Entries in Life

I've been a very busy beaver behind the scenes here. Just when I got the OK to go-ahead at my day-job with a more comprehensive spam-blocking solution (replacing eManager with SpamAssassin), I also got a consulting gig to hook up spam blocking for a couple of other small places. And, while I'm on a role, I'm going to re-implement virus-scanning for the sites hosted on everyhost.com.

The interesting thing is the variety of Mail Transfer Agents used. We have Exim here and will be using amavis-ng and Clam AntiVirus. At my day-job, it is sendmail, mimedefang, and VirusWall. For the consulting gig, it is qmail, qmail-scanner, and RAV AntiVirus. Fun, Fun, Fun! Three completely different ways to solve the same problem!

I recently met Ephrem, a long-haired, Orthodox, Linux newbie who is interested enough in XML and tech to help me work out the bugs in my OpenWeblog code. So, I set up a weblog for him and the first thing he does is post a painting titled The Body of Christ Dead in the Tomb, which is referenced in Dostoevsky's The Idiot. As Dostoyevsky writes: This picture could rob many a man of his faith.