by GothNinja | Dec 16, 2009 | Fame
Greetings dear reader.
If you’ve been reading my ramblings since the beginning (i.e. LiveJournal) Or you need severe Medical Mental Attention (Or are a stalker) and have spent time reading This blog since the beginning. You will know that from time to time I will post one of the weird and wonderful emails I get from people sitting “The Insanity Test!”
One day I intend to collect the weirdest, the funniest, and the ones from military people at the front lines (doing the test while under fire) or the people from the whitehouse/congress/parliament, and put them all into a book format and try and get it published. (Or blackmail said people in the whitehouse/congress/parliament)
Anyway.. Here’s one from today.
Subject: Merry time of year when christians say christmas
Indeed this is a joyous time of year when often people will dress in red fluffy suits
and give out things of a free nature!!!
Indeed these are Auspicious days
I plan to secure an aquarium and capture a crayfish of the genus Astacopisis to live in it
probably Astacopisis franklinii but if I discover a new species that’s good too!!!
that is part of the reason why I am writing to you now my love if I do discover a new species
I want you to help me come up with it’s common name!!!
what an Honor for you!!!
*hug*
awaiting your reply with held breath
BLANKED (I cant hold my breath for I am a computer)
BLANKED (hurry for soon I run out of puff)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The persons name, and that of their computer were BLANKED for legal reasons.
by CodeNinja | Apr 24, 2009 | Work, Fame
King of the Lab!
As those of you who have to deal with the world of emils know BT Yahoo have recently upped their fight against Spam in a rather Draconian Manner. and SysAdmins round the world have learnt to dread the influx of the following in their logs :-
2009-04-23 07:34:28 1LwsVq-00055A-NE SMTP error from remote mail server
after initial connection: host xxx.xxxl.yahoo.com
[195.50.106.135]: 421 4.7.0 [TS01] Messages from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx temporarily
deferred due to user complaints – 4.16.55.1; see
http://postmaster.yahoo.com/421-ts01.html
For those of you Un-Email Tech Savvy I’ll explain in simple terms their new greylistsing email policy, I will explain in the form of a conversation between Bill “a poor yahoo sysad” and Ben “a Manager aka a suit” .
Ben: “We have a problem with our servers, I keep having emails trying to sell me Viagra, and telling me A great uncle is dead and left me some money!”
Bill: “Yes, everyone gets them, its called SPAM!… Err you didn’t give out your bank account details again did you?”
Ben: “Yes, but its Ok this time Mr. Yakamatza has heard of me, and trusts me to look after his 50million Yen while he’s audited, He said I could keep all the interest I make, and he’ll pay me 1 million”
Bill: *sigh*
Ben: “Anyway I’ve come up with a way to stop it! What we do is refuse to accept any emails, we’ll send it back saying its blocked due to user complaints”
Bill: “But no one will get their emails then?”
Ben: “No, here’s the clever bit, we’ll refuse the first half dozen times they send the email, then let the 7th attempt in. Spammers will get bored and give up before sending the same email 7 times?”
Bill: “Great, thats not going to annoy most the world. Where the Computer Weekly with the job adverts!”
I’m sure it went something like that. And because of that we at the Insane Asylum have been fighting rising mail queues and upset customers for the last few months. Our team tried everything to relieve the bottleneck, different IP’s, Domain Keys, filling in the webforms, the works…Nothing……
So at the start of this week I got annoyed that the inmates here were getting hassle again over customers not being able to evil people with BT email addresses. So I filled in the online help form (which so far had resulted in nothing). I filled it in using the style of a very annoyed person, used my name with all its letters at the end to impress whoever read it. And by the next day there was an email from them asking for more details. Send off giving them all the emails they asked for and viola! a nice email back saying our servers have been added into their database and that should sort out the problems. And it has, no bounce backs or failed emails today.
CN
by GothNinja | Jan 25, 2007 | Poetry, LiveJournal, Fame
Well to take my mind off the drudgery of dealing with some stupid people.
“Are you sure you want your domain name redirected there? You know that doesn’t exist so your site won’t work? No my redirecting it will not magically make the other place exist?” All the while resisting buying the none-existent domain name to sell to the customer at a later date…
I was doing some random google searches on some poetry I wrote years ago. And blow me down with a feather I found loads of copies of them about the net.
Ok 85% of the found copies were people posting them as their own work, Now in the past this has annoyed me, and i’ve asked for them to be removed, but due to a mellowing out in my old age, I couldn’t care less anymore.. Either that or the fact that all the comments on the poems were complimentary, eased the pain :0)
Or the fact I found one professional (non-personal) site that had one of my poems on it listed as being by Lord Byron (1812). So kinda a decent compliment for people to mistake my work for that of Lord Byron!…
by GothNinja | Jun 1, 2006 | Media, LiveJournal, Fame
There is just one problem with living in the welsh hills, Its a bit out the way.
Been invited to a preview showing of a new horror film, but its in London, and at 6 tomorrow. Which considering I don’t finish work till 5, I have no chance of attending.
Ah well, There has to be the odd disadvantage, or everyone would want to live here!
by GothNinja | Apr 18, 2006 | Media, LiveJournal, Fame
Well its the first day back at work after a nice four day break away from work, So time to catch up on emails, webpages, forums, and LJ…
Q: So What did I get up to on my break.
A: No where near as much as I planned.
I was supposed to write a review for “Bite Me” magazine, but only got as far as skimming a copy and looking at the pictures. and blanking all memories of vampuss… I must get this done, and something more constructive than asking for more photos of cute women…
I was planning on getting myself some new toys (i recently came into some money that I decided to blow on crap) but after some advice from someone in the office I am now confused on what to get, flatscreen monitor, or sound system, or stuff and things, So I got no further than looking into AV Receivers…
I was going to wash my car… But gave up after emptying the trash out the inside…
I was going to get pissed several times. This one I managed to do.. Go Me!!!!
I was going to go to pics… Failed.
I was going to finish the labyrinth book… Ok, I’m now down to the last 3 chapters so almost got it done, so with no fencing tonight I should get this finished..
In fact, most the stuff I had planned for the break went out the window. This is the last time I plan anything. But it proves once and for all I am useless :0)
by GothNinja | Apr 10, 2006 | Fame, LiveJournal, Goth
Just a quick advert for “bite me” magazine.
Figured I’d be nice and give them a small bit of advertising since I just got some free copies of their great magazine in the post.
Oh, they also have great taste, I am mentioned in one of the magazines they sent!.
Sometimes good things happen…
[Start Email Quote]
hello
I publish a vampire magazine and wonder if you would like me to send you a copy to feature on your site?
[End Quote]
Having no idea who these people were, I did the sensible thing of emailing back my home address, and less than a week later I get a nice package in the post… So, if you are into anything Goth, alternative, spooky, horror, victorian, etc. Then I recommend reading this great magazine…
Now I just have to write a review for a webpage and try and blag some more free stuff…
