Apr 09 2008

It Keeps On Coming

I have 104 emails in my personal inbox alone and for every one I respond to, two more arrive in its place. Eenie meenie delete time?

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Warning

This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.

As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.

Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.

18 Responses so far

  1. Hev says: April 9, 2008 at 5:57 pm # ·

    Oh no, don’t delete me! says the emails in your inbox. Hee hee, trying to make you laugh, Jem.

  2. Vixx says: April 9, 2008 at 7:16 pm # ·

    I bet your purse is too small for your fifties and your golden house too bright for your eyes, too.

    Sucks to be you, kiddo. ;p

    V xx

  3. Peter Green says: April 9, 2008 at 8:06 pm # ·

    Oh to be so popular! Blessing or curse?

  4. Jenny says: April 9, 2008 at 8:56 pm # ·

    What do they even consist of?!

    Help? Autograph signings?

  5. Jem says: April 9, 2008 at 9:05 pm # ·

    @Jenny: I want / please help / can you …

    Every now and again there’s also a “you suck” too

  6. Hannah says: April 9, 2008 at 9:16 pm # ·

    Hire someone to answer them for you! :P
    I wish I got you suck emails!

  7. Rammi says: April 9, 2008 at 9:55 pm # ·

    Are they the classic ‘you suck’ email, or the ‘you suck monkey balls and I hope you rot in hell’ ones?

  8. Aisling says: April 9, 2008 at 10:16 pm # ·

    Can I send you a “you suck,” letter? XP

  9. Phil says: April 9, 2008 at 10:29 pm # ·

    Surely you’re just asking for more by posting about it!

    I won’t email you though, just to keep the balance.

  10. Sarah says: April 9, 2008 at 10:41 pm # ·

    104? Nice…

  11. Julie says: April 10, 2008 at 12:16 am # ·

    I wish I had meaningful email once in a while. The kind you read and reply to…Right now my mails (except for a few related to work) are mostly “Thank you for joining the [topic] fanlisting!!1111!!11!” and “Get [drug name here] for free!”

  12. Paddy says: April 10, 2008 at 2:52 am # ·

    Ten bucks says you get at least ten “your site is broken” from people who didn’t remember CSS naked day.

  13. Skye says: April 10, 2008 at 3:05 am # ·

    Dear Jem,
    I want / please help / can you …
    If you don’t help me, you suck.

    Love, Skye

  14. Jem says: April 10, 2008 at 8:01 am # ·

    Surely you’re just asking for more by posting about it!

    Well, I thought people would take the hint and not email me ;)

    Ten bucks says you get at least ten “your site is broken” from people who didn’t remember CSS naked day.

    four..

    LOL@Skye, that was great!

  15. Rachael says: April 10, 2008 at 8:14 am # ·

    *looks at own inbox*

    I have seven emails. Four are spam. Three don’t require a reply.

  16. Skye says: April 11, 2008 at 2:36 am # ·

    My pleasure :-D

  17. Ditch the Distractions — jemjabella.co.uk says: April 12, 2008 at 1:23 pm # ·

    [...] don’t know if all of you caught my latest aside, whining about the state of my inbox. It’s frequently above the 100-150 mark these days and I can’t seem to get it down. [...]

  18. Rhian says: April 12, 2008 at 3:07 pm # ·

    Gmail filters are the best thing ever. If you can filter stuff away from your inbox and put them into categories than it’s easier to mass delete stuff lol