Friday June 13 2003 Montreal The other day I finished importing five years of email into a database so I could do full text searches on it. Because I have a potty-mouth, I discovered that out of a possible 32, 000 messages fewer than 400 contain both the words "fuck" and "shit". <snip /> Part of my struggle ... was trying to remember how to set the auto-increment counter for a field in one of the database tables. Would that I were able to find what I needed in the docs, but I knew that the answer was buried somewhere in an old email message. So I typed... $> findmail -date 2002 -term '(auto increment)' ...and, lo, there it was! Some day, I'll make paintings about all this crap. You'll see...