tech: September 2001 Archives

I'm at work today. Which means of course, I am stressed. Unreasonable clients with their oxymoronic requests. Coworkers, traffic, bills, cold weather, bad food, long hours, ...

life.

Okay. I'm pissed. One of my friends has given out my email address to spammers.

I probably have a thousand email addresses out there. I use a new one every time I sign up for a new service or newsletter, or purchase a new product online. Since I am the only owner of this domain name, they all get filtered back to me. This means, When I start getting spam, all I have to do is check the "To:" field to see what address it's coming to, and thereby which service is selling my address (MP3.com being the worst offender). It also means if I get too much spam from that address, I can just block everything coming in at that address.

But this morning, a marketing letter arrived with my personal address on it. The address I only give out to friends and family. I don't want this shit starting to show up there. It's not like spam is hard to catch... the authors are ussually about as subtle as a hurricane. But still...

Realistically, I don't think anyone gave out my address. Most likely it was pinched when a friend sent me an online postcard or something. But there it is.

Anyway...

I finished Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Not quite as ... epic as I would have expected from such a famous book. But still good. Pretty damn funny in some parts. I read those last few paragraphs, and can't imagine how some of my friends live their life in such a haze.

Someone linked to my site. hot damn. I've had a web site for 7 years now. And for all i know, there may be a shitload of links to it, out there. But this is the first one I know of from a stranger (at least I don't recognize her). From her writing, she is a college student in Pennsylvania, and much more eloquent than I am.

Much better than being linked to by webpagesthatsuck.com.

(See ... this little paragraph is here just cause you can't end a blog with a link or it screws up your whole page).

Okay... blogger just went skitzo on me, resulting in my post from yesterday getting zapped. Bah... gives me a chance to rewrite it later I guess.

Could anyone tell me why this was linked in my browsers tool bar? I can't even remember the last time I went to macwarehouse. But this link has been there forever now.

Great, now I'm a digitalslob too!

Hot fuck'n damn.

Got the comments working here in my journal. Means all you people who normally insult my writing to my face can now let the whole world know how you feel by posting your comments right here.