Random Babblings

Obfuscated Emails

Obfuscated emails are rally starting to piss me off. If you don’t know what I mean, I’m talking about things like:
‘callmestupid at moron dot com’
or what set me off today:
‘moc.diputs ta drater.ami’
The simple fact is, they are outdated. Do I like spam, no, but I do something about it. If you revive a lot of spam and you don’t have your ISPs filters on (or something on your computer), shame on you. If your ISP doesn’t have filters, bitch. If bitching doesn’t do any good, move or become your own. If you already are your own, learn how to fix this problem. Stastical filters reduce the amount of spam you see to minute percentages. Greylisting makes it so your server doesn’t even revive 90% of the spam that tries to get there.
My server used to get 40-50 spam a day, but for the most part I didn’t see it because of the statistical filter. Not happy to be receiving all that spam in the first place I implemented the greylisting and am only receiving about 10 spam a day, that I’m still not seeing thanks to my statistical filter.
Enough ranting, on to something fun.

Roborally

I mentioned Roborally yesterday, but didn’t go to much into it. You can read in more detail in the link. But RR is essentially a robot race in a widget factory. You get to program your robot, through pits, conveyors and lasers to hit the flags and win the race. Sounds simple on the surface, but when you combine random program cards on a board that you can arrange in near endless ways, it becomes a lot of fun.
I’ve wanted this one for a while, but $100 prices on ebay shied me away. They finally reprinted it this weekend, so I snagged a copy. This will enjoy many a playing any my house. I’ll post more later.