[Crossposted from Appleseed BlogWhile I do almost all of my work - and maybe a little too much of my play - on a MacBook laptop, I keep an older desktop computer in my office for tasks that are better left to sessile machines. I seldom use it interactively, though, and its display - balanced on the back edge of my desk - usually shows only ( Read more... )

A colleague from my past had a bike accident yesterday and went to hospital. He got roughed up real bad and needed surgery, so that happened today, and he's now improving rapidly. I know this through frequent updates that his wife's been making to a carepages.com page ( Read more... )

The Bad Astronomer got a great piece of spam I haven't seen before, basically saying "Send me money or I WILL KILL YOU." With a great little story that the author is an assassin who's been paid to whack the recipient, but decided to give them one chance to outbid the client before he follows through. Awesome ( Read more... )

I have figured out why a lot of expected email's been completely unfindable, not even in my spam folder. It's because it's been falling into jmac.org's spam folder, which is different from my mail gmail account's spamtrap, now that I've started to let Gmail handle all jmac.org's mail directly. Only the survivors of the jmac.org spam filter were ( Read more... )

Today was wacky. A kerfuffle resulted from volity.com's highly intolerant mailserver refusing an important mail from a client several days ago, due to the fact that the mail was sent from a hotel with a reputation for spam. The client didn't see the bounce message that the server instantly shot back at them, so they didn't know that I never read ( Read more... )

If you are not the intended recipient, please do not retain, copy, use, or otherwise disclose the information contained in this message. Instead, please delete it and notify the sender.

Has this ever happened in the history of email?

"When you are finished recording, you may hang up, or press star for more options. (pause) To leave a numeric page ( Read more... )

You get an email that actually looks like it may have been composed by a native English speaker welcoming you to a web-based community you may not necessarily recall asking to join, and providing a raw numeric IP address (uh oh) as a confirmation link ( Read more... )

I'm shutting down all of Volity's SourceForge-hosted mailing lists. Discussions' been moved over to the web forums, anyway.

In light of more frequent well-intentioned mistaken-identity emails, I updated my contact page last week with giant-type messages about who I wasn't. It still doesn't always work ( Read more... )

The painstakingly rendered ASCII art and precise columnar formatting in your email signature doesn't work anymore.

It hasn't in a long time. Sorry. I know, I miss it too.