Yikes

I have recently faced the idea that there may be people I have met and liked who honestly believe that attacking the innocent and the powerless, especially girls or young women, is a good way to get things done.

I do not know if I am misunderstanding the person in question. It seems likely. I could be taking things too literally, a common failing of mine.* I could be misunderstanding in some other way. But even supposing this one is a misunderstanding, I've now faced the idea, and it's not at all pleasant.

Maybe I was in the Army too long. (I honestly believe the vast majority of US soldiers hold this value as strongly as I do.) You don't DO shit like that. You don't even THINK about THREATENING to do shit like that.

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* If I'm starting to get ticked off, it could be nothing more serious than my belief that what you say is what you mean. A useful tactic might be to remind both of us of this pattern. Humans are neither robots nor computers, and I forget that too often.

Is everybody an idiot today??

For the C/C++ geeks out there, here's a grumpymaking thing I stumbled upon today.

In a .h file:

void __inline FUNCTION_NAME(mystruct* foo)
{
   foo->addrValid = TRUE; 
}

And therefore, in my .c file:

// HORRIBLE HACK!  Only one .o in an executable can have StupidInclude.h included.
// It defines inline functions and the link step will fail if multiple .o files
// contain those definitions.  But every .o in this type of executable must have the
// app data structure definition... which, for this app, relies on StupidInclude.h.
// Therefore, there can be only one .o in this executable.
#include "echoer.c"
#include "listener.c"
#include "pinger.c"

I know there are ways around this, potentially involving (say) precompiled headers, but this is supposedly a simple proof-of-concept app so I'm not bothering for now. And seriously. Who would release something like that and not get fired? Never mind; I know the answer.

Spam, spam, spam, spam....

I got 5870 pieces of spam between about 11pm last night and right now. These are mail bounces; the spammers have now discovered my domain and are sending mail "from" it. I now have to delete all that crap. I also need to move to a system where I throw away everything addressed to my domain by default, and keep a whitelist set of To: usernames.

LJ comment notifications, however, are still intermittent at best. Many of them simply aren't making it (at least not in the last few days). I know of at least one other personal e-mail I'm missing. There are days when I honestly wonder why I bother having e-mail at all.

I think today is determined to make me blow up. I shall have to go find a useful (or fun) way to channel this explosion.

Spam finally killed me

I've turned off everything but my own addresses and they're still coming in faster than I can delete them.

I shut it all down.

I have no personal e-mail until further notice. Things won't even bounce; they'll just vanish.

Write here if you want me to see something.

All right, that's enough of that

[Not filtered]

51,027. Words just start showing up when I start looking at all the little holes that need spackling. Where did the other sorceress come from and how did she and my main character become friends? That was the hole I found and spackled tonight. And I never DID write the proposal. Wedding, yes; proposal, conspicuously missing. Oopsie.

Well, tough cookies. I'm ready to not see this story for several months. :-)

Hey, NaNo people? CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE. This thing could end an hour early if you don't watch out. It's a Daylight/Standard Time glitch. I know I hate it when a deadline sneaks up early and whacks me in the @#$!, so go check your profile settings.

E-mail is back

My personal e-mail has been turned back on, in the sense that if 1) you know the right address to reach me and 2) you aren't coming from a domain I've labeled awful and 3) you don't use any words I've labeled awful in the subject, you can reach me.

The minor upside to all this mess is that I now know how to say things like undeliverable, spam filter, failure, address book, and delivery status notification in several major languages.