archive for June 2007

Avoiding the Microsoft Tax

More and more recently, I've been wanting a new laptop for no reason other than that the novelty of this one has worn off. I've been researching, and it seems very few companies indeed offer laptops in UK without Windows. This is almost certainly because it would adversely affect their OEM Windows price.

Posted 29th June 2007 in Life, with 2 comments

Oh so much to do in Rasen

I couldn't resist this quote from an "Advertising Feature" in this week's Market Rasen Mail. Sorry for the wonky scanning!

Posted 29th June 2007 in Life, with 0 comments

Goodbye Central Trains

The Department for Transport recently announced that the franchise for trains in Market Rasen station will be taken from Central Trains and Stagecoach Midland Rail Ltd (most likely trading as East Midlands Rail) will be serving us from 11th November.

Posted 29th June 2007 in Life, with 0 comments

Exams ended

That's right, the exams are over. Ended at Ewert House, Summertown with Linear Algebra/Calculus.

Posted 18th June 2007 in Life, with 0 comments

Hotmail removed my account

Today I read an article about problems with Hotmail's spam filtering triggering false positives if the sending server's reverse DNS does not match the domain part of the email (even with SPF records). So I thought I'd perform some testing myself, using smtp.ox.ac.uk to send from my maniacmartin.com address.

Posted 16th June 2007 in Life, with 0 comments