timebomb emails

I can't see any good use for this: emails that self-destruct after a time limit. I can see lots of bad uses, mainly revolving around destroying evidence. I also wonder about the forwarding-prevention - it seems like currently, if you forward an email in the usual thoughtless, top-quoted manner, you're inadvertently attaching a pretty useful audit trail to the message as well. Now, you'll just cut and paste the body into a new mail, forcing you to consider not, say, including any of the headers.

Microsoft: enablers of plausible deniability.

GRRR.

The advert for the place I'm seeing this evening said, "available immediately". While I understand our traditional relationship with timekeeping, I didn't quite expect "immediately" to translate to "October 29th".

but that trick NEVER works!

From Keating's perspective, growing a whole arm would be a needlessly complicated parlor trick.

dream fragment

Denis O'Brien (in person, no less) wanted to headhunt me for work unspecified but with implications that it was continuing from work I'd done previously (I've never worked for any of Denis O'Brien's operations, to the best of my knowledge). Also, for some reason, he was hanging out with his boyfriend. To the best of my knowledge he's not actually gay or anything.

Well, that was certainly unexpected

So I went to check out the not-available-til-month-end house, and got locked into it with the estate agent due to a faulty door latch. Much hilarity ensued as various people turned up to try and view the place and discovered that the door didn't want to open from either side. Eventually I applied a little engineering know-how to the door and got the damned thing open (without breaking anything) and told the agent I'd be in touch.