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Chain Letter Email

July 1st, 2008 by Tastic

Seriously? This stuff still exists? Today I got one of the old-timey chain letter emails. It had a sob story and a rigged moral choice at the end to “Do the Right Thing” and forward to all of your coworkers and friends. If you didn’t, you are clearly a cold-hearted son-of-a-bitch and I’m sure you’ll get your comeuppance. Well, yes. Yes, I am, and undoubtedly I will. The moral choice of forward like a good little sheep or delete like a cruel bastard was a clear choice to me, and my trash can gets a new entry.

I thought this stuff died in the 90s as I certainly yelled enough at anyone doing it then, but it appears I’m not done yelling yet. It might be the spread of good will or it might be a vicious trap to get a bunch of confirmed working email address to target spam at. Either way, I don’t care. This is something that has always annoyed me, and I won’t participate. You hear me out there? Do you?

Ok. I’m calm now. Anyways, been a while since I posted an update. The theme got a few improvements, namely PNGs with transparency. That’ll require IE 7 or greater to display properly… or any other vendor’s browser made in the last decade. A friend of mine pointed out that it’s not a big deal as most IE users already have upgraded and this aims to be a techie site. It does make the gradients flow better and the image size smaller, so I’m somewhat happy about that.

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