Hotmail seems to be shuffling its numbers around significantly thisweek, to my surprise. I'm not sure the result is really better, butit's certainly different:

• 4 email messages accepted from Hotmail, although 3 of them look alot like typical advance fee fraud spam Hotmail addresses.
• only 79 messages rejected because they came from non-Hotmail emailaddresses.
• 138 messages sent to our spamtraps.
• 27 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hitour spamtraps.
• 20 messages refused due

I'm a big fan of simple markup languages for writing web pages (or infact any sort of document; it just happens that web sites are prettymuch everything I write these days). Recently I figured out a goodexpression of why:

Simple markup languages are the same idea as high level programminglanguages: less make-work and more of what actually matters.

(And as an added bonus, less interruption of my writing to sprinkleHTML all over.)

Languages like C and Java have a bunch

One of the most exciting presentation at the recent linux.conf.au 2006 conference(ironically held in New Zealand) was Van Jacobson's talk on speeding upthe Linux networking stack. On a TCP stack that he says is already oneof the fastest going, he managed to well over double the performance,while removing and simplifying code, even in driver hot paths.

(For more details, see David Miller's summary here ;Van Jacobson's slides are here (1.4

Recently I read Doc Searls' The Chronological Web , where he argues (as the CentreSource blog entry that led me to his entry puts it) that most organizations need a blog.But what really made me sit up was this bit towards the end:

This helps, for example, when we talk to civilians who are new tothe Web and want to "put up a website". Very often what they reallyneed is a blog. [...] Updating a "site" is achore.