davidschroth | This and That

First

In my role as mail list moderator, I've recently noticed an increasing volume of what I regard as Debora spam. Which is spam where the forged from address appears to have been generated by prepending the string debora to a real e-mail address. It started recently (within the last month), and the volume now dwarfs any other spam I see. I'm a little curious about what's behind it (but not curious enough to bother actually look at the spam).

Second

Isn't about time for the annual list of overused phrases of the past year to start appearing? I'm wondering, based upon internal e-mail I've been seeing lately, if "word-smithing" is going to make the cut. Mind you, I shouldn't complain too much about it - an e-mail about time-recording contained a typo of "word-smithing" that I found immensely amusing.

Third

Last night's review dinner was great fun. I don't know if the food would justify a special trip down to Burnsville, but you have to admire the enthusiasm of the guy running the music trivia contest. The company was first rate, and well-matched to the trivia contest - especially our ringer (Mr. N. Ternet).