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I'm moving iandouglas.com back to DreamHost, and I expect there will be some down time and Email interruption for a day or two. The blog will be starting over clean under some other engine (perhaps a wiki format, I haven't decided yet), and old content will be added as I get around to it.

For being such a hard-core Linux geek all these years, I'm sure it's confused many of my friends and coworkers to hear me raving about Windows 7 lately. Truth of the matter is that I got in the beta program and have had build 7000 on my work laptop for several weeks. I also got an update to build 7068 running on my system at home, and I can't help but say "see ya" to XP when the final release comes out 'cause it's so much better than XP in so many ways. Is Win7 cool enough for me to switch full-time though? That's the question.

My father recently sent me a link to an interesting read about a woman having issues with a brand new laptop booting Windows, and her rant about why Linux is so much better. It's biased opinions like this that make the rest of us Linux 'evangelists' look bad, but here's my take on things:

I bit the bullet and bought a SOHO-level / entry-level NAS unit for the home office. I reviewed several units online for the past month or so and finally decided that the QNAP TS-109 Pro II did everything I'd need.

"But Ian," you say. "You run Linux, why not do it all there?"

Over the past while, I've been working on a build-it-yourself interface for configuring my SpamAssassin Training script.

Keep in mind, I'm not the author of SpamAssassin, nor its included utility called "sa-learn". My Perl script simply tells the sa-learn utility how to find your mailboxes to train it on spam/non-spam.

Changed my mind on the wordpress setup. It looked nicer, but got way too many spam users registering and trying to hack into stuff. I'll just keep things the way they were.

One more round of blog changes coming up in the next few weeks. Elizabeth and I are going to be parents Any Day Now™ and I'll be revamping my blogs and static content into separate areas for more of a personal blog, wiki for tech tutorials, etc.