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Ok, don’t freak out…there are still plenty of places to waste time on the Internet.  Just Google something, anything…

But seriously, maybe it’s just me or has anyone else noticed that when using IE7 to read a story on slashdot, there is no way to change the threshold on the comments?

In Firefox or Safari, it works just great…you get a nice menu where you can adjust the comment threshold like this:

In IE7, no such menu, all I get is a dreaded “Error on page.”  This is the first place that I’ve seen that doesn’t work with IE7.  Actually, I take that back, github also has some issues when trying to use IE7 to navigate around.

So besides griping, is this a sign of things to come?  Granted, I’d bet that most people going to slashdot/github may be more inclined to use alternative browsers that implement web standards more vigorously, but will more websites start foregoing IE?

As amazing as this may sound, I’m pretty sure that before tonight, I have never received a scam email. I’ve gotten tons of spam, but never a scam.  Perhaps I’m a bit too excited about this turn of events but, I’ve never won a lottery before!

It’s amazing to me that these scams still work.  If they didn’t, why on earth would they continue to be sent out?  Why would there be site after site explaining the scam if people didn’t respond to them?

What annoys me is that it seems as if the scammers aren’t even trying.  Here’s the email I received:

Subject:CLAIM YOUR PRICE

We the Bonoloto Combinacion Ganadora wishes
you mery xmas and prosperous new year in advance. 

We wish to inform you that, you are lucky
to have been selected among the 50
Recipients,your Email Address attached
to a Ticket Numbers(7 9 17 20 23 27)
has won an Award Sum of 1,200,000.00.
(One Million Two Hundred Thousand Euros)
in Bonoloto. Combinacion Ganadora, Madrid,
Spain. 

For further inquiry and processment of
your prize fund,please Contact
our Fiduciary Agent:
...blah, blah, blah

Now, I’m not the best at grammar, but come on, just hit F7 before pasting this text into a mass email.

What really annoys me, is if they send this garbage out as-is and people respond to it, what does that say about people in general?