I spent last week visiting Eli Sagor, my old roommate from way back when. Eli's an extension forester working at the University of Minnesota in Duluth, and we spent an excellent week up in the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area, wedged between the north shore of Lake Superior and the Ontario border. Needless to say, in spite of the bugs, it was beautiful up there and a highly relaxing vacation.

Book-wise, before I split town I finished Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I was lucky enough to not have this fantastic novel force-fed to me in high school, and I've read it several times. When I get a chance, I'll share my thoughts about this novel, its connection to Apocalypse Now, and my favourite poet, T.S. Eliot. While I was on the road, I also picked up Eli's copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls, which I'm about halfway through.

I'm running late for hockey tonight, so I'll have to cut this short. I'll finish some of these thoughts later, as well as some comments about our recent heat wave here in Montreal, and Nisha's progressing pregnancy.

Why? Most spammers use automated crawlers to scour the net for email addresses. I'm making a few naive assumptions, but the goal of this page is to ensare crawlers and pollute their databases with thousands of useless addresses. Score one for the little guy! Grab the source code here. If you have suggestions for imrovements. Drop me a line. :-)

Nisha's favourite thing about this city is that they sell Rice Dream in corner stores. ;-)

> Now that the 'quiet time' is here, I shall be ordering less paper. Be prepared therefore to use both sides of the sheet if the document you print is not 'official'. Remember "waste not want not"

FYI, the following script will allow you to print your postscript documents double sided. Simply prepend your document with it as follows:
'cat doubleside.ps mydocument.ps | lpr -Plj1'

You can grab the script here.

One note: I have found that it works only some of the time with postscripts generated from M$ Office. Perhaps Jan or Phillipe know of a method for printing double sided from NT boxes.

$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$c=142;if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5; $_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d= unxV,xb25,$_;$b=73;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=($t=255)&($d >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9 ,$_=(map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t ^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271)) [$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval

For more info and other interesting DeCSS formats, visit Professor David Touretzky's gallery.

Headline has been stalled for a while, but scottyb and I want to resurrect it and get it back up to speed. (Note that freshmeat has changed their structure and we haven't kept up..).

There is also Robodaemon which is overdue for a shakedown. When I'm done my term as UA, I hope to resurrect some of these projects.

I still like to look at our wedding and honeymoon pictures from time to time. :-)

Team Sucko is still alive and kicking..

Oh, and by the way, I passed my proposal exam on Friday. Now I'm free to concentrate on brows.. umm, research, yeah, that's it.

Here's a few tests:

Nice, eh...