Ideally every email I send would be plain text. Many of the people I email send to me HTML-based email For a decade an annoyance I had with Outlook was when pasting text from the clipboard, it would include source formatting. So, if I copied the title of a blog post to make it “Paste…
Public Service Announcement: Just like documents you place in a physical trash for safe keeping may disappear overnight, do not put emails you may need to keep your email client’s trash can folder. (No, this did not happen to me. Just saw a user’s rant.)
Virus and worm writers suck… This stuff gets really annoying really quickly. The latest worm picks on Microsoft SQL server. Don’t think we have many installations here. However, between 4 and 6 AM on a Sunday morning we had an average 30% utilization of our bandwith? That is down from 80 – 100% utilization yesterday afternoon. Could…
Got a kick out of these emails. My favorite parts are bolded. Hey there, I’m nnnnnn. I got your email address from a friend and thought I’d get in touch. I’m kind of new to this whole thing, the internet and meeting people on the internet. I thought I’d tell you a little about myself,…
I push my computer very hard… Average around 500 emails a day. Usually have no less than 10 windows open after an hour of using it. Average probably 20 during most of the day. My average memory usage is 300 MB. I do try to avoid some performance hogs. For instance, I am not running…
Two days in a row I have gotten emails that look like people testing whether or not I have a legitimate email address. Wish there was a plugin for my email program in which my filter could use to send a fake bounce message. The database works!! I actually connected to it. Now to create…
It seems that it is snowing outside. At least the South Georgia definition of snowing. The ground is too warm for it to stick… 🙁 Back in 7th grade it snowed like this and we got out of school. Somehow I doubt we will get out of work. Of course that day after school I…
Due to some email server issues, my home page at this time is not available… Should be back some time this morning. Everything is cool now… *whew*! Here is maybe my new favorite site… Science Fiction and Fantasy World with a review of the start of the A Song of Fire and Ice series A Game of Thrones, A…