Month: January 2010
Random Images
Here is the latest batch of random images. I have a bad habit of just grabbing images without writing down who did it, or where I got it from. If anyone recognizes their work please send me an email so I can give credit where credit is due and link …
Customer Service FAIL
I am unhappy with the customer service from the BMO investor line. It took 10 days to respond to one of my email questions and 5 business days to process a simple purchase of a mutual fund. Cause the transaction took so long I thought it had failed and processed …
Simple and funny
Garfield minus Garfield is a simple idea of removing the main character and focus of Jim Davis’ comic strips to create new deeper meaning illustrations. Some profound, some funny and some more than a little schizophrenic.
Fizzbuzz
Jeff Atwood, who writes the blog Coding Horror tweeted about issues in interviewing programmers who cannot program. Which he had posted about a couple of years ago. (I guess he was tweeting because the issue has not been resolved). Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. …
More thinking of email
Here is what I would like to see with email marketing. This is an example of the way a system would work based on a few purchases. I am not sure how hard it would be to set up, but I think it would be really cool and effective.
Limited social networking
What would happen if you created a social networking site, but limited people to 5 friends? The problem with Facebook, anyone can tell you, is people from your past contacting you (and you wished they wouldn’t) or people who are really only acquaintances friending you and blasting you with inane …
Thoughts on email marketing
Every so often I feel stabby… okay fairly often. But one of the things that makes me most stabby is bad junk email. Advertisers seem to think they still live in the age of television. That they must pump a message out to as many people as possible and that …