With a title like that, you should be thinking (quite rightly) that this is going to be that little snippet of your life that you will never get back.
Useless thought #1:
The email account at my work breached its limits yesterday. It turns out that I have a limit of 80Mb. When you have to send between 10-20Mb of documents and Visio files each day, there is a lot of email data even with religious deleting of what is no longer needed. How did I know that I was over my limit? That's right, an email. Isn't that a little bit silly? I'm not saying that I have a better solution, but I find it funny that when you are not allowed to (or they just don't want you to) send and receive any more emails, they notify you by email.
This brings a few other funny things to mind.
Useless thought #2:
Having computer manuals on CDs instead of being printed when your computer doesn't work.
Useless thought #3:
Yesterday I was at a meeting where an application monitoring software package was being talked up. Some great ideas, but it always sends shivers up my spine when alerts are sent by email. Does this scream spam to anyone else? Several years ago, I worked in a company that used emails for alerts. One night while everyone was blissfully asleep, one particular program was having issues..... in a loop. In the morning, it was discovered that the email server basically had a DOS attack due to the 90,000 emails sent to an email group of users. From memory, it took the admin two days to rebuild and clean up exchange. Not having learnt from the first experience, I recall the same thing happening later on down the track, although I think that figure was only a mere 75,000 emails.
Hey, it's Friday and I need some giggle in my life. :P
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