Archive for January 24th, 2008

My name is Andy and I have a problem

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

$ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename ‘*/new/*’| wc -l
123156
$ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename ‘*/cur/*’| wc -l
24244

If it’s not obvious, that means I have 123k unread emails and 24k read ones. I archive off read emails older than 60 days, but still, that’s pretty pointless and stupid. It’s time to have a purge […]

Not everything is an issue of liberty

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Andrew comments regarding Dog-lead goths ‘hounded off bus’:

Now whilst I am not for/against the Goth lifestyle - it’s not something that I’d personally get into. However, just because it’s seen as a bit ’strange’ or ‘weird’ to the majority of us does not mean we should prevent it.

Andrew, if you take the bus company […]