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gmail’s spam filter is getting worse 107 identified 128 let through. That’s two days worth of spam!

Interesting facts about my gmail account. In the 7 days I have had it opened 843 spams have arrived (from a redirection I set on the geoff@cortexcontrollers.com account) of these google succesfully put 424 into the spam box. The spam now occupies 2MB of space so in around 10 years the spam will fill my […]

A cool bike for Cambridge, A mobile hotspot for laptops. Magic Bike :: Wireless Access Bike Perhaps we ought to have a punt hotspot for all the students revising on the banks of The Cam!

An article on how Google may spend its 250 million dollars on its new hardware this year. With 160GB discs costing around 100 dollars thats an awful lot of storage.BW Online | May 4, 2004 | Google’s Big-Bucks Expansion Plans

Natty bit of software that allows you to upload photos rather like an instant messenger. You can set wether they are public/private etc Welcome to Flickr! . Here is their own description:- You can use Flickr to: * Chat and exchange photos live with your friends * Meet people who have the same interests as […]

Interesting new social siteupMeetup: Organizing local interest groups.very simple interface apparently Pierre Omidyar, the founder and Chair of eBay has made an investment in it. No meetings in Cambridge yet!

Now been running the geoff@cortexcontrollers.com into my gmail account. In little over 2 hours it received 22 spam messages of which gmail only managed to filter 10 as spam. Obviously the google guys have a lot of work to do. The spam messages were very straightforward ones mailwasher would have disposed of them instantly.

On my way to posting the fact that Laurence Lessig is appearing at THe Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 at 7.30pm on the 27th May to discuss “Creative Commons in a Connected World” tickets available here for £10.75. Google kindly offered me a gmail email account, goodness knows what I will do with it maybe […]

Fascinating article from a great site on how many bowel ailments are caused by western style toilets and how much better squatting is for you. Sounds sensible even at a simple mechanical level. “The rectum has a built-in “kink” designed to maintain continence. It only straightens out when squatting” PoopReport.com: Your Source for Poop. Certainly […]

Here is an alternative to bluetooth called zigbee that looks very promising for home automation. Low power with a very fast wake up time. Time to get into the home automation business me thinks FAQs