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How to Write Email

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Send email in plain text - not “formatted” or HTML. Your font is hideous and your gratuitous spacing is offensive. Don’t even get me started on background images. Convey your message with punctuation, letters, words and sentences. If something is *really important* you can use asterisks, like that.
Keep it short and to the point - [...]

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Keep Your Shoes On

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

It really bothers me when I have to take off my shoes upon entering someone else’s house. I know that sounds insensitive and it’s not my place to make such a call because I’m only there under their grace, but that doesn’t make it any less illogical or annoying.
I’m a person deeply rooted in logic [...]

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Bank of America’s Retarded Password Policy

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Bank of America requires that your password be only alphanumeric.

Wait. Let me get this straight. You want me to supply a password that consists of only letters and numbers, thereby increasing the likelihood of simple dictionary attacks? And this is “to make sure [my] passcode is sufficiently secure”? Apparently there are “invalid symbols” that I [...]

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Safety is Terrifying

Sunday, August 26, 2007

We Americans have been taught that safety and security should be the highest goals of our lives. You should strive to work a “safe job” with “good benefits” so you can raise your children in the same fashion, perpetuating the cycle of excruciating mundanity until the guys you pay for your security cause the nuclear [...]

written by Brad Fults