Spam doesn’t normally catch my attention, but this particular piece of spam left as a comment on this site really caught my eye. I’ve read spam emails before, but never this ridiculous.

{Dear Sir. Mr. Dr. D.I.}
i am mr simon okoye from london,,the Executive director operations intercontinental Bank plc Branch london,28years in Banking system guideline,58 years of age on earth also a married man with three children two boys and one girl,below are there name,pius okoye,peter okoye,olivia okoye,also my wife merry okoye,

So Mr and Mrs Spammer and their three little Spammer kids say hello.

Please take my good day, how are you today,I hope all is transferring very well if so doxology.

Things are transferring very well thanks, and doxology to you too.

SwitzerlandworldBank was confirm about,the money on July 3rd1997, the owner of the money late, Mr,chife, sir, rocky-tiger-king-from isreal

I want to change my job title to Rocky Tiger King now.  From Israel is optional though.

address 22 abarbanel st apt 31 {attn c/o tzur,family rishon 75309 isreal nationality isreal citizen occupations computer formal bank director , age 46 date of birth 23-02-1962 late sir,was the formal executive bank director operations at mercantile discount bank limited isreal bank ,on the years 1994,17 branch 668 rishon lezion isreal ,

I think he’s saying the guy is from Israel… land of the rocky-tiger-kings.

Help to forward this to convert all the documents with
your name backups at Intercontinental bank Plc.
(Forward needed {to i.e.} Boss/Director)
{Your picture and what your occupation is}
{Your telecommunication number}
{Your account detail address of the bank}
{Your account signature}
{Your age and also your fax number}
{Your wife age and occupation}
{The number of your children and what their occupation is}
{The age of your father}
{The age of your mother}
{Your identity card number}

Consider it done Mr Okoye!

Are a must know
1,Bankers need to keep account records
2,Doctors need to keep patient report
3,Lawyers need to keep client report
4,Engineers need to make presentation
5,Secretary need to keep office record
6,Company need to keep trues record
7,Student need to make themselves globally relevant,
this are what the lord almighty created on his world

This is after he explained in great length how the US$965 million would be paid to me in 92 installments.

I promise you that all the money would be transferred into your own account and bear this in mind that all the money would be dividend into 70% is to 20%by 10%

Deep in my heart I want to believe him!

Thanks and Topic by (SA)
Mr. Simon Okoye Director (ie) Bank, and john Anth
Confirm (Sec) Bank.
Yours faithfully,
The Lord bear with us - Amen.70%, 20%.by 10%
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OPERATIONS INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC BRANCH LONDON,

Amen.70%, 20%.by 10% brother.

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that 2Clix has dropped their law suit against Whirlpool founder Simon Wright.  This is terrific news for Simon and for the Whirlpool community, some of whom were quite fearful as to the future of Whirlpool and the impact on online communities.

An Australian software firm, which was suing a broadband community website over unflattering comments published on its message board, has dropped its case.

The full story is available on the SMH website.

However, the story cannot be confirmed as the claim is still active in the Queensland Supreme Court system and has not been officially withdrawn.  The Whirlpool team has responded with a statement clarifying the media speculation.

Simon Wright and the Whirlpool legal team can confirm that they received informal notice from an employee of 2Clix that there may be an intention on the part of 2Clix to withdraw their Statement of Claim against Simon.

However Queensland Supreme Court records still show (as at time of posting this statement) that the legal action is current and active.

Whirlpool legal representatives have made repeated efforts to obtain formal confirmation from 2Clix’ legal representatives, Turnbull and Co without success. As such, we do not believe it appropriate to state that the action has been withdrawn and will not make such statements until it the matter is finalised.

Furthermore, the Whirlpool team has addressed a comment in the SMH article regarding the status of donations made by Whirlpool members to Simon Wright since the announcement of the case.

Whirlpool removed donation links soon after receiving the note from 2Clix. A statement that donations were discouraged due to uncertainty about what legal costs would be was already in place in every thread prior to this. Whirlpool intends to offer refunds to those that want them, once the matter is formally withdrawn and the extent of our legal costs are known.

The Windows Vista Team Blog has posted a handy list of all of the official Microsoft product team blogs.

Turns out I was already subscribed to seven of them but managed to pick up a couple of new ones that interest me.

Aaron runs a great blog but I’m quite amazed that Adobe is actually telling customers to look there for basic information like download links for their software.

I’ve had a few e-mails over the past few weeks, from people looking for the Adobe Flash Player installer, because Adobe tech support has been directing people here for links to download the latest version of Flash (9.0.47.0 as of this post).

Each time tech support has been giving them an incorrect URL, so I thought it might be useful to post the download links again. Hi Mr Adobe Tech Support, if you’re reading this.

Read on at StealthPuppy.com…

I did a search via the Internet Explorer 7 search bar today which happened to still be configured to use Live.com (the default setting). I was quickly reminded why I stick to Google instead of Live. Not only didn’t the first page of results have what I was looking for, it didn’t even have any Microsoft.com results.