My internals are still unhappy with me since yesterday; I don’t really know what I’ve done to annoy them. I’ve tried apologising, but it hasn’t helped. Plus I’m kind of blocked, creatively – not sure where I’m going or how to get there

However, did actually get some words in, unlike yesterday. I do dislike ending the day on a zero count.

Hopefully, I’ll feel better tomorrow; I still have my Evil Backup Plan, in that I have taken the last week of November off.

The Spam Surge seems to have slackened off some, but I have still put in place one of the easier anti-Spam strategies; you keep your Inbox completely clean. Everything that you expect to come into your mailbox you have a Filter set up to put it into a folder of some kind. That way, pretty much everything that turns up in your Inbox is either Spam, or something you haven’t yet set up a filter for.

All this means is that when you check your mail, you can select them all (usually Control+a), deselect any messages that aren’t spam, and then there should be some simple keystrokes to delete all the junk (I use Thunderbird, so that’s Control+m to mark them as read, then j to flag them a Junk (which also puts them in the Trash). Easy peasy.