Random: June 2007 Archives

Today's spam:

From: "poop"
Subject: "gesture"

Given that I have a 9 1/2-month-old who violently protests every time I change her diaper, well, you can just imagine what I'm imagining.

(Shudder.)

When you're trying to launch a news website and get people to trust you as a reliable source, it's best to avoid things like this:

"We have a competent group of writers working with us, providing quality aritlces."

You can judge the quality of their "aritlces" here, which is how I found them on Google News:

Shredding documents at home, I came across a copy of my lab results from early on in my pregnancy. One of the items on it is "Occult Blood." I tested negative, which is I guess a good thing -- my body fluids are not haunted!

So I got a parking ticket in Rockridge due to hearing loss and stupidity (I thought Michael said I had 10 minutes on the meter when he only said "two minutes.") The back of the ticket helpfully informs me I can pay online. I go to the link and find this monstrosity (click it for the full effect):

Drop shadows? On tiny but important chunks of information that should be in PLAIN OLD HTML?

On top of that, when I type in the citation number, I'm informed it "doesn't exist in Oakland." Oh, goodie.

Whoever created and approved that site? Give them a good kick in the butt, please.