As much as it pains me to do it, I'm switching off anonymous commenting on this journal. I've just returned from a week away and I see you've all taken it upon yourselves to offer me Thai kick-boxing equipment, weight control mints, permanent laser hair removal (but I'll have that laser off you if possible, thanks) and escorts for my next visit to ( Read more... )

Since the day Miles was born we have lovingly referred to him as Mr. Miles, because as far as we're concerned he has always been a very cool kid ( Read more... )

dougs mentioned something along these lines yesterday: I've had some spam that has been sent out from my @livejournal.com messaging address returned, and then forwarded to my usual address.* This indicates that my LJ address is being used to send spam; also, recently in my inbox I've had plenty of spam addressed in a way that indicates it's been sent ( Read more... )

The Scottish Hare Krishna spam that has been going around for several years has finally reached my inbox:

Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ....
That which brings the highest happiness!!

Not trying to sell anything, just three lines of chanting. Wikipedia even has an entry, as does Urban Dictionary.

Gacked from claire_weaver:


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Scambaiting...

(More entertaining pics here, from guitar god Adrian Legg's on-the-road stories)

According to Hurwitz Platelet, ( Thailand are giving away citizenship for free if you become a monk raking retrorocket qpfg glasswort )

I rarely (if ever) click on spam, but I was curious how "Domingo Hancock" was going to try and sell me a spam filter.

( Calling me Marylou is not a good start. )

My e-mail accounts are back. Took 'em three days to fix the problem over a Bank Holiday weekend, but what can you expect when you don't pay for it?

It's also time to total up last month's spam... another big fall: 933, compared to April's 1,374 and March's 2,794. Please explain, someone. I never received a reply from Macunlimited when I enquired ( Read more... )

For the last year I've been keeping a log of the monthly amount of spam I've received at my previous (now unused) e-mail address, since I only really started getting spam at the beginning of last year. April 2003 that address saw a grand total of 41, and this increased monthly until March 2004 when I received 2,794. Still tiny by the_magician's standards, but ( Read more... )