A very English gripe
The make-up of an Englishman varies dramatically depending on the context of the appending blog post, but right now let’s say it’s 33% fine roast meat, 33% penalty shoot outs and 34% whinging about the weather.
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On Monday I will mostly be graduating.
Yes, the official conclusion to my university years is upon us and I’ll be back in Manchester for the day on Monday 10th for my Graduation. It’s strange, for a long time I was a bit indifferent towards graduation, perhaps I’d just not really thought about it very much. Now I’m quite keen to stop into Manchester again, hopefully see a few people.
Job Hunting
There are two things I want to write about, both positively.
Small Job Summer
On a related note to all of this employment talk, I’m currently spending summer at home and trying to pay my way by taking on some small-scale web development jobs.
Gatekeeping Akismet
It seems that the effectiveness of Akismet for comment spam protection is starting to wane. It still catches huge amounts of spam (need to clear another 1600 spam comments from my cache in Wordpress after I write this) but slowly but surely spam comments are sneaking in.
Roundcube Webmail
Some time ago I stopped using Gmail. I was criticising it increasingly regularly and it seemed only right that I should explore alternatives. The alternative I’ve been settled on since then has been IMAP, in combination with Thunderbird on PC and Mail.app on the Mac. That’s worthy of a separate post at some point, but one big step backwards I did find was the occasional need for webmail access.