I have been having increasing problems with spam emails recently and so decided to do something about it. I have installed Spam Assassin and integrated it with my mailserver (Hmailserver). It does a resonable job of identifying most of the spam, but some of the image based ones are still getting through. Hopefully as I train it, the performance will get better.
We had the afternoon free of the school run today and so we went up to Hobgoblin to have a look at guitars for Jo.
Jo has a classical guitar that she has played for many years and was considering a new guitar to allow her to develop more. The classical had quite a wide neck for her small hands and so it made some chords difficult (if not impossible).
We went into the shop and explained what she was looking for. The first guitar suggested was perfect; she did try several others, but this just suited all requirements. It is an Ami guitar in Antique Burst made by Art & Lutherie, a brand of Godin Guitars.
We also bought a tin whistle for our daughter who was very patient while Jo checked out the different guitars. Unfortunately we forgot to pick up the bag with it in when we left. I rang the shop and they were prepared to post it to us, even though it was our fault. As I work in Milton Keynes it will be easier to collect it after work tomorrow.
[Edit] 15th Sept. Collected tin whistle this evening and everyone happy.
I had a collection to make today that was about 2 minutes away from CadburyWorld in Bournville. So, to make the best of the day we all went to CadburyWorld; it was about a 2 hour drive, so we couldn’t not go there really.
We got there about 9:45 and so went around the back to the playground with the kids until it opened at 10:00. You all get free chocolate samples when you go in and you are not rushed at all. There is everything from the history of chocolate to the advertising. The staff in the demonstration area made working with chocolate look so easy. It really is suitable for all ages and was a great day out
About a month ago, Mum’s computer crashed just before we went on holiday. I managed to coax it back into life, but the disc was failing. Last Monday, I replaced the hard disc, but after copying that data over the system was in a worse state than I thought. On Friday, I took the computer away and rebuilt it.
The computer is now back and working. When I took the computer back today, I looked at the VOIP router that I got Mum for her birthday. I got a Draytek Vigor 2510V ADSL router with VOIP; this was an all in one solution for ADSL and had built in VOIP (Voice over IP). However, when I first installed it last weekend, the call quality was poor with a lot of echo on the line. I changed the codec used to G.711 today and now the call quality is fine. It is configured using VOIPCheap the same as our VOIP service. [previous post]
I bought tickets today for the signing of Raymond E. Feist‘s new book, Into a Dark Realm. On the evening of 25th September, Raymond E. Feist will be at Ottakar’s Milton Keynes store to talk about and sign his new book. I have been a fan of his since about 1986, when someone lent me a copy of Magician
Although there were seven books published before I started to collect the hardcovers, I have managed to get copies of all of the original versions in hardcover except Magician, which I have the hardcover anniversary edition.
I spent some time about a week ago entering the information that my mum had found out for the Cakebread line of my family. Today, I have got around to updating my online databases with the new information.
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