I was all set to do a rant about how I was so stupid as to sign up for a one-year contract with eMusic, so I couldn’t cancel immediately now that they’re in their new business model. But I found the coolest Halloween song ever there today, and since I’m still paying for the service I downloaded it there rather than paying $0.99 at the iTunes Store.

Anyway, the track: Philly Joe Jones’ Sextet: “Blues for Dracula”… with Lenny Bruce voicing the legendary count as some sort of beat vampire in the first half of the track. Dig.

I was thrilled when UserLand rolled out the Spam-Free Mailto feature for Manila, which removed email addresses from my weblog’s UI and replaced them with a simple contact form. Should prevent spammers from finding me via my blog, right?

Well, except for really really dedicated spammers. I got the following mail this morning. Note the spam-free mailto features at the top.

UserLand, can we include IP address in the autogenerated mail?

Dr.Edward Thompson. [1] sent this email to you through Jarrett House North [2] regarding this page [3].

HEAD OFFICE:
EURO-AFRO SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY NL.
BURDENSTREET 21B
1053 DS AMSTERDAM,
THE NERTHERLANDS.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF: HWS/200118308/03
BATCH: 18/203/JJS.
DATE: 31/10/2003

Attention:Sir,

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you about the release of today the 31st October, 2003 of the EURO-AFRO SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMS held on the 28th Jenuary 2003, Your company name attached ticket number: 564 -75600545 – 188 with serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 3-11-27-30-34 – 41, which consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of UD$2MILLION in cash credited to file HWS/200118308/03. <snip>