Symbolic Forest : email

Advice

In which we pass something on

Published at 5:48 pm on August 8th, 2007

Filed under: Geekery, Unbelievable.

Do not forward this email.

Keyword noise: chain, chain letter, email.

Flooding

In which Exchange causes problems

Published at 10:02 pm on January 31st, 2007

Filed under: Geekery, Technology.

Microsoft, everyone’s favourite evil behemoth, have been getting as much press as they can in the past few days to push their new operating system. At the same time, though, their software has been making my life a drag. And there’s nothing at all I can do about it.

Keyword noise: bug, email, Microsoft Exchange, Windows.

Responding

In which we answer back

Published at 11:21 am on January 6th, 2007

Filed under: Dear Diary.

I gave you my vaguest possible list of things to change this year, on Monday. I’ve thought of something to add, though, something slightly more practical. I’m going to try to respond to people quicker.

Keyword noise: answering, email, new year, resolutions, responsive.

Years and years

In which we remember early days on the Internet

Published at 1:23 pm on September 19th, 2006

Filed under: Geekery, Technology.

Hello to internet friend Angeldust, who starts at university today as a mature student. How she’ll cope with having to be mature, I really have no idea.

On sucking

In which we discuss some design flaws in Lotus Notes

Published at 12:52 pm on September 13th, 2006

Filed under: Geekery, Linkery, Technology.

Spent quite a while last night reading Lotus Notes Sucks^***, a collection of reasons why, as you could probably guess, Lotus Notes sucks. I have to use the thing at work every day, and it is indeed truly awful; but I didn’t really like the site. It lists 80-something superficial bad things about Lotus Notes, without listing any of the truly awful things about it.

Keyword noise: computing, databases, email, Lotus Notes, software.

Bounce

In which there’s been a flood

Published at 10:43 pm on September 4th, 2006

Filed under: Dear Diary.

Well, that was a good holiday. I’m back again, and the only dark shadow on the horizon is the thought of being back at the office tomorrow. There’s already one bad omen: getting home and opening my email, to discover some evil person has been sending out junk mail with my return address on it. Six thousand bounce messages were in my inbox and my spam folder, which leaves me wondering just how many emails did get through. If you’ve emailed me and I’ve deleted your mail by accident, I’m very sorry.

Keyword noise: email, holiday, junk, relaxation, spam.