BBC NEWS | Technology | US duo in first spam conviction

The scary thing about this, is that it shows the reason why we get so much spam… it works!

The e-mails advertised penny stocks, low mortgage rates and software to erase internet browsing records, Virginia officials said.

A “Fed-Ex refund processor” was supposed to allow people to earn $75 an hour working from home.

His sister helped him process credit card payments.

Jaynes amassed a fortune of $24m from his sales, prosecutors said.

I draw your attention to the 24m dollars…

No, not the thing your dad can’t do, or even the thing you can’t do as you realise that you are in fact turning into your dad; but actual bonafide coding a DVD! I’ve been doing some of late, oh back to the days when you can’t do anything… about 16, 16 bit registers and that’s it! No memory, no graphics, no sprites, no sound… 16 registers a video footage! nice!

Every now and then I check my web stats to see how people get to my site and from where… looking at the search engine keyword list is always amusing. As I have so much content of varying stuff, I often generate strange hits… but how about this one last month.

“i always respect the dead by wearing a condom”

That hit one of my pages!

Yep, 34 today! Where has the time gone,? 34 years, “…don’t they go by in a blink”

My brother, sisteer-in-law and their son stayed with use over the weekend. It’s nice to have other members of the family around on a birthday. Luckily my birthday fell on a weekend so I didn’t have to take the day off work; I don’t work on my birthday, never have, never will.

Just into the new year and already the first week has been a little difficult.

The shower was still leaking after I re-sealed all the joints! Damn there was so much silcone around the shower tray that there was no way water could be escaping - inconcievable! However it turned out to be the grout between the tiles had given up the ghost. All sorted now and the shower appears to be in full working order.

The boiler packed up on the Sunday after New Years day! So we’ve been without heat and enough hot water for the last week. A boiler guy came out on Bank Holiday Monday and then decided the boiler really was knackered! The PCB motherboard had gone on it! Managed to get the manufacturer out to in on warranty, but it took them until today. Anyway sorted now. The irony is that we replaced the 20yr old boiler during the building works because we had to move it anyway and we figured it would probably die during or not long after being moved. 8 months later the new boiler dies!

With the heating and hot water fixed and the the shower, I’ve just had the best shower in the world - ever - 2!!!! After 5 days of small baths!