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I have, as some of you may know, way too many frickin' email accounts. Work email, home email, web email for general use, web email for the VicMage.Asia game, web email for deflecting spam when I register a software product, etc. I *also* have a web email address that came with my account when I registered the domain name megaloceros.net. When I switched browsers to Mozilla 1.0, I thought I had successfully configured Mozilla Mail to pick up both my normal home email and my megaloceros email.
WRONG.
No fault of Mozilla's. I just had the email configuration all farblondjet. Out of a sneaking suspicion that I'd missed something, I went to the webmail access for that account today, and found that I had ten unread emails waiting for me. Seven of them were product updates from martialartsmart.com (I bought a wooden practice sword from them a while ago). three were from real people. Sorry I didn't respond to the email about the Economist, or the email about the chicken being cooked in a lava flow, guys...
The third email was from back in June, so you can imagine I was deeply embarrassed not to have seen it before. I was even MORE deeply embarrassed when I saw the subject line- "Re: Basic Chinese History". Erp, thought I, someone actually bothered to read that site and I haven't seen their email even though it's months old. Well, I deserve whatever flaying I get, right?
Imagine my surprise when it wasn't a flaying at all, but a friendly note to the effect of 'good site, nicely done, there's problems with the part on eunuchs but I can help you fix that, overall though pretty good'. Signed by someone who actually researched the topic IN THE ACTUAL COUNTRY OF CHINA and who's got a book coming out this month on Asian dragons.
Somebody read my site! Somwbody other than people I actually KNOW read my site! And it didn't suck!
'Scuse me while I do the Sekrit Jesuit Happy Dance.
*ahem* Okay. Today's pulp survival tip is #56. If you have to pick up a snake that's longer than your arm, ask yourself this question: am I Steve Irwin? If the answer is no, then pick the snake up immediately behind its head, or pick it up with a very long stick. (If the answer is yes, why the hell do you need this list?)
WRONG.
No fault of Mozilla's. I just had the email configuration all farblondjet. Out of a sneaking suspicion that I'd missed something, I went to the webmail access for that account today, and found that I had ten unread emails waiting for me. Seven of them were product updates from martialartsmart.com (I bought a wooden practice sword from them a while ago). three were from real people. Sorry I didn't respond to the email about the Economist, or the email about the chicken being cooked in a lava flow, guys...
The third email was from back in June, so you can imagine I was deeply embarrassed not to have seen it before. I was even MORE deeply embarrassed when I saw the subject line- "Re: Basic Chinese History". Erp, thought I, someone actually bothered to read that site and I haven't seen their email even though it's months old. Well, I deserve whatever flaying I get, right?
Imagine my surprise when it wasn't a flaying at all, but a friendly note to the effect of 'good site, nicely done, there's problems with the part on eunuchs but I can help you fix that, overall though pretty good'. Signed by someone who actually researched the topic IN THE ACTUAL COUNTRY OF CHINA and who's got a book coming out this month on Asian dragons.
Somebody read my site! Somwbody other than people I actually KNOW read my site! And it didn't suck!
'Scuse me while I do the Sekrit Jesuit Happy Dance.
*ahem* Okay. Today's pulp survival tip is #56. If you have to pick up a snake that's longer than your arm, ask yourself this question: am I Steve Irwin? If the answer is no, then pick the snake up immediately behind its head, or pick it up with a very long stick. (If the answer is yes, why the hell do you need this list?)
