If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today we break the 3,000 message mark on the spam count. 3,274 spams in five days to be precise, of which 847 arrived today. Among them were seven genuine messages - two from mailing lists, two identical messages from […]

Ooh, look - two new MacUser people blogs (here and here), both using the excellent Mindsay, which allows you to post using iChat.
I wish you could post to Movable Type that way, as it’s far easier than logging in and typing your entry into a series of windows.
I’ve done a hunt for posting to Movable […]

Day four of the spam count (out of seven) and the tally is roughly 10 times the total for the whole week when I did this back in 2002. Back then I thought 200-odd was pretty shocking, but it’s nothing compared to this.
On a brighter note, today’s payload included 16 genuine emails, but on a […]

Dip me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians…
There’s a line you don’t expect to hear at the opera.
…what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fucking fucking fucking fuck…
There’s another one.
In an attempt to get at least vaguely close to culture, Paul and I met after work and went to Jerry Springer, the […]

A record in two ways today. First, the lowest spam count of the week so far (it’s been on a steady decline so I’m wondering whether spam peaks on a Monday), and second, the highest number of genuine emails mixed up among it: 25 from friends and colleagues.
Looking back on when I did this experiment […]

Yes, we do write for a living. Yes, we can spell. We’re just not so good at sticking things up in the right order, OK.

Compared to yesterday, today was a fairly quiet day on the spam front. 530 messages in total, of which six were genuine. Two of those real ones were duplicated, so there was really only five. Knock off another one because it was a test we were running at work and you have four. That’s just […]

Well, it’s about time I took a stock of the spam count again. I do it every year and I reckon an update it in order, so instead of just deleting I’ll keep track of the amount of spam I receive over the next week. Today gets us off to a good start with a […]

Looks like the postal service is changing around here. It’s being improved my ‘merging’ the first and second posts into just one delivery. It makes no difference to me as I’m always out when both collections come anyway, but it’s interesting to see how the Royal Mail justifies the move, claiming they are still one […]

Over at the Words Project, yesterday’s posting about the Express translates as this:
I don