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This is a test and nothing more, this is a test, please ignore!
I am testing ecto and twitter and then linking into facebook.
Wish me luck!
The importance of Please and Thank you!
“Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as empty, meaningless, or dishonest, and scorn to use them. No matter how pure their motives, they thereby throw sand into the machinery that does not work too well at best.”
–Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love….The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Happy Valentine’s Day
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The return of Doctor Who
Next Saturday 27th March on BBC1 in the UK, one of my favourite childhood tv programmes returns!
Doctor Who is a quirky, British, low budget Science Fantasy series. Visit Outpost Gallifrey or IMDb to find out more.
Busy, busy, busy!
If some of you are wondering why you have not seen much of me online, it is because I am ‘busy, busy, busy’!
I feel like Sisyphus continually pushing a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll down again! (Though I did not commit any crimes as bad as his!)
I have applied for another job, and will let you (my readers) know what happens, when it happens.
Wish me luck!
Benign Computer Viruses – part two
Another version of the ‘benign’ virus is the forwarded joke.
Now I like a good joke as much as the next man! (And the next man likes a good joke! GROAN)
But I keep receiving jokes that have been forwarded 5 of 6 times. Each ‘level of forwarding’ if there is such a term contains dozens of e-mal addresses.
I counted up 126 e-mail addresses in once such post.
PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE!
If you want to forward a joke then strip out the previous e-mail addresses first. Let’s respect people’s privacy and help stop spam!
You know it makes sense!
Benign Computer Viruses
Originally written in 2004
Every now and then, various friends will send me an e-mail. The e-mail will contain a nice poem (probably about love and friendship) and a nice picture (teddy bears are a favourite). If it stopped there, I would be happy, but at the bottom of the e-mail there is a warning!
It says (And I am am paraphrasing widely here!):
If you do not forward this to anyone, something mildly unpleasant will happen to you. (Or you will have to pay for Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, looking out of your apartment window etc)
If you send it to 5 people, you will get some money.
If you send it to 10 people you will win the Lotto!
I.M. Gullible did not believe this and did not send the message, and her whole villlage was wiped out by the Black Death[1].
She then forwarded to 15 people and became the Queen of England[2]
[1] That this happened in 1645 is just being picky!
[2] In a previous life. 15 people and you have to take pot luck, ie you may end up beheaded. 25 of more and you end up being played by Judi Dench!
I view these e-mails as a form of virus, blocking up my mail box and wasting my time. I never forward these and I never will!
About
Your Host - Stephen with people reading one of his short stories in the background
At the age of Forty four, I have found a new life as a writer of short fiction with two pieces already published (read the blog and visit www.5thbabylonian.com to find out more).
It seems that these are now destined to become collectors items! (In other words they are no longer in print)
I am happy married to a wonderful woman, who does not want any her details published on the web (so that is all you are going to find out about her from me!)
I have had various weblogs for 7 years now (and a website for over 10 years)
