Wow, what a stormy issue this has become! The following was going to be a follow-up comment over on Andy Beard's blog, but it got a little too long. Here's my take on the issue: I guess I see it a little differently. Let me see if I can explain in a way that at...
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If this list were worthy to be on itself, it'd just a be a list. But it takes laziness to be that bad, and I'm just not that lazy. Let me explain. You've seen 'em: "54 great call to action buttons", "32 cool jQuery accordion menu scripts", "79 great header graphics for inspirtion", "15,327 free...
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I just posted a comment on Rich Schefren's blog. That triggered an automated email thanking me for the comment and linking to a few useful resources. The email had backslashes before all the quote marks and apostophes. I sent an email in response pointing out the problem and briefly suggesting possible causes. I got an...
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The long awaited night has come. My daughter is watching the new Dora the Explorer movie, "Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom". Here's my outline for a better Dora movie. Dora and Boots go to withdraw money from the ATM, only to find that their bank has failed. During the transition to FDIC control, the ATM...
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For the most part, I love AWeber. But as I wrote last year, they've got a few really irritating problems. Here's my latest gripe. About a month ago, I deleted 11 follow-up messages from one of my autoresponder sequences -- they weren't converting, so I axed 'em. AWeber keeps track of the last follow-up message...
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Back in March, the Washington Post referred to Rush Limbaugh as the new Minority Leader. After Limbaugh repeatedly expressed the hope that Obama would fail and Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele criticized him for it, Steele had to apologize to Limbaugh. Are you kidding me? Let me see if I've got this right. We're supposed...
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Last month, I called Kodak out for trying to grab the moral high ground in printer ink pricing. An HP employee helped sink the dagger deeper by commenting on that post. Well, now it's HP's turn to get called out. HP's ad shows 2 peacock's -- the "cheap replacement ink" peacock with a small tail,...
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I've got two issues with Kodak's new "most expensive liquid ads (ads for their printers that use less expensive ink). The first is factual: the worlds most expensive liquid is NOT printer ink. I'd guess it's either medicine or (most likely) perfume. The second is how they're portraying themselves as the heroes, the advocates of...
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The Conestoga Mall here in Grand Island, Nebraska lost $60 (more actually) of sales for their retailers today. I went in to get Christmas gift cards, only to discover that they charge $2 per card over and above the value of the card. For a $10 card (we were going to buy them for 6...
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Yesterday, I suggested we organize a Day Without Email where we'd all shut off our SMTP servers for a day. We wouldn't send any email out, and no email would come in. (But messages to us wouldn't get lost because the senders' servers would keep retrying till we turned our SMTP servers back on tomorrow)....
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