Dude! You got spam from Dell!

We got some post from Dell one day, a catalogue. I presumed it was for my dad (who doesn't live with us anymore) and, as I have no interest in buying a Dell computer, I just left it one the table by the door.

A few minutes ago, my mum picked up the catalogue and told me that, in fact, it was addressed to me.

I was a bit puzzled. I've never bought anything from Dell before. I have gotten strange spam from domain registrars who have harvested my information from my whois records. It's possible Dell used that.

As it turns out, my only relationship with Dell is that I applied for a job there once, and had a single interview.

This means that Dell are either harvesting addresses from the whois records, or they are using job application records for marketing purposes. Both possibilities are highly annoying, and only make Dell seem like a jackass.

I still want one of their sweet new 30 inch displays though.