SQL Server: pasty wad of absolute Shit, or revolting stream of projectile vomit? The world may never know. If you ever get a chance to play with SQL Server, for an amusing day of knee-slapping hilarity, do this: 1. Dance and frolic as you dump a remote table consisting of 10 million rows. 2. Skip and jump while copying the 90MB compressed dump to a remote server. 3. Raise a jocular toast as a BULK INSERT command does its work.

I’ve tried being nice. I’ve sent multiple messages to their support email address. I’ve ignored the faults in the BlueShark pad I purchased and asked merely for a replacement connector cable. I even offered to purchase the replacement since it was probably damaged during shipping, regardless of how sloppily the pad was boxed. But now, after two months of essentially being ignored, I’ve resolved that MyMyBox must be destroyed! Why then, did it have to come to this?

I’ve got a big bag of crabs here, and I am going to put them in my mouth. Oh yes! Incidentally, what the hell else would you do with tasty crabs? Someone on Rob’s Livejournal noted that he liked this better than Badger Badger Badger, so of course I had to see it for myself. Now personally I could subsist without a churning throng live crabs shredding the supple tissues of my mouth, but I suppose it could substitute as a unique method of toughening gums of nancy-boy wussies who cringe away from such manly activities such as chewing glass or gargling thumbtacks.

Note: for those of you who don’t get the title, please see Strongbad! Well, my new laptop finally arrived. Well, though I say finally, I only ordered it on Wednesday, and the company in New York shipped it that day. I certainly didn’t expect less than 48-hours without paying some kind of exorbitant fee, but here I sit configuring this mythical beast. I suppose I should review it at least a little.

For a long time, I’ve been using Postfix as my mail server, and it has a pretty good reputation for reducing spam simply using various header and RFC checks. After throwing blacklists into the mix, and without any other tool such as SpamAssassin, I had reduced spam by roughly 80-90%. But that still meant about a dozen succeeded in reaching my inbox, and the ratio was slowly increasing thanks to the recent vast deluge of pump-and-dump scams, so I decided I needed a solution.