May 08 2024
Over the last decade or so help desks have been sent overseas. This often means bad and echoey lines of communications and strong accents that are very hard to understand. This is especially true if you are already stressed about your account being hacked, email offline or your bank account frozen. So, just like my …
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Dec 18 2023
There is nothing more satisfying, but at the same time galling, to find out that something you have been using for years has an awesome feature that you never knew about. Like a hotplate that has a warming function…right there in front of you. If only you’d pressed that little PAUSE button five years earlier. …
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Dec 15 2023
No. You are not going mad. Yes. Your emails are getting more bounce backs, ending up on blacklists and your friends haven’t received an email from you in weeks. This is happening to all of us in different ways and in different degrees and it is due to the fight against everyones favourite band of …
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Oct 05 2023
We have all seen them. Emails from friends or family that, even with the briefest of glances, appears “off” But we get lazy and answer them. Or in the case of a spam email that offers an Unsubscribe button, get angry and unsubscribe and add an insulting note as to why we don’t want to …
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Oct 04 2023
I sometimes fantasise about finding scammers locked in a room somewhere , maybe even catching them in the act and, as Marsellus Wallace said in Pulp Fiction, “I’ma get medieval on your ass” But alas, all I can do is try and help people avoid their scumbaggery. These examples of wasted DNA, these rat brained …
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