zhasper.com

Dear Mr Palmer,

A) Either your blog's comment feature is broken, or navigation links to it have been misplaced. Please fix, so that I don't have to continue commenting here.

B) You are a spammer. You admit that you merrily sent spam on its way into around five user's inboxes - spam that you know appears to come from you, spam that you know is definitely unsolicited and unwanted. This makes you a spammer. The fact that you seem to think that sending this spam to users was somehow getting back at either the authors of the spam, or the writers of the spam blocking tools, only makes this worse.

C) You complain that "but the people whose job it is to write, maintain, and run spam software don't [know that source addresses are forged and there's no point replying to them]". If you'd take two seconds to think instead of sending spam and then blogging while enraged, you'd realise that this is patently false. The authors of these tools are trying to ensure that, in the case they've blocked legitimate email, it can be allowed through. This *requires* that they assume the From: address is not forged.

Please stop and think next time before you angry-blog.

Dear SMH,

Please, please stop employing monkeys and start employing people who understand basic rules of English grammar.

No. "Three year olds" is simply plural, there's no possesion being described here - therefore no apostrophe.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised - this is the same publication that talks about "cop cars" on the front page.

Dear Myer,

It's great that you've got a website where I can track my points balance.

It's great that you're using open source.

It's great that you're pretending to care about me, by personalising the site based on my recent activity.

But do you really think that inspiring slogans like "This is the ALTERNATE message" are going to make me feel special? You really think that "OpenCMS resource /myerone/content/myprofile/my_summary" is going to persuade me to spend more money with you?

Please, try again.

just.... Absent. I'm in Mountain View, having the company brain slug fitted. I'll be back in Aus in a while.

In the last day, I've stood in front of Facebook, seen company shuttle busses for Apple, NASA, Yahoo, Citrix, and of course my
own.

But, right now I'm tired and overdue for bed. G'night!

Ps. Can you guess what's special about this post?

I sent this email:

> I'm currently using the username zhasper_
>
> This is because, at some point, I signed up with the username zhasper. I don't
> know what email address I used for this username, and I have no idea what my
> password was. As a result, I've not logged in since just after I created the
> account.
>
> Is it possible for you to send a password reminder/reset email to the email
> address associated with the account zhasper, if their is one?

Their response:

Hi,

The email you used to sign up with is the one you have just used to contact
me.

I have also reset your password.

It is now: xxxxxxxx

Feel free to change it once you log back in.

After some prodding and poking and trying to understand what I was doing wrong, I realised what was going on, so sent this response:

Hi.

You've reset the password for zhasper_, the account that I already
knew the pasword too, that I have no problem accessing.

I was asking about the account zhasper - note the lack of underscore.

Thanks!

This morning, I get this response:

Hi,

New Password: xxxxxxx

Guess which account had its password reset?

I'm narky now.

You've reset zhasper_ again. I'm not having problems with that
account. Try again.

Lets see if they get it right this time.