Nonfocussed Personal Blog

Okay, this is LiveJournal so apparently I'm supposed to be "all Emo" on it? That sucks.

From what I can tell, the whole "Emo" movement appears to be both an attitude and clothing style aimed at emulating the truly troubled souls in our peer groups. I guess is might be a spinoff of the usual attention-seeking behaviour of many people, influenced by the very special attention and care that a depressed and suicidal person will receive.

( When I was a kid ... )

Imagine this: your ISP has spent years setting up email filtering to help combat spam, phishing and fraud. It works most of the time, and you're happy to keep paying your $8/month for that email box sitting out there (for example, my Goldweb account has been around for over a decade, thankyou Goldweb).

Then one day, your ISP starts using Goodmail.

( But what does it mean? )