Well I've finally finished customising my software, at least.. for now. Ridiculously busy over the past couple of days. I thought today was Wednesday when it was Thursday. It's now actually Friday but I'm posting this Thursday night. Anyway.. today I tutored one of the undergrads, and it was... awful. The person who I'm tutoring does not know any programming whatsoever even though he is studying IT. The subject, data structures and algorithms, has a substantial programming component. He's really struggling and it would be truly a miracle if he gets something together. What on Earth are they teaching in schools?? Apparently he got credit at the uni because he "touched" on object orientation 6 years ago and even then he said it was really easy.
My software's not going to go retail cos the corporation couldn't find anyone to distribute it so they're doing it online instead. Ah well I'll just have to look for other avenues. Perhaps the person who I communicate with will know of other people who I can approach to get it sold retail.
I'm now a part time consultant for Ericsson writing their Office macros. They have hundreds of graphs to generate from their huge logs of cellular phone data. It's cool what you can do with the macros, despite its obselete language implemenation i.e. VB. I have to say I've never written a macro before last Thursday but now I'm getting pretty good at it. I'll add it as another skill that I have to my list of other skills. VB is such a stupid language sometimes but it's ridiculously popular, probably assisted by it being built into Office. I'm pretty sure I can sell these macros if I wanted to.
Some idiot last night spammed a heck lot of inboxes and made the return address my company domain. I received about a thousand bounced messages last night and had to turn off my catchall email address.
So what is a catchall email address.. ?
if your domain is ihatespam.com, you can set up a catchall email address that grabs all email directed to *@ihatespam.com to an email address, for example execute_all_spammers@ihatespam.com
So email sent to spammers_suck@ihatespam.com, spammers_must_die@ihatespam.com will be sent to execute_all_spammers@ihatespam.com
The idiot used return email addresses such as random names like Joe.Schome@mydomain.com and sent them to an invalid email, which resulted in the email being sent to mydomain.com and flooding my inbox.
I hate spammers.
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