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                      I think I'll go crawl into bed now

Not only did I lose everything related to my Stupid Twitter Project [1] due
to a misplaced rm command (and that was due to a misunderstanding on my part
of how git [2] works, which is another rant for another time), but I also
found out why the graylist implementations [3] (at least under Postfix) use a
database backend—because except for the “master programmers” who wrote
Postfix, externally written software by us mere peons is so bloody buggy that
any external programs are only run once—or in other words, each incoming
email spawns yet another process to do the graylist check.

Sigh.

Either I go with a database backed graylist program, or I create an
additional [DELETED-shim-DELETED] piece of software to connect to the daemon
I just finished.

I swear our industry rewards Rube Goldberg [4] [DELETED-contraptions-DELETED]
programming.

And to even further demoralize me, writing this entry revealed a rather bad
display bug in mod_blog [5], which was introduced when I made a few changes
[6] the other day.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/07/18.2
[2] http://git.or.cz/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/08/16.1
[4] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Rube+Goldberg&search=Search
[5] https://boston.conman.org/about/
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/08/13.2

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