Paul Hammond's Blog

I was looking through some old email at the weekend and found a classic example of a "reply all" mistake.  I have pasted the edited thread below, it is in chronological order, and only the names have changed.  The rest is exactly as it happened.  Outstanding.

Leave a comment if you have any better ones.

From: A N Other
Sent: Fri 7/19/2002 3:28 PM
To: Active Server Pages Discussion Alias
Subject: web service question
Anyone can help on this?  We have a .NET class called MessageDoctor that will need to <snip_innocent_request_for_ASP_help />

From: Em Barrassed
Sent: Mon 7/22/2002 3:07 PM
To: A N Other; Active Server Pages Discussion Alias
Subject: RE: web service question
I usually use a wire brush and comet.  But then I would bleed for a week.  Once the scabs fell off I felt great.

From: Em Barrassed
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 1:11 PM
To: A N Other; Active Server Pages Discussion Alias
Subject: RE: web service question
I'm sorry about that.  I replied to the wrong e-mail.   Don't ask.

I can quickly add links to google or links to dictionary.com using content filters.  Nice.

Testing the picture uploading facilities...

I have used MSN Spaces for a while now, and it is pretty cool.  I like the photo albums and the lists, and of course the integration with MSN Messenger so people can see when it has been updated.

However, I am trying this as an experiment; I wanted to try out a proper grown up blogging tool. 

Had some fun setting it up.  For a while I couldn't get a lot of the sub-pieces working (comments, permalinks) etc.  This is because dasBlog re-writes URLs and has an HTTP Handler to cope with that.  This means that the URL you visit doesn't really exist and is mapped by some code.  Unfortunately my hosting provider doesn't allow "non-existant" URLs and instead returns a 404 before the handler kicks in.  So, I took a look through the source code and realised I had missed a really obvious dasBlog config setting to turn off URL rewriting!  Now it all seems to be working...