I really like this blog/website - it is a collection of stories and pictures of various peoples home libraries!

We will add ours as soon as I get around to take some photos

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I found this tidbit interesting - it looks like the likes of Starbucks has actually led to a even more radical growth in the really independent coffee shops.

Taylor Clark in Slate:

According to recent figures from the Specialty Coffee Association of America, 57 percent of the nation’s coffeehouses are still mom and pops. Just over the five-year period from 2000 to 2005—long after Starbucks supposedly obliterated indie cafes—the number of mom and pops grew 40 percent, from 9,800 to nearly 14,000 coffeehouses.

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More information on Sieve - which comes with OsX server 10.4 and 10.5. - a language especially made to filter emails.

The advantage is that any processing done by Sieve happens before the emails are delivered into the users email box - a distinct advantage when you have a wireless device, like a iPhone that picks up your emails directly from a iMap mailbox.

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So far I have used Mail as may main private email client, picking up email from a OsX Server installation, where I use the built-in SpamAssassin spamfiltering on the server (I have blogged about how to do this previously - including how to keep on training the filters).

The server has been set up to "mark" all email identified as SPAM in this manner :

i.e. by adding "*** JUNK MAIL ***" in from on the Subject line. And then on the Mail (client) side there is a rule that moves any emails starting with this in the Subject line to a "Junk" mail folder.

This has worked well so far - but with the advent of a iPhone picking up emails from the same email account this does not work so well any more, as the iPhone get's hold of the email before the Mail rule has ben run, and I can therefore see all the JUNK emails.

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Pageviews on the 2 main blogs on this server in December (2007)

First the "old" b2evolution based blog

and then the "new: Drupal based bog.

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We went by the Apple Store in Regent street yesterday - and it was packed.

But I still managed to get the fiddly cables I wanted (one headphone cable for the iPhone, and one composite cable for the iPhone & iPod Touch) - but the best bot was that when I wanted to pay I did not walk over to the tills, I just walked over to the nearest member of staff, who whipped out here electronic payment device, took my card, and emailed a receipt to me.

All in one minute!

Amazing - it took all the stress out of the shopping for me.

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As the iPhone is one of the first mobile phones (if not the first) to come with a unlimited data tariff it's not surprising that iPhone users take advantage of this, and the only really useful web browser to be found on a mobile phone. The FT got a few nuggets of hard data from O2's visit to Apple recently:

Insanely Great Mac has the breakdown on a meeting between O2 (purveyors of the iPhone in Britain) and Mr. Jobs from the UK's Financial Times, and it seems iPhone users across the pond can't get enough data. Over 60% of iPhone users use over 25mb/month of data, while only 1.8% of non-iPhone users on O2 go over that mark. That's a lot of data downloading. [From British iPhone users love their data]

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Covent Gardens market halls were quite nicely decorated this year :

(Click for larger)

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Every time I change jobs we go out for a meal at Matsuri in St. James's - my favourite restarurant. They serve magnificent food with good service - as you can see from these pictures.

(Click to see larger images_

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Tor

Sent from my phone.

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