<OT> HTML mail from Zoki...

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

Scribbling feverishly on April 22, Zoran managed to emit:
> *** Amazing that this should happen to me... Anyway, please accept yet
> another excuse from me concerning this mailing mess which has been going
> on for too long...
> 
> I am in a not to be envied position of being "forced" to use Windows OS &
> applis on a IBM portable as an ongoing test procedure for equipping the
> collaborators of our company.

"Not to be envied," indeed. On the other hand, it *does* give you
plenty of opportunity to highlight all of Windows' misfeatures. ;-)

> A little history just to put you in the right context:
> 
> On one side there are IBM Thinkpads (A22e, Celeron's), on the other the
> account manager which seems to own shares of Microsoft as he is been
> pushing that companies products like it were his own and in the middle you
> have me, big mouth, a beard, long hair and not wearing suits and a tie
> when going to a board meeting... On top of it my office is full of
> penguins and calendar pictures of naked Linux servers on the walls ;-).

Sounds like business as usual in corporate <insert name of country
here>. And you're the pea under the princess' mattress. :-) [1]

> A lot of people have been severely p***** off ever since I joined the
> company as they have not been able to do what they did before: Buy NT or
> W2k servers and get a raise for a job well done.

Troublemaker.

[snip]

> Anyway, I will be lurking on the list for as long as this testing goes on
> because I cannot trust this sh** to work the way it should and I do not
> want to miss any of the mails either.

I didn't mean to come across harshly. Mutt kindly points out HTML
email without decoding it (which it can be easily configured to do,
of course -- I'm a lazy chump). 

> The next message I send will be either after I succeed shoving Linux on
> the Thinkpads through the account managers throat or after having gotten
> my first unemployment cheque...

For some reason, I have this vivid image clearly in my mind's eye...

> P.S. This mail brought to you from my home server and Pine... ;-)

:-)

[1] How's *that* for mixing metaphors? 

Kurt
-- 
Chicken Little was right.