Programmer Perks

Sure, I was at work until 11:30 last night moving a database so this morning's demo would be faster. But in what other job would a birthday/graduation cake party be followed by an over-the-cube-walls object fight featuring mouse pads, mini kush balls, floppy frisbees, paper towels, a roll of labels, rolled up napkins, and Frosted Mini-Wheat projectiles?

Ambiguspam

Considering how much spam I get by email, I'm impressed how little comment spam I get on LiveJournal. I'm not even sure if the random comments are spam. There's no way for the poster to profit from that comment, but if it's legitimately someone who wants to learn English there's no contact information to start a conversation.

Regardless, I doubt the person is in the UAE:
host 87.118.106.117
117.106.118.87.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ns.km21811-02.keymachine.de.

keymachine.de appears to be a web hosting company in Germany.