Sat, 10 Nov 2007

E-mail encryption; afternoon plans

Setting up e-mail encryption for my account will be the next step.

Unexpectedly, I found photos of a fireworks display which I thought had been lost.

Leaving in a few minutes for a junk trip and picnic. The weather is almost perfect. Sunny, just a bit of "haze" (=HK slang for poison in the air).

Posted on 10 Nov 2007 at 12:14 in /life. -- Permalink

Activated my own e-mail account

I've activated an e-mail account, accessible by IMAP, on my own server. Step by step getting out of Google. I learned in the process that SpamAssassin is already installed on my server, I just had to click "Enable". Nice.

So from now on it's oliver dot engelen at tstigers dot net.

Posted on 10 Nov 2007 at 11:43 in /technology/e-mail. -- Permalink

An e-mail service provider

Probably very good, but definitely not cheap: US$ 11.34/month (1 GB, spam filter).

Posted on 10 Nov 2007 at 09:29 in /technology/e-mail. -- Permalink

And now for something quite different ...

That went quite unexpectedly. We couldn't find the lady's hotel so we were late, on eventually arriving there were told she was waiting for us in front of the building, where in fact she wasn't; after some 40 minutes, she gave us a call from the reception and said she had returned to her room ... We went to a restaurant together, had Hong Kong food instead of Thai food, somehow still coped with the menu and enjoyed our dinner, missed the light show because we were so late, invited our guest home, somehow got stuck in the nightmarket on our way to the tube, arrived at home around 10. Had wine. Got an unpublished China-related article by a university teacher from her, disregarding everything we know about intellectual property. Weird ... It was a nice evening!

Posted on 10 Nov 2007 at 00:15 in /life. -- Permalink