30 August 2006
This year, for the first time since 1999, I took two consecutive weeks off for my bucket-and-spade break, and even braver... I moth-balled the laptop. No email, no web... not even a mobile. Bliss.But yesterday was payback. I opened Apple Mail to find out how much email I had in the holiday folder, even I was surprised.
Now some of you will be thinking "Gee, that Nick is a popular fellow", and you'd be right. My inbox was stuffed full of generous offers of help... from people I'd never even met! I've got exclusive stock-market tips, incredible mortgage offers, proscription drugs at insane prices... plus the chance to enhance a certain part of my anatomy... not to mention the numerous young ladies apparently keen to help me use it. Gosh the Internet is a friendly place.
And I'm lucky too. I've won three separate lotteries for a total of more than 30,000,000 euros, and I have the chance to cash in further good by helping the widow of an African Finance Minister move some money into the UK. I'll get 10%!
But let's not get carried away... I have had my share of problems. Several banks, including a couple I was unaware I had accounts with, have had security scares... and need me to send them my username and password to fix the problem. My ebay and paypal accounts are similarly afflicted. I've also had bills for things I cannot honestly remember buying, but I can fix everything if I just double-click on the attached file.
Just a normal couple of weeks at Semantic then.
Total emails: 7880, Total useful emails: 48
Posted by Nick Warren at 3:54 PM
