found in my personal journal, copied here

[dudeitsawesome.livejournal.com]

All of these stories have happened within the last month.
( cut for your pleasure )

OW! OW! OW! OW! OW!

[ex-deliveryboy.livejournal.com]

This paragraph is am email received from a customer, copied and pasted exactly, with only our product name edited to protect my job.


"...I need some help with pasting Word documents into *ourwebmailproduct* e-mail pages. A few weeks ago spyware attacked me. I thought the spy was my protection. But after some clues I realized I was fooled. Long story short I had to recover the system, not just restore to earlier point. I had to reset all my preferences as if I just bought a new computer.
...Anyway, one thing changed that troubles me very often. If I paste Word text into *ourwebmailproduct* e-mail, it sometimes comes out super long lines. It might write the whole paragraph across rather than wrapping atnbspthe side of the text window. This causes me great angst. I sometimes write far past the time *ourwebmailproductthatlogsthecustomeroutoftheaccountafter20minsofinactivity* stays online, When I want to send anything that took me some length of time, I have to paste the text into Word and refresh *ourwebmailproduct*. Otherwise it might refresh rather than send the e-mail. I've lost more than a few e-mails and *ourwebmailproduct* self-refreshing has caused me to double-send things. Using Word is best for me. I can write for however long it takes and not have to consider remaining connected.nbspSo I would very much like to eliminate this challenge.nbspJust now I needed to search the origin of a word. I don't know what caused it. but the system locked up and I had to power off. I lost the whole letter I was working on. A few weeks ago I called your customer service. I don't know how unusual this challenge is but he had no idea how to help me. Is this solvable?"




wait, what?

(yeah, surprise, no notes that he has called in since 2003.Last email was 7 months ago: "How can I put pictures into e-mail?"

News flash!

[jjjiii]

Evolution foiled as ancient SCSI scanner fails to develop wireless functionality when deprived of cable

AP Cleveland, OH - Proponents for the theory of evolution were disappointed today when a transplanted SCSI scanner failed to connect wirelessly when its data cable was left unconnected by the f-ing moron who performed the hardware move.

"We're really bummed," said one scientist. "We thought that the scanner would evolve bluetooth and re-establish communications with the PC it had formerly been wired up to. Clearly the theory of evolution has a few holes in it."

The scanner, a Bell and Howell manufactured in 1996, was also connected via SCSI cables to an ancient CD-RW drive which was also left disconnected. Following emergency surgery to re-establish the cabling bond and transplant the chain terminator, the PC was restored to full functionality, and the redundant CD-RW drive was amputated from the device chain, while its terminator now is recovering comfortably, connected to the scanner device.