Wednesday, March 31, 2004

A New Addition

Chloë Megan Courtenay arrived this evening at 20:44, weighing in at 6lbs 12oz.

Chloë's Arrival

Both mother and baby are doing fine, and hope to come home on Saturday morning.

More pictures will follow at http://gallery.edcourtenay.co.uk/albums/6.aspx very soon.

 Thursday, March 18, 2004

Seriously Hacked Off

Some tosspot has decided to send out a ton of spam emails advertising Viagra to the world, faking my domain as the return address.

This means my mailserver is currently having to fend off masses of bounce messages from other mailservers around the world that have rejected mail due to invalid email addresses, or messages telling me my email has been rejected by their spam filter because I've sent unsolicited commercial email.

I haven't!

Why can't sysadmins learn to disable bounce back messages for UCE? It should be perfectly obvious by now that the return addresses in UCE messages are never valid, and all that happens is some poor sod (me at the moment) gets flooded with erroneous messages.

Luckily, I control my own mail system at home using a combination of fetchmail, qmail, qmail-scannercourier-imap, spamassassin and maildrop. So, for the time being all these bounce back messages are being directed to /dev/null - but I pity the poor computer illiterate sods who get hit with this crap and don't know what the hell to do about it.

But more to the point, why on earth should I have to jump through hoops just simply because some arsehole on another continent wants to flog some blue pills to idiots I've never met?

 Tuesday, March 16, 2004

One Year Older

It hardly seems possible, but Zak was one year old yesterday.

The past year has flown by - it only feels like last week that he was a tiny helpless bundle, rather than the walking lump he is now!

Oh well, only four weeks to go and we'll have number three on the way! 

 Sunday, February 29, 2004

More Pictures

Seeing as I'm here in Israel, it would be a crime if I didn't go to see Jerusalem - so I went on a guided tour yesterday. Pictures from the trip can be found here:

http://gallery.edcourtenay.co.uk/albumListing.aspx?albumID=5&albumName=Jerusalem.

 Wednesday, February 25, 2004

First Pictures Up

I've got my SmartMedia card reader hooked up, so I've started uploading some pictures from my trip here:

http://gallery.edcourtenay.co.uk/albumListing.aspx?albumID=4&albumName=Israel+Trip