Yesterday I received several e-mail comments about my columns for the MikroPC magazine. One of these e-mails was a typical emotional response when confronted with an idea which threatens the reader's worldview. This e-mail contained also a lot of spelling mistakes to confirm the "hasty emotional reponse" interpretation.

I had written (in Finnish) about mobile phones with a camera. Perhaps this is a topic where Finns have a lot of emotions involved, thanks to Nokia.

One of the other e-mails congratulated about the same column. This reader had generated some novel ideas of his own based on the column.

There was also a comment about an earlier column. This reader had not realized that the column was satirical, and revolted against the idea of the text. Perhaps this was a typical "a moment too soon" e-mail and the reader realized the meaning of the text a moment after pressing "Send".

In any case I'm satisfied of having generated some activity in the reader's brains.