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So.. I open my email and I have a mail with Subject:

僕にも出来た

Which my computer and I translated as: “Even I could do it!”

The message was:
やっぱり女子〇生とズッコンバッコン!

Which is probably obscene. I’m given the impression the O symbol is obscene and I have no idea what Zucone-Bacone means. So it sort of looks like:
After all the woman (something maybe obscene) raw and Zucone-Bacone.

I’m certain my more fluent in Japanese readers can shake their heads at this.

But yes.. it looks like Spam isn’t just for English anymore. So that leaves the question:

English:Nigeria :: Japanese:????

There is a site called, “Myspace.com”

Over the last few days I have received invitations to random ‘groups’ much like tribe, yahoo, lj, or any other community driven environment. Most have been utterly irrelevant.

Today’s however, has given me a really weird and inexplicable feeling.

The group is called, “It’s Andrei With An “i” You Bastards!”

The group shows pictures of the members with their names under them. There’s the group leader, “Andrei”, the guy who looks like he’s in a hospital bed, “Andrei” and the other 10 or so guys named Andrei.

Now, as much as I’ve gone to exorcise my birth name, I admit that “Andrei” is an adopted name. In such, there is this mix of feeling both an outsider and part of the group. (With all due respects to my dear brother apsulute)

Gonna mull these feelings 😉

He who used to tell people 2 g’s not because there was 1 but because there wasn’t 3 🙂

By now we’ve all be 419’ed in our email. If you’re really lucky, someone has tried to 419 you via IM.

Today I learned about a new 419 variant. Now, a 419 no longer has to do with dead relatives. It is simply a scheme designed to extract money illegally from you as an overseas business arrangement. The reason they are called 419 is because they typically originate from Nigerian Cybercafes where people are told what to type and how to run them.

They are becoming more and more effective because they prey on holes in our system.

This was today’s experience: click and return here to comment.

I am curious…

I saw a survey like this a while ago…

I’m doing some independent research. I’ve listed a whole bunch of net services. I’m curious which ones you use. Doesn’t matter if it’s regularly or irregularly. However, you must still use it on occasion. If you played with it and abandoned it, you can leave it blank.

I guess I should state that this is for my own research. I will not sell, release, etc… anyone’s individual data. Also, I’m only asking if you use a service. You do not (and should not) tell me your IDs on these services. That’s not the point of the research.

In the text boxes, feel free to list any net-style services you feel may be missing. In commentary feel free to comment on the list or elabourate why certain things may be missing or be over represented here.

Please pass this posting onto friends. The more people I get to respond to this, the better for the information I’m looking for. I’m hoping to get a sampling of at least 200 responses. Please promote 🙂

Thanks!

Click thru for the poll