I get up this morning as I always do (well as I have most of my life thus far) and wander to the jym (as I normally do) Where I find they have re-arranged things so that I hawe to walk the full way past the gym to the reception, about 50m or so, past the 'old' reception (which was convienantly located just inside the door) then you have to walk all the way back basically to the front door to get into the gym. That all being said - I thought to myself 'thats the most stupid thing I am going to have to deal with all day' (see how upbeat I can be) I managed to have a really good workout & got home to a nice hot shower & a great breaky.
Then I arrive at work, there are no messages from clients who need the sun moved slightly so it doesn't shine it their eyes in the morning (1/2 my requests are about this stupid) the coffee is freely flowing, I have a great *bright* hawian shirt on - even better than this one Anto at work
Then I get to the /. emails - Normally I use them to notify me if someone has added a comment to something I have said or one of my friends has posted a journal entry. The first thing I do is click the link to open it up in Mozilla - at which point I see a nice annoying animated add (occasionally I actually click on one when its not someone trying to sell me freeze dried doggie grits). Today however The first thing I see is 8 lines of annoying ads (in the email) - all the same add telling me to waste my time looking at a thawte site to learn about friggin SSL. I daily talk to people about ssl - I organise secure hosting of our applications for clients - I arrange for the purchase of certificates on a regular basis. I have now just put thawte to the bottom of my list of providers... (yes Im pissed and ranting)
It is going to be trivial for me to automatically trim this spam from my email - I will never see the ads again. However I was also looking at getting a /. sub - I dont agree that I should have to pay to make /. the site it is - but I am (was) willing to do so. They [/.] have the arrogance to spam my inbox with the *exact same* add 3 times (I probably would have accepted seeing it once). How can people participating in the wonderfulness that is ./ fail to see that this just might be a really bad idea.
PS I am also mailing my fav. thawte reseller telling them why I wont be buying thwarte again.
(now a deep breath, a bit of loud music and some work)
Scary shirt, Joy Of Text (Score:2)
Got two e-mails from Slashdot in my inbox yesterday - apparently, a glitch caused by changes to the Messaging system.
I have no problem with subscribing to Slashdot, $5 for a month or so of ad-free reading is fine by me, plus I don't get hassled by the stupid limit on the friend/foe system.