Good Luck & Bad Luck in the Wired World

An e-mail was circulated earlier this week by a colleague.. about some "chinese proverbs that originated from Netherlands" (...not sure what that means myself :p). The content went something along the lines of "with money... you can buy a bed, but not sleep; you can afford to see a doctor, but you can't buy health; you can buy a house but not a home; you can buy sex but not love".. and so on.. (by the way, I beg to differ with the last one- in certain Asian countries, you can buy love).

What follows was a long request, the gist of which is that I must forward the e-mail to 20 people or suffer bad luck. Maybe it's time to charge people for e-mails, then they will think a bit harder before deciding to spam everyone with good luck or bad luck messages.

I like this saying "Luck is a dividend of sweat- the harder I work, the luckier I get"- it was probably by the late Ray Kroc, but don't quote me on it.

What did I do? I deleted the message. I'm personally not a fan of spam. Let's see how my luck holds out- I've got an assignment to pass up on Monday & I'm still doing it!