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...DIED. EUDORA WELTY, 92, luminous Southern author; in Jackson, Miss. Welty's keen sense of observation fueled not just her writing but her photographs. She was immortalized too when a software designer named his e-mail program Eudora after her. See Eulogy, below...
...spring day, I was walking with EUDORA WELTY through a little shopping mall. It was her birthday, April 13. There was a surprise party waiting at a bookstore down the way. She was 86. As we walked rather slowly along the glass storefronts, we came to where a wide, smiling, pink-faced man was inflating colorful balloons. As each balloon filled and fattened, the cylinder emitted quite a loud whoosh of air. Eudora looked about to find the sound. "Balloons," I said. I had her hand. "Someone's apparently having a do." "Oh," she said. Those luminous, pale blue eyes...
...minor moment, yes--and not, goodness knows, Eudora Welty in a nutshell. The truly grand among us don't fit into nutshells. Yet it exemplifies the continual, transforming and affectionate commerce Eudora maintained with the living world. To take a walk or a Saturday drive with Eudora was to have the world narrated to you, recalibrated and transformed into language that was surprising, sometimes shocking, always sympathetic, frequently hilarious and full of perception, wonder and delight. This commerce produced 20 or so extraordinary books, a world of adoring readers, a house full of prizes and a life lived solely, though...
Trouble is, those dastardly spammers are putting their ads in ever more innocent-seeming packets, like the one from my Australian friend. If every spam looked like that, I figured, I would lose the war. Already, the complexity of my filter list--with 300 entries--was making Eudora run like a tortoise...
...leading software tools are Spam Buster contactplus.com/spam and SpamKiller spamkiller.com) Both tap quietly into your e-mail server every few minutes to check new messages against a blacklist of known spammers and subject lines. I was impressed by the range of their databases. This is what my Eudora filters would have looked like had I played cat and mouse for a few more centuries...