The Anonymous Widower

A Deal for Obama

Every day, I get masses of useless spam e-mails from his country.  I’ve had five this morning trying to sell me a set of kitchen knives. Actually for other reasons, shouldn’t selling knives by mail-order be illegal. It might even be!  See BBC Watchdog for details.

 So here’s the deal.

We’ll put our best engineers and scientists on the solving of the oil spill, if he puts his best lawyers and computer programmers on the problem of spam.

Doesn’t he realise that spam is one of the reasons many people don’t like the United States! Nothing you do seems to stop it, as much is actually legal in the States, but spammers ignore the law.

Thinking about this more, I’d include the large number of unwanted phone calls <I get from the States as well trying to sell me cruises and useless shares.  Those ignore the Telephone preference Service< which should mean I don’t get any unwanted calls.  But then Americans aren’t bound by UK law or even common decency.

June 15, 2010 Posted by | Computing | , , | 9 Comments

Kurtins Chemicals

Another scam.  Ignore it.

Compliment of the day to you,

My name is Terry morgan and I am inquiring if you would be interested in a part time online job from home and get paid without affecting your present job.

Kurtins Chemicals ,London, England need a diligent Male/Female in the Europe,USA and CANADA for urgent part time employment. If you are interested you can email me back at the email address below and fill in the blankspaces and I would give more details of the part-time job offer.

Telephone +44-702 404 2932

Name………sex…..age……occupation….phone…..country

number…………………residential

address……………………..

Thanks in this regards

Terry Morgan

Kurtins Chemicals

It might well have been sent out of China. So next time you think about purchasing something cheap made by them, think about the other things they do.  Remember too, that they still have the death penalty, but obviously not for spam.

Note too, that if you ring the number, it may cost you a fortune. That’s how they make money!

June 14, 2010 Posted by | Computing | , | Leave a comment

Fine Wine Company Manchester City

Ignore this crappy scam.

I am Ms Victoria Grace Elizabeth: the Accountant General of Fine Wine Company Manchester City (London) one of the largest Wine Companies with over 2.5 trillion capital investment Fund, nevertheless as the accountant general i handle all staff welfare accounts and i extracted 1.5% excess maximum return capital profits (EMRCP) per annual on each of the staff’s capital fund. As an expert i have made over $6.5million from the staff’s (EMRCP) and hereby looking For someone to trust who will stand as an investor to receive the fund as annual investment proceed from Fine Wine capital fund of 2008/2009, for the co-operation in building a Wine company or manufacturing company in you country.

 

I am sorry if this is not in line with your business, but i need an experienced person like you to assist me to set up develop the project and assume responsibility of ownership as chairman but will be bringing in profit distribute profit monthly or annually. Your immediate reply will be highly appreciated and i shall give you more information on this project.

 

All confirmation Documents to back up the claims will be made available to you for payment Prior to your acceptance, I am looking forward for your reply urgently before our team of auditors arrived for the year general auditing meanwhile I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the fund can be claimed by you in a bank nearest to you without any stress i will offer you 40% of the total money at the end of the transaction while I take 60%, please kindly note that we have few days left to round up this transaction..

 

Please kindly declare your interest in this matter as soon as you receive this mail.

 

Note: your reply is urgently needed.

 

June 13, 2010 Posted by | Computing | , | 3 Comments

Left Handed Mouse

To train my left hand again, I’ve switched the mouse to left-handed. I think I’ll keep things simple though.

I’m lucky though in that I can work a left-handed mouse with my right hand. I used to use someone’s computer who was left-handed.

June 12, 2010 Posted by | Computing | | 2 Comments

Keep Taking the Tablets

I sometimes worry that I might miss a tablet as there are quite a few of them.

So I’ve set up a daily alert in Outlook. At least I’ll be nagged.

June 12, 2010 Posted by | Computing, Health | | 1 Comment

Too Many Thank You E-Mails

I’m having to write lots of these and was getting fed up entering, “Thanks, etc.” all the time and then just clicking Send.

So, I created Signature in Outlook called Thanks.

Now I just click Reply, Insert, Signature, Thanks, perhaps add a few words and then click Send.

Learn how to use signatures to save time and hassle.

I’ve also created one called Evil Empire for unwanted e-mails from countries that still use the death penalty.

June 12, 2010 Posted by | Computing | , | Leave a comment

Addenbrookes TV/Phone System

I suppose beggars can’t be choosers, but it is not good.  Cost is obviously an issue I don’t bother about, but whoever designed the system should be reducated.  Wires get entwined with each other  and the screens are distinctly user-unfriendly.

But my biggest gripe is that it doesn’t have BBC Radio 5 Live.  I could at least get that through the Internet in Hong Kong. But there is no wi-fi on wards here.  There should be!

Another point is that the Hong Kong system does the medical records too. But knowing a bit about computing in the NHS, I’m not surprised they got that one wrong.

June 12, 2010 Posted by | Computing, Health | , | 1 Comment

E-Mail Therapy

I’m finding that answering e-mails is good both physically and mentally. Anything sensible welcomed at my gmail address.

June 4, 2010 Posted by | Computing, Health | | Leave a comment

Skype

I’m using Skype a bit.  My ID is ‘vagueshot’ Send a message before calling please.

June 3, 2010 Posted by | Computing | | Leave a comment

An automated/instrumented body

As I lie here I’m connected to a heart monitor, that reports by radio to the central support unit. But they also take my blood pressure, pulse rate and temperature every hour or so.

How long will it be before I could wear a body suit, that did everything automatically, even if I was at home in bed?

This could take a complete map of everythung the wearer did.

In addition to medical treatment, it could have implications in the treatment of mental health and drug addition. especially if it contained a two-way communication link, so they could be informed when to take their medication.

May 24, 2010 Posted by | Computing, Design, Health | 5 Comments