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4 February 2010 2 Comments

Be My Foursquare Friend

I’ve been playing around with Foursquare for a bit now, and though I am not totally hooked-crazy-go-nuts for it, I do like it. It’s totally nerdy I know, but so was Facebook once upon a time. And so was the Internet, so whatever.

One thing I do know though, is that the enjoyment you are likely [...]

22 January 2010 0 Comments

Netflix Feature Idea

Julie and I have been ripping through the Mad Men series on blu-ray via Netflix lately. We just finished season 1, and were all revved up to start season 2. So on Tuesday night, when we popped in what we thought was the first disc for season 2, only to realize it was the SECOND [...]

6 January 2010 0 Comments

Bad Transcriptions

I know I will regret this, but I think I need to start a blog that just has transcripts from speech-to-text services like Google Voice. Here is one I got today.
Let’s see, and it was sent to the her office building is [...]

10 December 2009 2 Comments

Sneaky Unsubscribe Page

Somehow, somewhere, I got on the email list for US News and World Report. When I finally unsubscribed today, I thought their opt-out page was pretty sneaky.

I have always hated the “opt-out confirm” step, and think that unsubscribe links in emails should be a single click unsub. This one though used some subtle placement and [...]