September 2004


Justin gives some practical tips about how to use Wiki software to support the SpamAssassin online community effort. Wiki software is a very flexible, free-form system for allowing fast editing of website content.

According to Dave Hooper there is a hint of hypocrisy about the commemorations of 9/11. To me the problem is deeper; we are all participants in the drama around the terror attacks and most of us have no idea of how much we are being manipulated.
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I just paid my Irish car tax on the Internet. It’s pretty neat. Now they will mail me out a little disc to show that I’ve paid. The only question is, why do I need the disc at all?
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I just spent the guts of 14 euro on a notebook. Notebooks are basically all just the same. Why would I spend that much on one? It’s like software - why would you pay for something when you can get something that does almost the same thing for a lower price?
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