ext_1433 (![[identity profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small} damned-colonial.livejournal.com) wrote in ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} thefourthvine, |
1. A friend of mine developed a thing called "rubric" that might do what you want. It's very much like del.icio.us but supports a tag called @private which means nobody else can see the entry. There seems to be a publicly usable version of the site here: http://de.lirio.us/
2. I've got nothing here. I mean, I get the impression that what you really want is something that prevents you from getting spyware and other such nasties? My only suggestions is that you stop using Windows and, if you have a simplistic cable modem that's not also a router, get one that's a router and that will put you inside a NAT type network. That'll mean that your machine itself won't be reachable from the wider internet. Firewalls don't belong on your computer, they belong *between* your computer and the Internet.
3. There are no really good spam filters, sorry. A Bayesian filter in your client might help, though, if you don't have one already. They're quite good at learning what's spam and what's not based on you training them for a while. Of course that depends on what client you use. I know that Mail.app, the mail client that comes with a Mac, has a Bayesian filter built in. The other thing I do, that you might want to consider, is that I have a gmail account that is used for backup. *EVERY* piece of email I get goes there too, as a copy, before any spam filtering occurs. Then if someone says "No really! I did send it to you!" and you find yourself thinking "oh God, my spam filter probably ate it" you can just log into gmail and say "OK, where is it?" and the search thingy will find it for you.
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despatches. Which I really ought to just hand over to ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nolivingman at this point, since I haven't been doing my share at all for ages.
5. Errr, I'm sure you read my "recent fanfic reading" posts so a) if I read it, you already know about it, and b) you'll see that I, too, have been sucked into the laziness that is the SGA newsletter. Um. Absolute best one recently would have to be "Green Ice", though, the Jeeves and Wooster/Lord Peter Wimsey crossover.
6. Haven't been reading much non-fic lately, I'm afraid, so can't rec anything particular. "Nelson's Navy" by Brian Lavery is rather a favourite, though.
7. Brideshead Revisited. I'm picking this totally at random from the pile of DVDs on the shelf that *I* should watch, actually -- I bought the set, watched some, then read the book and never finished watching the DVDs. What was I thinking?
2. I've got nothing here. I mean, I get the impression that what you really want is something that prevents you from getting spyware and other such nasties? My only suggestions is that you stop using Windows and, if you have a simplistic cable modem that's not also a router, get one that's a router and that will put you inside a NAT type network. That'll mean that your machine itself won't be reachable from the wider internet. Firewalls don't belong on your computer, they belong *between* your computer and the Internet.
3. There are no really good spam filters, sorry. A Bayesian filter in your client might help, though, if you don't have one already. They're quite good at learning what's spam and what's not based on you training them for a while. Of course that depends on what client you use. I know that Mail.app, the mail client that comes with a Mac, has a Bayesian filter built in. The other thing I do, that you might want to consider, is that I have a gmail account that is used for backup. *EVERY* piece of email I get goes there too, as a copy, before any spam filtering occurs. Then if someone says "No really! I did send it to you!" and you find yourself thinking "oh God, my spam filter probably ate it" you can just log into gmail and say "OK, where is it?" and the search thingy will find it for you.
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despatches. Which I really ought to just hand over to nolivingman at this point, since I haven't been doing my share at all for ages.5. Errr, I'm sure you read my "recent fanfic reading" posts so a) if I read it, you already know about it, and b) you'll see that I, too, have been sucked into the laziness that is the SGA newsletter. Um. Absolute best one recently would have to be "Green Ice", though, the Jeeves and Wooster/Lord Peter Wimsey crossover.
6. Haven't been reading much non-fic lately, I'm afraid, so can't rec anything particular. "Nelson's Navy" by Brian Lavery is rather a favourite, though.
7. Brideshead Revisited. I'm picking this totally at random from the pile of DVDs on the shelf that *I* should watch, actually -- I bought the set, watched some, then read the book and never finished watching the DVDs. What was I thinking?
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