Spammers
Posted: Thu 16 August, 2007 Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism, Weirdness 3 Comments »This morning, I opened up my email to discover over a thousand returned emails to my business domain name. Ah, not good.
Turns out, some darling spammer had decided to use my domain name as the ‘from’ address. It’s not the first time it’s happened (although that one was from the old D4D™ email address) and they’ve all been deleted now – along with a change to the server settings to stop me seeing them again – but there’s very little else I can do about it, unfortunately. It’s just one of those things.
Mind you, the bit that did amuse me was that I also received one of those spam emails to my normal email address.
Historical
Posted: Wed 15 August, 2007 Filed under: D4D™, Weirdness Leave a comment »Yesterday, I did a search – yes, OK, I was bored – for Lyle D4D in Google, just to see what came up. And wow, there’s a lot of stuff in there. Not all of it connects to yours truly, of course, but at the same time there’s also one hell of a lot that does – including some bits I’d forgotten.
For instance, there was all the kerfuffle when Wileys made me change the site name from “Destruction for Dummies” for legal reasons (Sadly, the initial takedown notice disappeared when I moved away from Haloscan comments – another long time ago, now)
But among the bits I’d forgotten was the “How to Swear” post that I guest-wrote over on Uborka back in June 2004. And I have to say, I’ve thorough enjoyed re-reading that one!
Indicators
Posted: Tue 14 August, 2007 Filed under: 1BEM, Customer Services, Cynicism 4 Comments »Recently, a friend of a friend went out and bought a new car – well, new to them, not brand-new. Now, at which of these points would you decide to not buy this vehicle ? (I should point out, one of these is a joke – the rest all happened)
- The vehicle in question is seven years old, and has only 24,000 miles on the clock
- The dealer knocks the car down from £6,500 to £5,000
- The offered warranty on the vehicle is one month.
- The dealer says he was thinking of painting it bright yellow, it was such a damn lemon
- The brakes seize on the car three days after purchase
So – when would you have decided not to buy it?
Taxing
Posted: Mon 13 August, 2007 Filed under: Customer Services, Domestic, Getting Organised, Thoughts, Travel 1 Comment »I’ve now had my car nearly six months. Which, of course, means that it’s also coming up to the expiry of the six month road-tax I got with it.
I got the reminder for the road tax last week, and decided to have a go at the entire Road Tax online thing – and it all went really painlessly. Herself had tried it last month for her car, and hadn’t been able to get through the process, so I was wondering how good it would be, but yeah, the entire process was easy – and a lot less time-consuming than going to get the disc at the Post Office!
Monday 13
Posted: Mon 13 August, 2007 Filed under: Cynicism Leave a comment »It’s just never going to be a good sign, is it?
Monday the 13th.
Most people worry about Friday 13th being a bad omen. I still maintain that Monday the 13th is far worse…
Real Men
Posted: Sun 12 August, 2007 Filed under: Thoughts Leave a comment »Watching BBC’s “Real Men” documentary tonight has been really interesting – it’s been about guys who work on the North Sea oil industry, and spend a month in a diving chamber, pressurised to the depth they’ll be working at so that the guys don’t need to keep woring about the bends, decompression stops etc.
It’s certainly a job I couldn’t do – I couldn’t spend that length of time in a small confined space. Also, a month spent at the pressure equivalent of 200m, which is scary. (As they said, it’s just about the height of two Big Bens)
But at the same time, man what comedy value – the month at the bottom is spent breathing helium mix, rather than air – so half the programme involved them all talking in Micky-Mouse voices. Deadly serious, but very funny.
Competition
Posted: Sat 11 August, 2007 Filed under: Cynicism 2 Comments »Damn, I never thought I’d find myself hoping Kanye West sells lots of albums.
Wonders never cease.