It may seem that my blog has been abnormally empty of late, but really there hasn't been all that much going on. Work is pretty much the same from one day to the next... I write some code. Occasionally something mildly interesting happens, as did last weekend when a power failure destroyed the computer we were using to back up our code. So we set up another computer to manage that... there are lots of computers lying around here. It's actually significantly faster than the old one.
We had a family reunion last week, to which I was able to go. We were near Pittsburgh, with all of my mom's sisters and there copious offspring. And our grandparents. We all had fun.
I have also been playing with a Nigerian Scammer lately, although this one claims to be from South Africa. She claims to be some minister of something or other that aided some company in over-invoicing the government to the tune of $25 million. In exchange for helping her, I will receive $5 million. Apparently, scamming people is Nigeria's 4th or 5th largest industry! She sent me a scanned image of a fake passport, so in return I sent a picture of my driver's license that I first forged in photoshop to eliminate any useful information. I changed all the numbers, my address, and forged my own signature. I accidentally messed up the "Under 21 until" date, but she doesn't seem to have noticed! Well, that's not really surprising, since I purposely sent a poor quality image to mask my not-so-skillful forgery (most obvious on the "12"s).
