Morgalogue

One of the most enjoyable points of my working day is opening my laptop in the morning and reading through some of the hundreds of raving, obscure junkmails sent to the Energy Forum account, from perverse Spamtrepreneurs from all over the world.

I’ve been pretty lucky over the years – with a fatal sounding e-mail address like nagromksi, it’s normally my mails that get quarantined rather than the other way round. So, maybe you’ve seen all these before but I haven’t so thought I’d give you my Spam Hall of Fame thus far. (more…)

I feel a rant brewing …. It’s 6am, I’ve been awake since 4.30am. This is not an unusual scenario though I wish desperately that it was.

6am in Sri Lanka is the equivalent of our 8.30am. People are up and about and going to work, dogs are barking, cars and buses are beeping happily at eachother, exotic birds screech, fervent religious chanting is tannoyed across the neighbourhood, drumming wafts back in response and the old man across the courtyard at exactly 6.10, spends 15 minutes hacking up phlegm. Despite the fact that people generally start work at 8.30/9am, by 6am the entire country is in full swing. Utter Bastards. (more…)