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Hey - I got my first cease and desist letter today. I feel just like a real publisher now.

Be careful who you offend companies. Your customers are connected and empowered these days. Although I have to say Chilling Effects doesn’t have the breadth of content to deal with these things that I thought they did. Maybe it will get better.

I noticed somebody left a bizarre comment in one of my ancient entries about donating some stuff. It didn’t make any sense to me, and as I was trying to figure out how the person posting could have so thoroughly missed the point, I decided to try a Google Search. Turns out I’m in the first page of results. That’s insane. There must be better matches than my blog entry. Either google’s giving a crazy amount of weight to title tags, or there were a whole lot of web sites that were so impressed by my musings on where to get rid of my crap that they linked me like crazy thereby driving up my pagerank.

I’m sure this is going to be linked everywhere like wild fire, but I mean holy crap. That is a freaking hack and a half. Games in Form buttons. Who the hell thinks of stuff like that?

This is the third time I’ve wanted to dig up the link to Romeo and Juliet told in Haxor Speak, and I can never find it. It’s Here

Keywords: Romeo Juliet Shakespear 31337 Haxor. Now if I lose it again, I may need to go off myself, ’cause there’s just no helping me.

Might take some time to get used to the Interface Changes in Microsoft’s Upcoming version of Outlook. They claim moving the preview pane over to the right gives you 40% more reading room, but the middle pane feels awfully trapped in this configuration. I do like the idea of being able to dynamically select whether I want to read mail as HTML or Text (although I’m not exactly sure what their feature point: “Blocks external Internet content in HTML messages” means). And, I love the idea of being able to save Advanced Search folders. It seems like I’m always running the same types of searches so that would be a huge time saver.

It’s mostly moot for me since I work primarily on a Mac, and who knows when (if ever) we’ll get an Outlook update for that platform. They haven’t even come out with one that runs in OS X yet. Still, about 90% of my work happens in e-mail these days, and our company uses Exchange, so it’s interesting to see where they’re going with their client software.