I'm Rambling Again
I found out today that I can still make a $1000 bonus if I pass the Microsoft MCSD certification. There was some question about it. Microsoft is changing their certifications to go more inline with their Visual Studio 2005 products. So we might have been changing the bonus system here as well. But things are going to stay the same this year. So, just like I passed the MSAD certification last year for a nice bonus, I’ll be hitting the MCSD exams soon.
In news of the miniscule: I wonder why spam seems to run in cycles. There was a time a couple months ago when all the spam I received was for ‘natural male enhancement’, then came a few weeks of refinancing my mortgage. A barrage of ‘help, I’m in Nigeria and need you to help me launder some cash’, emails seemed to follow. Then another spate of ‘how to go all night’ pills. The last couple days have been emails featuring lotteries. For a small fee, such and such a firm will enter me in some 200 lotteries around the world. You can’t help but win. Blah blah blah. I think there is just a big tickler file somewhere at spam headquarters that dictates what kind of spam is going out that week.
And speaking of spam, I have Comcast high speed internet at home. It’s a nice speedy connection. I also use Comcast.net as my email provider. Although Comcast says they use spam detection software, they have to have the worst system I’ve ever used. It doesn’t catch anything. Every morning I find a dozen new pieces of obvious spam sitting in my inbox. I write to Comcast support and ask, why can’t such obvious mail be caught and sent to the spam bucket. They send back a standard response about spam mailers not being Comcast customers so there is nothing they can do about it. 90% of the mail doesn’t even have me as the recipient, my email address is just one of the multitude included in the BCC of the mail. Why can’t I click a box and say to dump any mail which I am not the listed in the ‘To:’ section into the spam bucket? Seems pretty simple. Free services like Yahoo and Hotmail do so much better at policing their email system.
Ok, I’m going to go now and worry about other mundane stuff.
In news of the miniscule: I wonder why spam seems to run in cycles. There was a time a couple months ago when all the spam I received was for ‘natural male enhancement’, then came a few weeks of refinancing my mortgage. A barrage of ‘help, I’m in Nigeria and need you to help me launder some cash’, emails seemed to follow. Then another spate of ‘how to go all night’ pills. The last couple days have been emails featuring lotteries. For a small fee, such and such a firm will enter me in some 200 lotteries around the world. You can’t help but win. Blah blah blah. I think there is just a big tickler file somewhere at spam headquarters that dictates what kind of spam is going out that week.
And speaking of spam, I have Comcast high speed internet at home. It’s a nice speedy connection. I also use Comcast.net as my email provider. Although Comcast says they use spam detection software, they have to have the worst system I’ve ever used. It doesn’t catch anything. Every morning I find a dozen new pieces of obvious spam sitting in my inbox. I write to Comcast support and ask, why can’t such obvious mail be caught and sent to the spam bucket. They send back a standard response about spam mailers not being Comcast customers so there is nothing they can do about it. 90% of the mail doesn’t even have me as the recipient, my email address is just one of the multitude included in the BCC of the mail. Why can’t I click a box and say to dump any mail which I am not the listed in the ‘To:’ section into the spam bucket? Seems pretty simple. Free services like Yahoo and Hotmail do so much better at policing their email system.
Ok, I’m going to go now and worry about other mundane stuff.