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Things I'll spend money on if I get a job

I'd like to make a contribution to Robin Keir for his excellent K9 Bayesian spam filter. It's well over 99.5% accurate now, no question (disclaimer I just remembered - I have some blacklist entries set up in it as well, so it's not all due to Bayesian analysis). I turned on SpamAssassin on the server side just to check it out, and not only was it far less accurate, but it made K9 less accurate. Stuff that I think would usually score as 9x% spammy came back in the 80's. My dad, my brother, and I all use it, and it's a great program. Over the past three to four days or so, as I haven't been clearing my spam folder in my e-mail client because of finals, I've gotten well over 500 600 spams which I can look at whenever I want, thanks to K9. Oh, and this thing gives almost NO false positives. It's really excellent.

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And lots of books from my Amazon wish list:

• Hacker's Delight
• Code Reading
• C++ FAQs
• Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
• Operating System Concepts
• Structured Computer Organization
• Computer Organization and Design (I'll have to choose one or two of these computer organization books )
• Garbage Collection : Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management
• Memory Management: Algorithms and Implementation in C/C++
• Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think
• Also the new Lua book, and maybe Types and Programming Languages
• And maybe the books on Exceptional C++
• And maybe Martin Fowler's book on Refactoring

By the way, if you're thinking of buying any of these computer books, I'd recommend taking a look at Bookpool before Amazon. They have great prices and great service.

Part of the reason I'm creating this list is because I've been making a mental list of people I want to contribute to and I'm forgetting.

Ah yes, I'd like to buy something from Cox & Forkum, they do great work.

I might also hit the tip jar for sites I read every day, like Instapundit and again for LGF

I'd also like to contribute to Answers in Genesis again to help them get their museum finished on time.

I've also never contributed to Jews for Jesus, even though I've been on their mailing list for a long time, so I'd like to do that once I get a job.

And of course, I'd like to start paying off my credit card debt and student loans.

I think I'm forgetting some things. If I think of them I'll add them here later.

Heh, in the long term, maybe I'd like to spend some money on enough parts to build a computer good enough to play Unreal Tournament again. They have UT2004 coming out soon too.

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