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Returned to Mildreds for the first time in months. It’s moved to nice new premises just by the office, with a glass roof that lets the sun shine in through the day, and the lights of the kitchen windows in the overlooking flats at night. Had yummy sweet potato burgers and vegetable dumplings with fat salty chips.
People were queueing out the door to get in, and we stood for a while, too, before we got a table, but apart from that and the noisy woman on the next table who alternately slapped the tabletop and snorted laughter through her nose it was so, so worth it.
Came home to flick through a telly guide - a largely redundant exercise for me. On the front were pictures of the next 10 ‘celebs’ to appear in I’m a Celebrity… Get me out of here, but I only recognised two of them. I’m not sure whether that says more about the teeny amount of TV I watch or the level of ‘celebrity’ these people actually posess.
Unbelievably they are going to have 22 hours a day of ITV2’s schedule devoted to their predictably mediocre antics. Live coverage from midnight until 11am every day, then a repeat of the whole lot during the day while the ‘celebrities’ sleep. Hmmm…
Still, it was a nice way to end a busy day full of proofing pages and commissioning features. The months seem to be slipping by very quickly now, and I’m working on two issues at once at the moment. The spam quotient is ramping up, too. I had the most poorly targetted piece for a long time today, offering to improve the marketing of my chiropractor business. I don’t even know what a chiropractor does, never mind why they’d want to enhance their marketing.
We have a nice new monkey hat in the office to add to our collection. Very heavy, though - squashes your face.
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It’s just struck me how much you look like Andrew Marr in that pic!
On spam, there’s an interesting article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2969783.stm
On ‘where it comes from’.
I use SpamNet (www.cloudmark.com), the (legitimate) P2P spam blocking application which plugs into Outlook XP to block spam, amounts of which have begun to noticeably increase. They’ve moved to a paid for monthly subscription model now, but if you get hold of a ‘beta’ version, they won’t turn it off “ever”, the press release says - I feel smug when I see my ’spam’ folder filling up and my inbox remaining refreshingly clear, even with the odd stray piece that comes into my Hotmail which is also sync’ed with Outlook.
No version available for Linux though
• Posted at 10:27 pm on April 24th, 2003 by Rajesh in South Harrow.