{"id":15,"date":"2006-12-11T23:43:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T23:43:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-06-01T22:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T21:00:29","slug":"11122006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2006\/12\/11122006\/","title":{"rendered":"A collection of thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spam ceased to be a problem for me for a long time. Evolution&#8217;s integration with <a href=\"http:\/\/spamassassin.apache.org\/\">SpamAssassin<\/a> has meant very little junk landing in my inbox for many years now. The downside to this happy state of affairs has recently made itself known &#8211; many emails that should be landing in my inbox, aren&#8217;t. Having to glance through all my spam to fish out those emails that need rescuing has sharply reminded me of just how big a problem spam really is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2006\/12\/grave.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12\" title=\"Click for larger view.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2006\/12\/grave-small.jpg\" alt=\"Acorns on grave\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangoproject.com\/\">Django<\/a> looks like a really nice web framework. The way in which each layer of the stack can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b-list.org\/weblog\/2006\/11\/16\/django-tips-get-most-out-generic-views\">customised<\/a> with the minimal of fuss should make it very easy to use. Compared to Zope and other monolithic environments it&#8217;s a welcoming combination. I need to find a project that requires me to build a web app so I can try it in anger.<\/p>\n<p>Wii intrigues me. I like the idea of something that really does change the state of the art of human\/computer interfaces. The years of hot air about 3D GUIs and alternative approaches to using a computer have given way, thanks to a games console, to a genuine change in approach. Not just that, but according to those that know such things, it&#8217;s meant to be fun too boot!<\/p>\n<p>However several things are holding me back from getting one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t like 3D games. This mainly because the standard first person perspective technique used for most games makes me <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/askslashdot\/00\/06\/02\/0337257.shtml\">ill<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know whether this would be a problem for Zelda, hopefully not.<\/li>\n<li>If we do move to the states next year then it wouldn&#8217;t work anymore.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve not played games seriously for years. We have in the past played Gameboy Advanced games, but I found the poor screen on the original model eventually put me off.<\/li>\n<li>It looks like a <a href=\"http:\/\/wii.stocknetwork.co.uk\/\">serious amount of effort<\/a> would have to be expended to actually find one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still I&#8217;m tempted and it is nearly Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam ceased to be a problem for me for a long time. Evolution&#8217;s integration with SpamAssassin has meant very little junk landing in my inbox for many years now. The downside to this happy state of affairs has recently made itself known &#8211; many emails that should be landing in my inbox, aren&#8217;t. Having to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}