May, 10, 2002 archives

after some futile searching for a badmailto patch for qmail, i finally stumbled across the badrcptto patch. (i'm using this to reject messages to bogus addresses at php.net at the smtp level, rather than endure the inevitable deluge of double-bounces or just blackhole mail to those addresses.)

i guess i should really be looking at qpsmtpd, but i wanted to pick the low-hanging fruit first.

because of his brilliant track record, the infamous seamus blackley is forming his own game company. not quite a publisher, not quite a developer, it apparently just exists to vacuum up money from the middle. and this guy has plenty of experience with things that suck.

i wish slash sites would make their journals more accessible. they're currently hidden behind “search for a user” walls, and don't talk to services like blo.gs, so there's not a lot of ways someone might stumble upon interesting things like matt's journal or gnat's journal.

anthony edwards' exit from er was the lowest-rated er cast exit. something that had been bugging me for a while is the thought that they had switched in a different actress to portray his daughter (which they did: #1, #2). what really made it stick out is that they actually re-filmed a scene originally played by #1 to use in the “previously on...” clips at the beginning of the show. i think it was funny they got michael ironside to make an appearance in the funeral scene, considering he was in a whopping five episodes. i guess william h. macy dissed them.

i said it before, and i'll say it again: it's going to be a lazy dog-dangling afternoon. then again, i haven't had a whole lot of afternoons in the last year that couldn't be classified that way. i guess if i were really motivated, i'd be checking out the starscene carnival. (and then next weekend is the noho theatre and arts festival.)