Been a while, hasn't it? People are missing me so much that I actually got a dozen messages via the contact page. Some of them even wanted me to buy cutting edge drugs for appendage expansion. $#@#ing spammers. Stay off my contact page, will ya!! Grr.

If there's a lucrative business on the internet you can get into right now, it's spamfighting. I'm not kidding, considering the pervasiveness and scale of the problem. Approximately 80% of all email is spam (I also learnt of identical figures yesterday from a Yahoo! talk on campus). Combine that with SPIM, phishing, referer spam and the millions of other methods these creeps use to get you to buy the latest discounted stock of levitra they have, and you'll realize that we're pretty much in deep trouble, as far as the future of the internet goes. So if you're a youngster testing the waters for a CS career; text analytics, public key message encryption, and Turingeque human detection are areas you might want to look at.