Brain Handles

I previously wrote about how lame I am (BTW - I didn't get the job... ), but today, I include my wife in the geekery.

If you've read my blog assiduously, all three of you, you know we enjoy BBC America and some of its sci-fi and comedy offerings. Anyhoo, we were watching "That Mitchell and Webb Look" (it's no "Little Britain", but it'll do) and they were doing a sketch where two Nazi SS officers were discussing whether or not they were "the baddies."

They're on the Russian front, and as an aside in the conversation, one of them says: "If there's anything we've learned in the last thousand miles of retreat, it's that Soviet agriculture is in dire need of mechanization." My wife and I busted up.

We are such geeks.

Just got a new job scam. They're very vague and don't give any details, but they're showing big red flags and you just should not reply to find out more. Here's the text:

Subject: Representative Needed
From: "The Case Company (UK) Ltd" <info@case.co.uk>
To: undisclosed-recipients

We are one of the fastest growing company here in UK.Due to increase in
customers we are seeking for representative in CANADA & U.S.A. Interested
persons should email the Information Below to this email
address(thecasecom@sify.com) 1.NAME 2,ADDRESS 3, COUNTRY, 4
PHONE NUMBER 5, AGE.
Regards
Mrs.Butler Julie.
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This message was sent using http://webmail.coqui.net

Okay, red flags...

• Sent via coqui.net, a free web mail service in Puerto Rico, and that's backed up by the underlying mail headers. That pretty much shows that the info@case.co.uk "from" address was forged.
• Rather than ask you to reply to them at case.co.uk, they ask you to reply to an address at sify.com, a Yahoo-like portal in India with free webmail accounts.
• If they were really in the UK, their English might be a little better.

Don't reply to these people, and if you have, ignore further communications from them. I don't know what their scam is, but I can tell you right now, they're showing all the signs of a scam.

Best of luck to you all.

Tags: job scams

Very quick thought.

I handle some valuable real estate on an intranet portal for my current contract. And I regularly deal with stakeholders from around the company who want brief announcements posted there.

Today, I got one where their suggested headline was "We hear you!"

My response to them was: "Our style guidelines prohibit exclamation points in headlines. Besides, how can you hear them if you're shouting at them?"

Here are the raw numbers from today's primaries. With 99% of precincts reporting, Hillary's 51% to 49% win is a rounding error. Out of one and a quarter million votes, she leads by less than 23,000 votes for an actual tally of 50.49% to 49.51% Right now, with maybe 10-12k votes to be counted, her lead is not 2%, but less than one.

In the popular vote count, if things hold, Obama will add over 230,000 votes to his lead. And in the delegate count, it's looking like he'll net 12 more delegates than Hillary. He could do a bit better or a bit worse, but there's not a huge margin by which these numbers can change.

Hillary's camp will spin it 8 ways from Sunday, and try to claim it was really a major win and validation that she's the candidate who can win the general election, but she's undone and unspun tonight. +12 for the delegate lead and +230,000 for the popular vote lead... for Obama.

Yippee-cai-yeah, Hillary.

Tags: Obama