Tax season again. I always start early so I can optimize all of my deductions and be sure I’ve covered all of my expenses. I’ve loaded up all my income in a pseudo 1099 and as I receive 1099’s from clients, I add them to my 1099 worksheet and deduct from the bogus form (In Turbo Tax). So essentially, my taxes are ready to go. But as they say, the job’s not done until the paperwork’s done.

Speaking of paperwork, it’s spam season for me again. (What a segue) Late last year, I finally managed to use a good spam filter and dedicated whitelist to separate the wheat from the chaff. Of course, I have it set to delete immediately, so I wonder how much wheat is splling from the silo. But I digress…spam season again.

Spam season and tax season are synonmous with me today because I’ve been reading how talk of a tax rebate has already let loose the spammers and scammers. While everyone expects scammer’s to come out when there’s blood in the water, I thought it was laughable, because who would fall for something so stupid.

I guess I underestimated how bold and unrefined the spammers can be. Go figure…

P.S. Curiosity killed the cat, so don’t fill out the form just to see what happens.

P.P.S Firefox brings up a phish warning for the url shown.

P.P.P.S Internet Explorer offers to let you auto-fill the form for a percentage of the refund.

P.P.P.P.S. You didn’t believe the P.P.P.S. did you?

P.P.P.P.P.S. Baby You’re a Rich Man

When you are counting objects, you go “0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D…”.

When asked about a bus schedule, you wonder if it is 16 or 32 bits.

When your wife says “If you don’t turn off that darn machine and come to bed,then I am going to divorce you!”, and you chastise her for for omitting the else clause.

When you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the next page.

When you look for your car keys using: “grep keys /dev/pockets”

When after fooling around all day with routers etc, you pick up the phone and start dialing an IP number.

When you get in the elevator and double-press the button for the floor you want.

When not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your {network address} faster than your postal one.

When you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you’re doing the math in octal.

When you dream in 256 palettes of 256 colors.