so, when i sat down at my desk this morning, i had no email waiting for me. this is not a bad thing.

for the past few months, i (as well as all of my programming compatriots) have been copied on all email that went to webmaster@bradycommunications.com. because "webmaster@" is such a known and common email (as well as being listed in a lot of the sites we've done, therefore being scraped by automatic email harvesters), i would receive a ludacrisp amount of spam every day. the rationale for putting all of us programming nerds on the webmaster list was for super-extra-special redundancy, i think. say, for example, something came in from network solutions, a domain name expiring or something of the sort. the problem was that because so many of the webmaster emails were viruses, we couldn't open up any of the emails anyway...

now there's a new sheriff in town. well, a new cto, actually. i pointed out to him yesterday via email what a huge drain in productivity it was to have all these webmaster emails, because no matter how i set up my outlook rules, i couldn't stop it from beeping and showing the little mail icon whenever i got a new email, webmaster or otherwise. so, i'd have to stop what i was doing, bring outlook up (because it might actually be an email for me, ha ha ha ha), and then sigh heavily and minimize outlook again. he's quite a rational sort, so he took all of us off webmaster. so yesterday afternoon and all day today was lovely, uninterrupted bliss.

i will miss some of the fun subject lines we used to get from the porn/spam/etc., tho.

"A powful new tool!" "Look, my japanese girlfriend." "Rip her apart with your monster cock!"

*sigh*.. good times.