Weird

So I got this spam email saying something like, "Hi, helen99, work from home with Google online!"

For some reason I decided to view the source code of the email. The top part of the email source code contained the expected code for the "work from home" link (which had nothing to do with Google) and an "unsubscribe" link (which led to a page called "confirmation_WLMT209.html"), Heh. Like I said, nothing unexpected.

When (after scanning for viruses) I viewed this email as an HTML page, it showed these links, and that was it - nothing else.

The weird part about this was, in the source code below the links appeared the following tag: STYLE (enclosed in the usual triangle brackets). And after the STYLE tag was a fantastically gloom and doom breakdown of the current horrors of the economy and unemployment, complete with a Bloomberg report on all the major banks. None of this showed up in the email at all, nor was anyone likely to see it unless they decided to look at the source code.

I tested the STYLE tag by creating a simple HTML page and using this tag to hide text. It works. The text between STYLE and /STYLE didn't show. Only the text after the /STYLE showed up.

Sithreal update

The last of the scabs has fallen off, and the scar is smoothing out rapidly. The sensitivity has gone down to the point where he lets me rub his tummy lightly (before he wouldn't let me get near it). As his fur grows back in and it smooths out even more and the skin on the side of the incision relaxes a bit, the sensitivity will decrease. We've taken the collar off now (even at night), and he's free to roam the house. He got used to having that room to himself, though, so sometimes he asks to be let in. I've decided that it might improve his health if he has his own territory where he can get stress-free chill time away from the others if he needs it, so we let him in there whenever he wants and to feed him. Thus falls the last cat-free bastion in the house.