stupid mail systems

Dear guy with Verizon address who mailed me this morning,

Your query re: Red Delicious albums can be answered fairly quickly with a google search. I found two sites selling Emotional Blur, and one of them also sells Acoustical Blur. Additionally, you could try contacting the band directly through CD Baby, since you mention that you got an album of theirs there. The reason I'm not emailing you this information is that I tried to, and your dumbass ISP is blocking my mail and asking me to jump through some sort of whitelisting hoops to unblock it. Since I have no desire to condone stupid mail systems, I will not be following these instructions. If you never see this information, well, too bad.

Love,
Waider.

fun with headlines

Cardinal Sin dies in Manila

the only $company people I'll really miss

* davema has changed the topic to: WELCOME TO ADMIN. TWO-DRINK MINIMUM

Him and mbroad, both of whom are smart, funny and apparently abberations in the normal $company hiring policies.

our man in QA

me: in order to diagnose this problem I need to see the error generated in the httpd’s error log
QA guy: I don’t have access to the httpd error_log. Here’s the output from a completely unrelated file instead.

This is one of the people I certainly WON’T miss.

Update: When we (by which I mean "I") found the problem, it turns out that QA guy had misconfigured his system. His final post on the topic was to ask me to make a note of this for future reference. Since it’s already documented, and a correct sample is included in the files we ship, I’m somewhat at a loss as to where I should note this. Or indeed, what I should note, beyond "QA guy is an idiot" which you may gather from context I’ve already noted well enough.

fanboy moment

I am disappointed that this comes up blank (as does a search for "bad attitude"). Shame.