E-Mail Address List For Sale
I received a spam e-mail yesterday offering me a list of three billion e-mail addresses. I suspect, I’m on it, as they say they used the list to spam me.
How do you get off a list like that?
The only way is to change your e-mail address! Not easy, if it’s a domain, you’ve spent a lot of money on!
But in my view, as probably selling the list is illegal in most civilised countries in the world, shouldn’t someone have the power to at least ban the domain they are using? That by the way is \\email\\million\\dot\\c\\o\\m. It is registered in Muscat.
More People Sign On To The Internet
This report says that in the last year 2,000,000 more people have signed on to the Internet in the UK. A lot of those who’ve signed up are over fifty.
This is a very good thing, asa it makes it possible for the government to deliver more and more services on line to do things more efficiently and at less cost.
As an example I always get my Vehicle Excise Duty on line and it is a system that works well. Similarly, I fill in my Electoral Roll on line. That one is conpletely painless. We certainly need an on line tax and benefits system on-line, that makes sure that people are encouraged to work.
The more people that get on line, the more these systems will be possible.
Edward Riches
AVoid this crook at your peril!
We are Cyprus bases company that offer incorporation service to our clients.
We have over 250 individual Agents in the UK that are working for the company, they will be needing materials like envelopes, ink,printer etc. to do the jobs weekly.
Your job is order/acquire materials for them from the stationary supplier to do their job weekly, the agents will email you whenever they need materials,your duty is to contact the supplier through email to make order for the materials and also state the quantity that should be posted to the agent address through the post.. we are employing you just to reduce the workload for our agent in UK.
You will only be working from Mondays to Fridays and the job is an online job… i.e. through the email.
We will always email you guidelines and instructions to follow in getting your job done perfectly when you start working.
Get back to us with your NAME, ADDRESS and MOBILE NUMBER… also let us know when you can start working.
reply to this email: eriches257@gmail.com
Best regards,
EDWARD RICHES
HR & Development
More on the Keyboard
I’ve started a topic in Microsoft Answers to see if I can get further with the keyboard driver.
A Better Keyboard
I’ve just installed a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 5000, which I bought from PC-World in Cambridge for £49.99 as it was on special offer and also because a guy called Simon took the trouble to sympathise with my needs.
It’s a lot better, as the keys have a good feel and the mouse seems properly bal\nced with the keyboard. I’ve also started to use my left hand to do other than shift and control. Now that I’ve installed the special software, I’ve also been able to disable the caps lock key. It’s a pity I can’t do this for control and Windows. So at least one of my problems has been mitigated.
I do hope the next version of the software allows disabling most of control, but retaining those like control-C that I want.
It certainly a lot better than anything else I’ve tried. All the driver needs is a little bit of thought and we would have a stroke-friendly keyboard.
For some reason this post attracts a large amount of spam comments in Russian. Whoever is posting these, could they please Foxtrot Oscar and get back to their vodka. If they are comatose, Isuspect they can’t post. I delete all the comments which WordPress marks as spam, so they are not getting any gain, but I’m getting a bit of pain.
On July 14th I deleted 23 of these comments. On the 16th, 34 hit the dust. 2 so far on the 17th.
Darrell’s Day
If you read my last post, you’ll read a little of the story of Nathaniel Darrell, who saved Britain from the Dutch. I just thought I’d search for Darrell’s Day in Google. I then opened a site, which because it had an embedded QuickTime video in it, locked up my computer. I’m running IE8 in Vista and there are many forums that say that QuickTime and Vista are like oil and water. So I then tried to uninstall QuickTime and the uninstall software seemed to get in a pickle.
If I’d written software with those number of problems, I’d have been very ashamed of what I had done!
It’s only when you have had a stroke or have suffered serious injury or disability, that you realise how truly crap some programs are. Perhaps, such people should do most of the program testing. Preferably with the programmers in the same room, so that they could vent their feelings properly. Sometimes, I think various other instruments should be available for use in the testing process, but then I’m against violence and capital punishment.
Just think of the times recently, where software has been released without adequate testing and it has caused true distress and even possibly loss of life.
Toolbar Problems
My computer now has all sorts of toolbar problems and in some sites the clicking doesn’t work.
I’ve obviously hit some keystroke. But what?
My Overdaft Has Been Suspended
I received this scam from someone claiming to be Egg. I also received it four times. And overdraft was spelt the same in each. I don’t have an overdaft. but I suspect they are!
Note that a link in the e-mail points to a German web site. Perhapd, it’s to unsettle English fans before tomorrow. I don’t think it was sent by Germans though, as all the ones I know can spell better than that!
Dear Valued Egg Customer
Due to a recent credit limit check on your Egg Card, we have cancelled your overdaft until further noticed. Logon below to ammend your Egg Card and reactivate your account.
Failure to do this within 24hrs will lead to your online access been suspended.
Sorry for the inconvienence.
Regards,
Egg Card Customer Service
As this e-mail is an automated message, we can’t reply to any e-mails replied.
The Phone Finally Arrives
It was finally delivered at 14:45, by a pleasant driver, who hadn’t been the one, who had ytied to deliver it on Monday.
The Samsung B2100 is now working and I’m trying to find all the features. It didn’t come with a cable to link it to my computer, so this may be a problem, as I like to update the contacts from the computer, rather than by typing them in on the small keypad.
Alien Keystrokes
I got in a real mess yesterday with Word. I hit a key like control-shift-something and Word formatted everything in something truly alien and wouldn’t let me delete anything at all. In the end, I had to completely retype a two-page document.
I now use a Logitech Cordless Keyboard and Mouse, which is better than that of the laptop but I am still making mistakes. Small ones like capitalisation I can correct, but these control keystrokes just move me into am unwanted wildeness. I want to cut them out selectively.
I’ve just e-mailed Logitech, to see if they have any ideas. Here’s what I said.
I have Logitech cordless Desktop EX110. I have no issues with the product, but as I have had a couple of strokes, I find that I keep mixing the control, shirt, alt and Windows keys. This is a typical problem and several of my disabled friends say they get the same problem. It is a real pain in something like Word where combinations like control-shift-C drastically affect the way the program works.
As a programmer for nearly 50 years, the solution is to be able to disable caps lock, control, alt and the Windows key. Do you have a keyboard driver that does this. Ideally, it would still allow certain keystrokes with control to be selectively allowed, as I use control-C etc. for cut, copy and paste.
Thanks. I shall post the quest for a perfect stroke-friendly keyboard on my blog.
Let’s hope they have a solution!
The Anonymous Widower 