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Chad Lorenz presents a lot of evidence that email is in decline thanks to Facebook and the like:
“Those of us older than 25 can’t imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it’s hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it.”
That’s fine for the kids, they’re attracted to […]
Email from First Direct:
Thank you for your recent request to join first direct.
Full details about a first direct e-ISA, along with an application form containing the information you have provided, are now on their way to you.
[…]
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SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT!
This is after filling in some 4 page online form. Really need […]
As you may be aware, I was quite ill the other week and ended up spending a night in hospital. Anyway, I’m fine now, but had a follow-up doctor’s appointment today.
One of the things I wanted from the doctor was a sick note for the two days I had off work last week due […]
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/49590
“If we turn the lights out, close the curtains and stay real quiet, do you think he’ll believe we’re not in?” — Entire Ubuntu community
See also.
If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. […]
Thanks for that, noodles! I’ve been wanting to say it myself for some time but for some reason decided against it for fear of being castigated as a grumpy old man. I shall not hold back from the ranting in future.
On the one hand maybe there are some people out there who read […]
Clarity is the key…except when not bothering to do any research for a LUGRadio feature.
I realise that being on so many LUG and similar lists means I’m setting myself up for this but seeing the same conversation play out 10 times already is really doing my head in!
$ cd ~/Maildir
$ find . -type f | xargs grep -il ‘http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents’
./lug-hampshire/cur/1167746700.27551_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-hampshire/cur/1167748676.30387_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./debian-uk/cur/1167842646.25530_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167904508.25092_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167878764.2444_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167873078.30123_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167917038.6388_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167919940.10510_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167918956.9559_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-surrey/cur/1167838262.19494_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-surrey/cur/1167837614.17607_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sb/cur/1167906342.26657_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167845280.28760_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167827746.4426_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167914202.4414_0.bitfolk.com:2,RS
./lug-sussex/cur/1167827668.4349_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167828364.4997_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-master/cur/1167906018.26248_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./cur/1167748049.28558_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./cur/1167815237.20322_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
Pity the petition reads like it was written by a frothing […]
I have just received an official email communication from MBNA which contains the following text:
For your additional peace of mind, every customer e-mail sent by MBNA Europe Bank Limited, including those on behalf of its Credit Card Partners, will include your postcode:
AB123CD
(Obviously I have removed my real postcode there)
In what universe is a postcode considered […]