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Letters to the Webmaster

I am starting this section for the amusement of all. These are real examples of emails sent to a university webmaster. Names have been changed to protect the ignorant. Spelling has not been corrected.

Is there any way you can remove the image of the ‘Arabic language training’ on the main PCU page? I do not care to see this every time I visit PCU’s main page.
Thank You,
Afraid of the World
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Hello,
I am interested in donating my dead body to your college for whatever you do with dead bodies. I am wondering how I go about setting this up. I am a healthy person at this time. I have only been in the hospital 2 times in my life. Once when I was a kid I went in for some tests. Then when my son was born 30 yrs ago I had him by way of c section. The first time I was there for a day and a night and then when my son was born I was home in three days. These are the only stays I have had in the hospital. I am 53 yrs old. I am a little overweight.
I dont smoke or drink or do drugs(other than a tylenol or ibruprofen ocassionally).
Please let me know what I must do to get on your program.
Thank you in advance.
yours truly, Ima Planner

Ah, Sweet Vengeance

I am not one for vengeance for vengeance's sake. But, I can appreciate when it is artfully or cleverly enacted. Case in point the play that is making its way through the IT higher ed community. It is entitled, "A Failure of Character or The Ruination of a University IT Department - A Most Lamentable Farce of Four Acts As Performed by a Company of lavishly-paid IT Executives (Each one a Worthy Tragi-Comedian)" by P.C. MacGoogle, Layoffee of this Borough. It of course chronicles the spiral of the UW IT department which magically ran up a $10M deficit and laid off 66 of its employees. As the back cover explains, "These scenes from a disaster in the making will chill the soul of every application developer, network engineer, project manager, database administrator, documentation specialist, middle manager, and software engineer who has labored under powerful but fundamentally misguided IT leadership. Read it, weep, and shudder.

Oh, Come On!

Dear Bb:
Once again, we are over. I still do not understand how you missed the press releases, and completely ignored the discussions we had over the last several months. That really is the crux our of problem - why we could not work - you just don't listen! You exist in your own little world where everything is fine and we will just keep putting all of the effort in to the relationship while you sit back and cash the checks. Those days have come to an end.
Your futile attempts to cling to our relationship are tiresome. You have called and called. We have done what you requested, explicitly telling you that yes indeed we are over. Fine, you want our break up in writing, you have it. Now walk away and let's be civil about this.
But, no. Apparently, you cannot be adult about this. You want to drag this out as long as possible. You kept our data for months then conveniently send it to us on a corrupted disk. This is ridiculous. We were willing to be civil here. Why can't you?!
Sincerely,
That School in the South

University Really Knows Best (At Least in this Instance)

B&N operates several university bookstores across the nation. A corporate entity, they want to exist on the campus without following any of the rules of the campus - as they have their own. This would be fine if we did not have evidence stating that their rules suck and their inadequacies pose a risk to our campuses. Case in point. Our campus uses PEAP authenticated secure wireless. I have every reasonable confidence in securely utilizing credit cards and check bank statements via my laptop in this environment. However, if I walk into the bookstore on campus, I am no longer assured of this level of security. How do I know if I have switched to an open, corporate wireless environment?! Do I really understand that this environment is a wide open one? So we battle the corporate offices to no avail. Only to then find out that the security of their transaction systems is made of duct tape and baling wire. B&N is implicated in the hugest corporate exposure of credit card information in the nation's history. I erroneously trusted them with my personal data. Why the hell would I trust them with the security of my network or the security of my campus community?

Fake Flash = Zombies

Adobe: Beware of fake Flash downloads by ZDNet's Ryan Naraine -- Amidst confirmed reports that malicious hackers are starting to use fake Flash Player downloads as social engineering lures for malware, Adobe has issued a call-to-arms for users to validate installers before downloading software updates. The company’s notice comes on the heels of malware attacks on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter that attempt to trick Windows users into [...]