Month: August 2005
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Careful What You Say To A Spammer
Or perhaps more importantly, watch how you say something to spammers. Once upon a time, I used to reply to spammers every so often. I would send them a piece of spam for one of my services and ask them how they liked being spammed in return. Naturally, since the vast majority of spam is…
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Work At Home? Yeah, Right!
They’re everywhere. If you spend time surfing around the Internet to visit various web sites, chances are good that you have seen the work-at-home ads. Maybe it is just the sites I tend to visit, but I see them all the time. Now who doesn’t want to work at home? Granted, there are some people…
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Thank You Nokia
It’s so refreshing to see a manufacturer do something sensible for a change. In this case I am talking about Nokia, a manufacturer of cell phones and probably other things I am not aware of. We recently decided to get my son a cell phone for his birthday. He’s 16 now, has a job, and…
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One Way Spammers Ruin Things For Everyone
I have to admit that is difficult for me to come up with a sufficient number of nasty things to say about spammers. They are very near the bottom of the heap of those that lurk on the Internet in my opinion. It’s bad enough that these low-life clog up millions of in-boxes with useless…
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How Not To Run A Business
If you have read my entry here from August 10 about the vitamin company that I will no longer be doing business with, you might find this update interesting. You may recall that I sent them an e-mail message informing that I will no longer be doing business with them and why. Up until today…
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Worrying About A Leaky Roof As A Tsunami Approaches
Living in New Hampshire, all the recent hubbub about small town police chiefs arresting illegal immigrants on charges of trespassing has me pondering the situation. If you are not sure what I am talking about, do a Google search and include the words: New Ipswich, Hudson and illegal and you’ll find all you ever wanted…
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SPAM: Can It Be Stopped?
SPAM: The word makes me cringe each time I hear it. No, it’s not because I dislike canned meat products. It’s because I hate unwanted, uninvited crap invading my e-mail inbox. I don’t know if it is just me, but it seems that SPAM is on the increase lately and it is more annoying than…
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Slow Down And Read The Fine Print! Always!
A lot of people seem as though they have just entered some kind of race as they sit down in front of their computer and begin to browse around the web. Maybe it is just the immediate nature of the medium that makes people keep the virtual pedal to the metal as they speed from…