The phone hasn’t exactly been ringing off the hook at MT.Net headquarters, at least for job offers. I was thinking the holiday weekend was gumming up the works, but no nibbles came in for my resume yesterday.

I’ve got a few small consulting jobs on the way, though, which could help tide things over. Maybe I should just jump back into consulting with both feet and make something of it? I prefer that course rather than depending on someone else to make a move for me.

My personality is such that I prefer to take control of my destiny. Striking out on my own beats striking out with someone else.

I’ve been noticing a lot of the spam that makes it by my ASSP Bayesian filter-based anti-spam application has been using text from sites selling school essays. The spams will quote a large swath of text from these essays to fool the spamfilters into thinking its legitimate text.

Now all I need to do is to figure out how to use that text to detect spam. Putting it into the spam-text database probably won’t work because the text is too generic. It’s easy for a human to find the source of the text (hint: Google), but how would I create an app to automatically identify the swiped text as essay text?

Ahmad Chalabi, until recently Our Man In Iraq, reportedly told Iranian officials that the U.S. was reading its mail. The dude has been buddy-buddy with Iran for far too long, and he’s strung the U.S. along the whole time.

Iran has been responsible for a large number of terrorist events in the Middle East. Thanks to Chalabi, we may see many, many more.

I thought this was funny. The Pros and Cons of John Kerry’s Vice President Choices. A little light political humor.