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Since midnight on March 1, 2005, I have received 29305 emails at my personal account, of which 21949 have been caught by my spam filter and either filed as spam (5545 of them) or automatically deleted (16404 of them). I estimate at least another 3000 or so have made it past my spam filter (it was very generous until a few months ago, when I learned how to make it do Bayesian learning), so let's put the number of spams I've received at 25000. This means 85.3% of the email I receive is spam. Statistically, then, if I receive five emails, it's only 73.5% likely that one will be legitimate.

Since I made my spam filter start using Bayesian learning, I really only get about five or six spams in my inbox a day, I get somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 spams in my spam box a day, and the rest get shuffled off into the bit sink of /dev/null. I also get about one or two emails a month that are incorrectly flagged as spam, but I don't care so much about that, because if you're sending me an email with tons of capital letters or lots of exclamation points or something in it, I probably don't want to read it, anyway. On the other hand, Debra's flight information to Washington ended up in my spam box a few days ago, but I think that's because she attached some HTML that was almost entirely images, and I have that flagged as a Bad Thing. I also hate HTML email.

In other news, I bought a much-needed 1 GB RAM upgrade for my laptop yesterday, which will bring its total memory up to 1280 MB. Running all my engineering stuff, plus a web browser, plus OpenOffice, made it take about four minutes to close a spreadsheet. Swapping to disk is bad, bad, bad. This is also cool because it means none of my computers will have less than 1 GB of RAM. Nerd.

I also finally finished my nearly 20-hour VLSI CAD homework at 3:30 this morning, and I only didn't know how to do one tiny bit of problem #3, which was about creating conflict graphs for a DPLL SAT thinger. I believe that was covered in the class I missed when I was feeling exceptionally crappy.

Debra would like everyone to know her address is 1234 Dodgy Street #60, Denton, TX, 76203, and her phone number is 972 555 9928, and her social security number is 111 11 1111. That is all.