My wife said:

You know, I'm thinking of writing an e-mail to [COW-ORKER 1] and [COW-ORKER 2] just to let them know how much I appreciate that they can spell.

Until [INTERN] came, I had no idea that it could be painful to read through CVS commits.

Looking back, I see a twelve-day gap in my archives.

No particular reason. There's been a lot of work, and one of our main client's servers suffered a bit of a meltdown (root disk failed). We wound up reinstalling the OS from media.

Then there was a feint at upgrading to MySQL. But they decided to stay with Access.

Then there was miscellaneous other stuff. We bought a car (2002 Ford Focus wagon, blue, 10Mm on the odometer). Our housemate moved out, and there was much rejoicing. The cat population of our house halved.

We had several momentary power outages that brought down the server, and when the server reboots the web server doesn't come back up unless the site was shut down cleanly.

I'm not sure I have what it takes to do the blogging thing. I am too inhibited to share actual intimate details of my life online, but on the other hand I'm too polite to bitch about people who might actually find my blog. And I just don't desire celebrity enough to blog religiously.

Bummer.

The new trick of spammers is to include unique text in the text/plain portion of a mime/multipart message, and the actual spam in the text/html part which follows.

Their source for unique text? Etext repositories!

Since my mailer displays only the text/plain part, I get very strange spam:

Subject: Samuel, We Help You Find The Lowest Refinancing Rates

MUCEDORUS. Oh, master mouse, I pray you what office might you bear in the court? MOUSE. Marry, sir, I am a rusher of the stable. MUCEDORUS.

That's from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus, attributed to William Shakespeare.

I would never have known the play existed, but for this spam.