in mind, recognized whitelisted senders get through right away; only mail from unknown senders gets delayed.

Excuse me, but there are other safe places in the world than the US, so until you have something to back that up, I'll take that as just another unsubstantiated claim based on the standard US-centric worldview.

I can really agree that it is probably the safest border in the US, or maybe even in North America. But how would it compare with e.g. the Sweden-Norway border? Or any intra-EU border?

Ants *can* sort tiny screws in space!