The Idiot Test
Thursday, May 17th, 2007EMail this article
Go on, waste some time ...
... you know you wanna!
Go on, waste some time ...
... you know you wanna!
Here's a spam email that I found in my inbox today. This is yet another one of those "lottery win based on your email address" crap using Microsoft and AOL (or Aol according to the idiot who wrote the email) and millions of pounds/dollars as bait.
THE MICROSOFT GROUP.UNITED KINGDOM.
Dear Lucky Winner, The prestigious Microsoft and [...]
The award for the best Wikipedia quote ever goes to Scott Adams (Dilbert) for this gem in his latest blog post :
I’m far too lazy to read an entire book, so I went to Wikipedia and read what strangers with no credibility had to say about him.
That's exactly the way I use Wikipedia. I use it as [...]
That's it for me today. I'm staying off the web for the rest of the day and closing my email client and shutting down Messenger. Far too much April Fool's BS going round.
See ya all tomorrow.
Funny exchange today:
Client: My browser crashes when I visit XYZ.com.
Me: Have you tried visiting another site?
Client: Well, not every website out there, no.
True story, no April Fool.
Ed Bott points us to an odd knowledge base article over on the Microsoft site:
The words "Friendster," "Klum," "Nazr," "Obama," and "Racicot" are not recognized when you check the spelling of English-language text in the Office 2003 programs .
Some words may not be in the English-language dictionary in the Office 2003 programs. When a word is [...]