I saw wordle go through Matt’s flickr so tried it out. The image was created from the rss feed for this blog.

First the griping; they don’t let you save the image but say that if you somehow manage to, then you have to attribute them and apply a Creative Commons license. If you’re going to bother with CC licensing, why not have a save option? Seems defeatist or such.

But it’s pretty interesting which words come up a lot. No surprise seeing “things”, which is my common word for vaguery. So much so that I’ve started using “bits” for a touch of variance. Otherwise, except for bowling popping up out of nowhere it’s pretty centric around.

Let’s say that hypothetically you sent an email saying something like,

My HSA still doesn’t have the 2/28/09 Employee or Employer deposits yet. What’s up?

And someone hypothetically wrote back,

You really need to read your messages before you sent them, because your tone is often negative.

Deposits are going in tomorrow.

In this hypothetical situation, you didn’t have a scheduled HSA payment bounce because the 2/28 deposit didn’t go in, and you didn’t send that email on the 9th, and you didn’t get that response on the 12th. Let’s just say that, and ignore it.

Would you start using emoticons in work email? Googling for “smileys in work email” and “emoticons at work” returns only stupid graphic emoticon web spam in the top results.

If I had thought about this beforehand, I would have a really hard time not responding with a “Actually, you need to not be so negative and assume I’m a jerk. Jerk.” or some snipe remark about charging interest until the deposit is there + a late fee. Because I’m sarcastic as hell, but I’d never for a moment consider myself negative. Maybe compromise on being a ‘realist’ or such, but not negative.

Blah. The world sucks.