Even if I’m not, I don’t care if you use my letters or not. :) Consider this my super official totally legal-binding approval.

I want a mouse.

On a good week I’d get about 2-3 emails. On a really good week one of those would be good to write up.

The plus side though is that one can easily answer that many emails, even if they’re not interesting enough to make it into print, which does make you some friends amongst the less-IT-savvy crowd.

The other plus side is that if you do have to make something up, you can make it something you already know about, rather than something needing extensive research. Like whatever problem you solved on your Dad’s pc that week. :)

Oh and have a few beers? Never! ;)

Being assigned the letters column used to make me shudder every month when I was a full time staffer, there was just no content that came through the mailbox that was ever of much use.
On the plus side though it allowed me to have some pretty amusing arguments with myself over the years, which were eventually made all the more amusing by the fact that real people started responding to my imaginary arguments.
To think that all those years ago when one of my own scratchy letters got published I was straight onto the forums with a scan to brag about it. That kind of lost its magic though when it became my job to invent them later on.

Never actually had many people claim their prizes either

But, it also explains why even though I’ve offered some really good ones (IMHO) I’ve only ever won the mouse once. Maybe I’ll change my name or something…