Archive for the ‘arse’ Category

Questions vs. Answers vs. Comments

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Results 1 - 100 of about 1,680,000,000 for comments Results 1 - 100 of about 426,000,000 for answers Results 1 - 100 of about 691,000,000 for questions It's true: on the internet, there are more questions than answers; but almost everyone has got something to say. How very like life.

PayPal email fail

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Now that I've got a job working for an email service provider I've started taking a bit more notice of different companies' attempts at email marketing, and I have to admit to becoming slightly more sensitive about when they do it badly. Today I received yet another ridiculous failure that's ...

Dear Linux.com, you suck. Love, pgl

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Wankers. [The below pasted verbatim, including grammatical errors, etc.] From: Peter Lowe <pgl@yoyo.org> To: Linux Foundation <events@linux-foundation.org> CC: linux.com.users@linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Linux.com.users] 20% LinuxCon Registration Discount for Linux.com Members I don't normally bother responding to poorly thought out marketing attempts like this, but, your last one so annoying that I just - can't - help myself. Look, you're ...

Fuck you, spam

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

And this, folks, is why spam sucks so fucking much: Junk Filter Statistics The junk mail filter has been trained by 46868 messages, whereof 28127 (60%) have been rated as solicited and 18741 (40%) as junk. This resulted in a total of 699360 tokens read, 349780 (50%) rated as good and ...