. . . muttered the ogre

I was puzzled by a series of searches in my referral logs: somebody was going to Altavista for random collections of words:

chicago OR storages OR sherwood OR unemployed OR disputers
altercations OR slithers OR peculate OR sherwood OR unmodifiable
hogs OR sherwood OR aggrandize OR impositions OR reunion
buttery OR subtractor OR jacksonville OR hallway OR sherwood
scrambled OR flutters OR dandelions OR timeouts OR anton
cohen OR overestimating OR burnt OR bowdlerize OR sherwood
chordate OR rodriguez OR aspersions OR muttered OR gloat
stereo OR television OR scuttle OR sanborn OR anton
classical OR radiation OR monotonic OR sherwood OR waxing

Eventually I found that it’s Jamie Zawinski’s webcollage, looking for random images.

Very puzzling mail today:

Dear Anton,
I see you have added your self (or more specifically a link to your website) to my start up menu of my Microsoft XP. Very clever. [ . . . ]

Of course I know nothing about Windows configuration, and said so. My correspondent decided then that she must have clicked something without knowing it, as surely we’ve all done.