The Horse Whisperer

[caddyman]

The search for a new security pass is concluded. I now have a shiny new pass that the readers at the entry stiles can read and best of all, since the bloke issuing them is retiring in three weeks, he offered me the opportunity of a new photo for it, or to continue with the picture taken in 1997, before I started shaving the wisps of hair off the top of my gorgeous bonce.

It amuses me to wander around with a picture of me aged 38 on an obviously new pass. It’s recognisably me and I can pretend that it was a recent picture and that the pressure is getting to me.

It’s not much, but it amuses me.

Speaking of amusement, anyone who has a Twitter account and who uses it relatively frequently could do much worse than follow the mighty @Horse_eBooks. Horse eBooks is that rarity amongst spam bots; it is so bad at what it does that the only people bothered by it are people who choose to be bothered by it. It doesn’t seek out key words and follow you, it simply tweets into the void and since it seems to have been abandoned by the person who set it up, it just has a life of its own.

I have done minimal research using Google, but it appears that it was set up by a Russian or Ukrainian to sell bloody awful eBooks about horses. It only rarely links to anything and I understand that those links are usually dead anyway. Mainly, it quotes random bits of text from the books it is supposed to be hawking. But because there is no direction, the quotes are entirely random, often starting and stopping in the middle of sentences. Much of it is forgettable, but rather more frequently than you might imagine, @Horse_eBooks will quote an absolute peach of gnomic wisdom.

May favourite so far, has been captured in this cartoon, which appeared on a fan fiction site dedicated to the output of this marvellous spambot:



Google for more information, or go here: http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-ballad-of-horse_ebooks

Comments

[romney.livejournal.com]

Thanky - I'm hooked!