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29Dec/060

Buying New Earphones

The last few days I was thinking about buying new earphones. I currently use some Sony EX70 earbuds which have a nice sound but a few weeks ago I lost one of these silicon ear tips so I had to use a bigger one which doesn't fit right in my ear. Also, they seem to disintegrate (ok, they had a rough time behind them :) ) slowly. So it's time for some new ones.

26Dec/060

Recently Listened

As I updated [Synergy](http://wincent.com/a/products/synergy-classic/) to version 3.1 today (although this version is already out for a few weeks) I saw that Wincent integrated support for [Audioscrobbler](http://www.audioscrobbler.net/). That is great as I already use this technology with [Last.fm](http://www.last.fm).
So now my account is filled with track information from the Last.fm client and [iTunes](http://www.apple.com/itunes/).
And, fortunately, there is also a very nice [WordPress](http://www.wordpress.org) Plugin named [Scrobbler](http://leflo.de/projects/scrobbler) (created by [Florian Kriener](http://www.leflo.de)) to display recently played tracks as you can see at the bottom of the sidebar. :)

11Dec/060

Weblogs About Mac OS X Development

If you're a mac developer you certainly subscribed some weblogs about Cocoa development with OS X.
[Scott Stevenson](http://www.theocacao.com) created a nice new website called [Cocoa Blogs](http://www.cocoablogs.com). It bundles weblogs and tutorials from well known OS X developers.
The place to go for your daily Cocoa dose.

Great idea and very cool design.
Thank you, Scott.

10Dec/060

Implementing Greylisting with Exim

Due to the increasing amount of annoying SPAM mails there exist many techniques to reduce that junk.
One very successful approach is called "[Greylisting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting)".