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There's a discussion group I'm on where there has been a recent spate of out-of-office emails being inadvertently sent to the group by the respective persons' e-mail systems at work.

Then someone who was probably not too technology-inclined (and probably also in a bad mood that day) posted:

"I get so much of this rubbish coming in telling me who is in his office and who is not! Can we please stop this? I DO NOT need to know who is in or out of his office and this forum is NOT for this sort of info! Have a great break or holiday OR whatever it is you are doing outside your office but please do not tell me about it!"

.. hats off to the long-suffering moderator who had to draft a long spiel after the above outburst about the fact that neither the poor individuals who went on holiday, nor the moderator, could do anything about an automated process found on most groupware/email systems which the poor chap apparently had never encountered ..

a river of peanut sauce?

the company that makes my favourite satay pleaded guilty in court to discharging toxic effluents containing excessive biochemical oxygen, chemical oxygen, solid particles, oil and grease!

there are alarm bells ringing somewhere in my head... i'm researching corporate social responsibility for my dissertation, i just had ten sticks of their chicken satay last week, and suddenly i see 'Kajang satay firm pleads guilt to discharging toxic effluents' on the front page!

guess i can do without it for a while. after all, the stuff is chock full of carcinogens.

allergens

substances that i gradually found out i'm allergic to:

- white wine (not red, but white)
- therefore champagne
- and, this seemed to have suddenly developed -- vodka! (specifically, the combi of orange juice + vodka)

it's becoming quite easy for me to find an excuse not to have a drink - i'm getting allergies to more and more of stuff in the --OH family!