Links o' the day, 22 Dec 2007

Spent the morning trying to catch up on my email. I have a lot of stuff hanging in the breeze. Gotta finish reading EMRFD and start building! :-) Whilst searching for the link to the book, I found a Yahoo! group which I promptly joined. A discussion on eHam, and of course, W7ZOI's web page. Distractions, distractions.

Interesting problem on a mailing ist I frequent. The list is crawled by Google, so emails sent there are available by searching. There was a humourous thread about strange and unusual user IDs -- the sort of thing that comes up from time to time. One poster shared a user ID composed of an initial and last name; the combination making a rude word, We all laughed and thought that was the end of it.

Not so. Apparently, said user learnt about Googling own name, and Googled for said rude word and was extremely upset to find self mentioned in a casual thread in a mailing list on the Internet. Apparently so upset that self is reporting poster to HR for disciplinary action. Now, one hopes that HR will tell self to stop searching for rude words on the Internet, but the poster is highly concerned about it.

There's a possibility that the list archive software will honour x-noarchive: yes; I'll have to check that out.

Some people are doing last minute Christmas shopping. Me too. Need vinegar powder for the sushi rice to go with Vietnamese pho :-) Better get some Thai basil, too. Xie xie, Rong for telling me about Lee's Market.