Imaginary is sending out a large marketing mailing. We have hundreds of small boxes being sent first class mail. Since we do not have a postage machine and I did not want to affix 4 separate postage stamps to each box, I signed up with Stamps.com.
The account requires a credit card in order to pre-purchase postage, so I put down an American Express and proceeded to purchase about $900 in postage.
Stamps.com only allows accounts to hold $250 in total postage, so it required several purchase-print-purchase-print cycles to get all the postage I needed. I started with ...
Read More
Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:37AM CDT by brian
Categories:
Rants User Interface
0 Comments
In an article from CNet News last week, it seems like someone at Apple called Microsoft COO Kevin Turner and asked him to stop running those nasty "Laptop Hunter" ads. You know, the ones where they give someone $1,000 and ask them to go into a Microsoft store to see what they can buy? This was a highlight of his keynote speech at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
Anyhow, apparently someone from Apple's legal department called and told Mr. Turner to stop running the ads. "This is a true story," affirms Mr. Turner. I wonder if they also ...
Read More
Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:47AM CDT by brian
Categories:
Rants Technology
Everywhere I turn, I see the title Evangelist related to technology jobs. Am I the only one that thinks this is silly?
Webster's New World Collegiate Dictionary (Fourth Edition) defines evangelist as follows:
- Any of the four writers of the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.
- A revivalist or preacher who holds large public services in various cities, now often televised.
Come on, people. Is it just me who snickers every time I hear the word Evangelist stapled onto some equally pompous title? Is it just me whose head fills with head-slap healing, Kool-Ade drinking, Tammy Faye marrying ...
Read More
Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:02AM CDT by brian
Categories:
Business Rants Technology
Managing domain name registrations is part of a Web developers job. However, it can be a pain in the butt and, as one developer found out, expensive if you mess up.
The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Yuma Solutions, the Web developer for the George Bush presidential library, accidentally let its domain name expire. Another firm snatched it up for $10 and charged Yuma $35,000 to get it back. This is a follow up to a Dallas Morning News story from April.
I have mixed emotions about this. It was another Web developer - Raleigh, NC-based Illuminati Karate - that ...
Read More
Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:06AM CDT by brian
Categories:
Business Rants Web News
Imaginary Landscape
RSS Feed
