SpamBayes Thresholds

My e-mail spam detector, SpamBayes, seems to have problems classifying some of this year's spam, placing two or three in the Suspect folder each day when there used to be none. The main culprits are stock market e-mail, probably because their content includes a lot of business-oriented words (hard to avoid at work) that outnumber the relatively small proportion of definite spam words. Lowering the spam threshold works well enough; what really matters is that ham e-mail still gets ranked at 0%.

Google Map Melbourne Placemarks

After playing with Google Earth, I found that I could export my placemarks as KML files which can then be viewed using Google Maps. Here's a list of places we've visited. I'll see if I can annotate them with pictures later.

Google Earth For Kids

Installed Google Earth for the kids and showed them how to make placemarks and paths. They're pretty excited marking their friends' houses and are having a walk to make sure they got the placemarks and paths right. Prior to this, the kids have been rather reluctant to do any physical activity outside or explore their neighbourhood. 'Ray! Another activity for the kids!

2xExplorer DOS Command

You can start a DOS command in 2xExplorer by hitting the F10 key. However, if you simply hit Enter instead of typing a DOS command, a Cmd window opens in the folder currently displayed in 2xExplorer. Now I can avoid the annoying problem with the Windows cd command.