I’ll admit it, I’m cheap. I’ve really enjoyed using knowspam to help thin the spam out of my inbox. But, when it came time to renew my subscription, I let it lapse. It’s only $20/year, which is very fair. But I’ve had so many “only $20/year” things come due lately, I just couldn’t do one more.
I’ve been using Thunderbird since version 0.4, but a recent storm left me without a box and relying on web-based email apps for a few months. I had heard that the adaptive spam filtering in Thunderbird 0.9 were really good, so, when I finally got my new laptop, I decided to take it for a spin. And I’m happy as a clam. After only a few days, Thunderbird is doing a remarkable job of recognizing spam and moving it out of my inbox. And, so far, I’ve had no false-positives.
Tonight I finally got a new development platform running on the new laptop. I’m running, for now, a basic Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP (WAMP) setup. This is my first spin with PHP5 (on top of Apache 2). I’ve been hacking a bit on showlister and things are going well, though WinXP is still sluggish.