Musings of the Museless

In the second of an ongoing series of posts, I’d like to share with you, dear reader (singular), what boils my blood, what grinds my gears, what gets my goat.  Some may think I’m easy going but there are many things that get on my nerves.  And this is one of them.

I send and receive a number of emails over the run of the week.  Work email, IEEE email, social emails, responding to emails telling me how to enlarge things and get money from a dead guy’s Swiss bank account.  It’s all good.  I’m a big fan of email over actually talking to people.  But not all emails are created equally.  Not even emails written by the same person on the same day.  And some email habits really drive me nuts.  Maybe I’m old-school.  Let me share with you some of my email driven angst:

• Emails sent without subjects. I cringe everytime Gmail says (no subject) for the subject to an email I’ve received.  I don’t CARE if the email is a one-liner asking me about my weekend plans.  Or if you only email me on one topic, therefore there’s no need to explicitly state the subject.  I don’t care if you forgot.  The subject line is there to be filled in.  I like to know what’s inside.  I like to look back on the subject and determine what your email was about.  And usually, if I’m replying to a no-subject email, I fill one in.  You may not notice, but it makes me a little happier.
• Emails with more than one topic. I’m a bit… OCD about filing my email.  I love Gmail and how it allows me to tag one email with multiple labels.  But I’d prefer not to have to do that.  Personally, I’d prefer two separate emails with well-crafted subject lines.
• Emails not written coherently. It’s a informal form of communication, but it’s only communication if both parties are communicating.  If I can’t understand you, it’s not really communicating.  I’m not talking good grammar, or full sentences.  Re-read your email from the point of view of one who did not write it… can you understand what you are trying to get across?
• SPAM from myself. Do you get this?  It’s happening a lot on my school account.  And I’m not seeing a damn cent from it.  Argh.

That is all.

*sigh* I’m a little disappointed that Canada ISN’T the smart little sister, but still the dumb young kid brother…

Official report of Canada ’spy’ coins not true: U.S.

I gotta say, I’m a little proud (and a tad weirded out) when I read this story:

Pocketful of Espionage: Beware the Spy Coin
Bet the US never thought we had it in us, hey?  Kind of like when you find out your little sister’s been reading your diary and replacing that hair you put across page 42 to detect intruders…

Now, I must go to Tim Horton’s and spend whatever change I have… can’t be too careful.

TaDa! I’ve changed to WordPress (I’m a band-wagon jumper). I’m working to set it up the way I like it, so please bear with me. The gallery is coming back, promise, and maybe with some new pics!! Hopefully I can get her back to where I like her.. but I DO enjoy the theme I’m using (not mine nor my pic).

So, Lappy is happy. She’s gotten her new hard drive. It’s all mirrored from the old one, and now it’s like no bad can happen.

Lappy Update: She’s okay. She’s got some bad sectors. She needs a new HD, and may get one soon. Thanks to Randy’s MacBook for its concern!

Lord help you if you’re nerdier.

Lappy is seriously ill. :( Unmountable boot volume. May need to go in for repairs… gotta take a closer look later. If she’s gone for a while, I may be incommunicado, as I hate blogging from work.

Hurrah! Finally got around to putting the pic up. The phone, she is a Nokia 6585, and originally had a boring gray cover. I needed to change that. So here she is.