Spam at work is boring and clogs your in-box. Especially in this workplace.

Course, most of the spam here is internal, sent by moronic idiots people clicking “Reply All” rather than just “Reply”.

I’ve sent a few mail responses (to all just to make the point) since I started here, highlighting – if sarcastically – this habit. For example, in response to an enthusiastic announcement to all-and-sundry that a particular application had been completed, I responded-to-all thus:

Waytogo! I’m so impressed I’ll let everyone know!

Yesterday, one of the big bosses wrote a message asking that people don’t click what I am now calling The SPAM button.

However, it has been ignored by all.

Today, I got bored with clicking delete repeatedly (I’m getting RSI of the forefinger as a result of this), and as tempting as it is to write a message to all dripping sarcasm and pointing-out my current forefinger injury, it seemed far easier (and very Lisa 4.0) to create a catch-all mail rule, which I am calling Team [MYCOMPANY] SPAM.

And it works… oh it works… and in the last 30 seconds it’s grabbed 5 incoming messages.

Finally, something that MS Outlook can actually do without crapping-out.

These guys are one of the biggest advertisements for what’s wrong with religion.

Rabid, fundamentalist… not muslim… christians who’d put a bullet in you if they could get away with it.

Like Douglas Adams said:

“…nearly 2,000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change…”

Where exactly is the message of “the great white saviour” (middle-eastern origin, but don’t let that be an impediment to the Jesus-is-a-white-man industry) in the Westboro Baptist Church? Cast not the first stone, anyone?

Hah.

DRM is dead. Long may it remain that way…

However, not to be outdone, Sony music (among others) are now resurrecting the long-thought-dead concept of watermarking.

And MS, that champion of the rights of the consumer at its own cost*, has patented El Dorado, which will supposedly remain with music for the length of its lifespan (in the case of most pop music, about thirty seconds after it hits music shops; what’s the point?!)

The death of the music and TV industries can’t come fast enough IMO. Even the movie makers are jumping on the internet bandwagon. 

As a good friend has put it: the patriarchy is dying, best get out of the way.

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* Joke, Joyce.

HP* -  Shite!

MS** – CRAP

Why? Installing printers. Try installing a printer on an HP laptop… a printer that is connected to an apple airport network… and you’ve got hair ripping fun for the whole freaking family.

Here’s one of the many sites that I’ve just found — at 11pm at night while in bed — to potentially find a cause for the issue.

Bottom line, however, was that my plan to be in bed by 9pm has gone right out the damn window.

However, I have discovered — or managed to put into words — something that has dogged me for some time.

Which is this: I take failure personally.

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*or as I now call them, Hewlett CRAPard

** Great piece of dialogue in “The Last of the Time Lords” (SPOILER ALERT), from the professor trying to get a computer to work: “Whoever thought we’d miss Bill Gates.”. I L O L’d.

The fire alarm just went off here at work. And went on… and on… it got to the point where you wondered if the pain of dying in a smoke-filled building was a positive compared to the relentless 2DB Beeeeep—Beeeeep—Beeeeep of the alarm.

Perhaps not.

And not a fireman in sight. Dammit.

RIAA sues someone else. Surprise, surprise. Recording Industry Association of America? I think not: Reprehensible Idiotic Anal Arseholes I would suggest. But wait… what’s that sound?!

Wibbly wobbly… timey-wimey!

…we find ourselves in a strange future… where we find an RIAA approved CD case.

According to this report, the NHS is considering reducing the subsidy it pays drug companies for their drugs.

According to the author, a better way to reduce expenditure would be to “dangle a carrot” rather than threatening a big stick.

I say Fuck Them; drug companies make billions. So bloody what if someone turns around and says “we’re not paying these prices anymore”? What are they going to do, go somewhere else? Refuse to supply?

Disappointing.

That’s what I call the Kensington Expert Mouse trackball.

It’s my own fault, of course. I bought it sight-unseen. That is, I’d seen the site and thought that it couldn’t possibly be that big.

Well, big it is. Huge in fact. I was hoping to be able to use it portably, for the laptop among other things. Not This Little Black Duck.

4-5 inches long by 4 inches wide, is freaking enormous by mouse standards, not to mention trackball standards.

I was finding the Logitech trackball a bit big, but the Kensington one makes my current trackball look positively tiny. Side-by-side, the Logitech one is half the size and half the weight. It’s also got a smoother ride on the ball, and while the Kensington one has a natty scroll wheel (around the ball), it’s not that big a deal.

I think I’m going to stick the kensington one on eBay as soon as I get home.

Note to self: don’t buy sight unseen. Unless it’s Apple stuff

Well, the official word from MS is this:

Note  The default location is a hidden folder. To use Windows Explorer to navigate to this folder, you must first turn on the display of hidden folders. In Windows Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Folder Options. On the View tab, under Advanced Settings, under Files and Folders, under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders. If you want to see all file name extensions, clear the Hide extensions for known file types check box under Files and Folders. Hidden folders appear dimmed to indicate they are not typical folders.

Now that was simple wasn’t it?  Except this information is bunk; I’ve got Hidden Files and Folders turned on already. Morons.

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