Seeking, seizing the Kingdom

For those who may not know, procmail is a email processing program, very fully featured, very powerful, not user-friendly in the slightest.  Why use it?  Because it processes and sorts your mail before you go to read it, which is a fantastic thing.  But why in 17 years hasn’t someone come up with a better, less cryptic syntax for such features.  Writing my procmailrc is such a pain, getting the little-known syntax just right.  Most of the guys who write about procmail “recipies” on the web are just trying to show off their sheer “geekness”, that they have somehow come to understand a mystery thought equal to that of the female psyche (but at least there is some documentation for procmail).

When I am rich (God, please not famous), I would like to write a procmail alternative, written in Ada, of course.  Don’t hold your breath for this one.

Arizona is beautiful! Sunny, 90 degrees. The flight was good. My boss Sieu picked Jerrid up from PHX terminal 2, and came to pick Joy and I up at terminal 3. We went to Sieu’s house and settled in. I feel like we are the guests of honor, staying in their house during their preparations for their reception Jerrid and I have been working at the office in Tempe the last two days. Got to meet my local team member Jeffrey, interesting fellow. He’s been using Ada longer than I’ve been alive! (more…)

Today is the first Monday after DST came to rob me of that hour of sleep I needed. The company I’m with, Singo Solution, is based in Arizona. They unlike most of the rest of the world are smart enough to ignore DST altogether, which is great for them, but now they’re 2 hours behind me instead of one.
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