I’m all to familiar with spam filters, and how they can screw-up your mailbox. Today I had my first experience of a filter which looks through the emails you send to a company and filters out what it thinks they don’t want to read.

So, an email to a very well-known website company resulted in an automated response message telling me that my email would not be read and did not appear to be relevant. I obviously didn’t include the right keywords for their filter. 

Isn’t progress wonderful?

it means nothing coming from me, of course. but ten thousand nothings make a big something, rather than a big nothing.

some people don’t get to feel the sun on their skin today. some people don’t get to feel the wind in their hair. some good people.

add your tweet, add your words. find out about and help free Aung San Suu Kyi here.

You’ll see from the box to the right that I’m now putting the twit into twitter. I’ve never been a big fan of facespace or mybook, but twitter is, currently, urm fun.

Ignore the marketing twits, the pr twits and there do seem to be a number of interesting twits written by real people (famous or otherwise). Of course the term is tweets, but you know what I mean.

And of course twitter doesn’t tell me that I have no friends. I know that already. www.twitter.com/coljones

we do not like what we don’t understand.

Not amusing, but puzzling, is the AsdaTescoSainsburyMorrison supermarket decision to ban an album cover, deemed ‘inappropriate’.

Journal for Plague Lovers has some of the finest music released this year, and an equally fine cover painting by Jenny Saville. No guns, naked bodies, sexism or racism, but a painting of a face which looks to some blood-splattered, to others birthmarked. 

A preemptive strike in case a customer actually thinks something about something and god forbid, does something.

Don’t think.

favorite nut - macadamia
favorite group of the week - the killers
favorite food of the week - enchiladas
favorite word of the week - yes

9.9.9 is the date of the remastered beatles catalogue release. God bless the beatles of course, they have brought peace love and understanding to millions, but I can’t help but wonder how many people will be shelling out for music they’ve already bought before. It’s not inconceivable that the majority of buyers will be buying the music for at least the third time. Vinyl, CD, now remastered CD. 

Not to mention the ghost of John Lennon. My evening nap in front of the tv was interrupted by a badly-spliced voice over a dodgy clip of the great man himself. Laptops for every child may be a worthy cause, but does anyone have the right to put words into a dead man’s mouth? He may, if alive, have argued that clean water for all is a bigger priority - we simply don’t know. Press play and weep…