Davs Rants and Random Thoughts

<rant>Man, I hate spam. I have had my davglass.com email address for over 10 years now. I guess it’s nice to have it, but in that time the amount of spam I receive is unbelievable. Take a look at this picture, that’s alot of spam huh? That is a the amount of spam I get in a week and a half. Yes, I said 10 days. I have gotten over 3000 spam messages in 10 days. Let’s break that down:

• 300 per day
• 12.5 an hour
• 0.208.. per minute
• 9,000 per month (30 days)
• 109,500 per year

Now, I have seen some of the messages. Most of the make absolutley no sense what-so-ever. So my question is:
Why are there so many idiots out there sending me 109,500 spam messages a year? Most of them don’t even contain simple messages. Example:

What the hell is the above supposed to mean?

1. Is it a bad translation?
2. Is it a virus that makes all normal text look like that?
3. Is it simply a monkey slamming his ass off of a keyboard?

Personally I vote for number 3 !</rant>

I just found this MP3 posted on Slashdot. You have to give it a listen, if you are any kind of coder, you will love this little tune.

Finally, I have working copies of the last 3 of my “necessary” applications in a universal binary. I have been waiting for these 3 for a while. Still missing all of the Unsanity haxies to be ported, but that is a different story 8-). And of course there are the few other apps that I use, but not nearly as much as these.

The apps that I have been waiting on are:
Firefox 1.5.0.2
PSI Jabber Client
gVim

Now that I have all of them in a universal form, I can now open the Activity Monitor an bask in the glow of Intel listed under Kind.