All day long Mailsmith has been making my computer speakers buzz and crackle every time it downloads new mail. It finally annoyed me enough that I reported it as a bug. Rich Siegel, BB's president, wrote back within minutes:

Looked at your Notification preferences recently? Say, on April 1st?

Oh brother. Yep, there it is in the Notification panel of the prefs window: a new pref that wasn't there yesterday, called, "Deliver 2kV Electric Shock." (In other words, every time Mailsmith downloads new mail today, it's supposedly setting my hair on end... or on fire.)

Good one, guys. Now which of you wants to be the first to try out the new chair I'm building for you?   }:->

Jed, Darren, and hopefully Mark will all be here for dinner and Big Boggle tonight. Corinne's whipped up a feast for us (of course), but if I know my wife she'll retire to parts-unknown.

It's "bosy's-night-in" tonight, and the din of shaking Boggle Dice will rattle the eardrums -- and the nerves -- of the townsfolk for a mile in every direction. Hopefully the shaking won't cuase a Major Event this time... I hate it when the military comes knocking on the door.

"Sorry, Captain. No, we're not firing automatic weapons. We're just playing Big Boggle again... you know how loud that can get, in the wrong hands."

I really considered running a press release today about Macrobyte buying Frontier, or buying out UserLand.

Just didn't have the heart. Half of the intended audience would find it much too funny, and the other half probably wouldn't find it funny at all.

Buck, buck.

Seems Bare Bones had more than one bit of folly up their sleeves today.

By using state of the art genetic algorithms executing in an expandable self-modifying neural network, the PAD makes possible unlimited flexibility of input methods, and nearly instantaneous storage and retrieval of data.

Not the most original... I think they must be worn out from all they work they put into Mailsmith 1.5 (which is definitely not an April Fool's joke).