Day: January 24, 2008

My name is Andy and I have a problem

Posted on by Andy 
$ 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 and unsubscribe from all those lists which I always think I’ll get around to reading at some point.

Update: Just over a week later and with some ruthless pruning, things look much better:

$ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename '*/new/*' | wc -l
2234
$ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename '*/cur/*' | wc -l
16774

Not everything is an issue of liberty

Posted on by Andy

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 at their word they were not stopping it because they deemed it “strange” or “weird”, but because they deemed it unsafe, i.e. they did not claim to be taking a position on the Goth lifestyle. Being libertarian (or indeed anarchist) does not mean “everyone can do anything they want.”

I have a little difficulty in seeing how these two being chained together really affects anyone else’s safety though..!