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After they’ve seen Paree
Posted by gigantichound on 13 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Tech
One of the heaviest advertisers on Facebook – one of the only advertisers, as far as I can tell – is classmates.com, a site which Facebook seems to have made obsolete by replacing a pay service with a more or less equivalent free one.
Who are the Facebook customers which classmates.com thinks it will attract? I don’t get it at all.
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Just thought you would like to know…
Posted by Paul on 08 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Humour, Tech
Below is an actual excerpt from an actual email that I (and many, many others at my firm) got from our ”help” desk people recently. I *almost* feel sorry for them thinking of the scores of irate messages they must have received from partners with well-developed senses of entitlement…
It’s very hard to believe, but presumably the people who wrote this assumed the recipients would be gratified to be supplied with a couple of further datapoints, and were completely oblivious to the fact this would be read by human beings.
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BLACKBERRY UPGRADE ELIGIBILITY
If you are a direct recipient of this message, we have determined that, in accordance with the Firm’s 2-year policy on BlackBerry upgrades, you are not yet eligible to upgrade your BlackBerry device to a newer model.
We will inform you by email when you do become eligible. Also, while your actual eligibility date will eventually be accessible on the Movero website, you can check the date proactively at this time by clicking the following link and entering your five digit user number: Blackberry Upgrade Eligibility Date.
If you are unable to check your eligibility date for any reason, or if you perceive a problem with the date that is provided, please contact Movero and they will escalate the issue appropriately.
Please note that the range of new devices coming online is growing continuously, and that a future upgrade eligibility date may allow you to take advantage of even greater functionality.
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Well, this is neat –
Posted by gigantichound on 27 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Tech
Lines, map points, embedded images, shapes – it’s all there, and couldn’t be easier. Back in the day, a year and a half ago or so, you actually had to know a certain amount about Java to do this sort of thing, or at least be willing to go through a lot of trial and error copying other people’s code without really understanding it. (That would be me.)
Magnetic helmets!
Posted by MoreCoffeePlease on 24 May 2007 | Tagged as: Tech
Magnets may offer a way to boost mental performance, US research suggests.
No, they don’t fend off aliens and the CIA. Well, perhaps they do — who knows?
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Ew
Posted by MoreCoffeePlease on 17 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Humour, Tech, Toronto
So here’s a picture of a Rogers Video calling ad which is now in the subway. There’s a picture of a smiling girl on the phone, which is being held in a man’s left hand; in the background is a slightly rumpled bed with nighttime lighting.
First there was cellphone porn, now subway-ad promotion of videophone sex? We all know that all technological advances are driven by sex, but must it be quite this overt?
Firefox
Posted by lawgeek on 30 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Tech
…is crashing on me roughly every other day.
Is this consistent with others’ experience, or am I just a bad Mozilla owner? (I don’t think I’m trying to do anything especially crash-inducing)
Mild weirdness
Posted by lawgeek on 27 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Tech
Does anyone know what the source of the first comment on the Via Oliveto thread is?
Ouch
Posted by lawgeek on 02 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Tech
WordPress hacked. I don’t know what version we’re running, but judging from the dates, it probably doesn’t affect us.
Thoughts on site design?
Posted by MoreCoffeePlease on 23 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Tech
So now that everyone’s used to this site, we should think about design. I kind of randomly chose this theme (design) because hey, it was green and more-or-less friendly in IE. There are hundreds more out there, though. What do you like/dislike/want to see/etc.?
Wanted: good photo-management web site software
Posted by Techboy on 05 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Tech
Having returned from vacation with a ginormous collection of beautiful photographs, I’m once again confronted by the out-of-date complex nonsense that is the photo album software on my web site, “powered by Slooze”. (The name kinda says it all.) The effort required to tag and resize my images, upload them to the site, and load them into the Slooze database makes me feel tired just thinking about it. What I need is a nice free drag & drop package, that can handle such things as generation of thumbnails, uploading of images and/or directories from my brower, and (preferably) a nice front end for my visitors. Any suggestions?