{"id":553,"date":"2006-10-03T18:57:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=553"},"modified":"2006-10-03T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T18:57:12","slug":"real-life-online-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2006\/10\/real-life-online-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life \/ Online Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday I bought a song from iTunes by Drill Queen<\/a>, one of whose members I know in real life.<\/p>\n

On Monday a package from Amazon arrived for me, I didn’t remember ordering anything but thought that I might have done when I set up work as a delivery address (Amazon’s courier company is totally incapable of delivering to home). Today I checked the delivery note and discovered that someone else had bought it for me off my wishlist.<\/p>\n

I didn’t recognise the name and so checked my Gmail archive to see if it was anyone who had ever spoken to me. It was, a little while ago he had sent me this e-mail:<\/p>\n

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Hi there, you responded to one of my messages on Usenet, full details here.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets\/msg\/…<\/p>\n

I was wondering if you could please remove it from Google’s archives (you can do this by creating a Google Groups Account, looging in, finding the message and pressing remove).<\/p>\n

I’m just not keen on having that URL on the Internet now that it’s used for something different.<\/p>\n

Thank in advance,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Used for something different<\/i> means not used for an escort site anymore. (I’d answered a technical question about the site coding not anything related to the content.) Anyway, today I sent back the message<\/p>\n

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Bribery worked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nice to know that after all these years of giving free advice on Usenet I’m finally getting some reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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