Web services on my ISP were down since Friday. It made me very sad, not being able to write on my blog. And very distressed, since it also meant no one could read my blog!
I sent a series of increasingly plaintive emails to the sys admins, which went unanswered. But today, when I logged on to check my email, I discovered a pile of comment spam (I get email notifications on every comment and trackback). I've never been so happy to see it - it meant my site was back. Yay!
Of course, during the weekend when there were no comment spams, I had the occasion to admire the regular spams that normally are drowned out by the email notifications. In addition to the flurry of mortgage offers and male physique enhancers, I got a spam from an anti-spam organization, and another offering me a year's supply of pringles.
It got me thinking about the spam I got sometime in early 2003, the one that let me know it was a new world order. It was one of those Nigerian 419 scam emails, except that it wasn't sent under the auspices of a Nigerian diplomat. Instead it read, "Dear Sir or Madam... I am the Minister of Culture for Iraq..."