What Not

Google’d

I was beside myself this evening when I discovered these! Notice how they’ve taken the courtesy to blur my face.

Business-speak out of control

Part 1
A friend passed along this great tool for generating absurd business-speak phrases. We’ve all seen these types of tools before, but they continue to be a source for a good laugh. After all, nobody actually speaks this way, right?
Part 2
Apparently they do. I received the following email earlier this week. It was titled “Approach [...]

Going the other way

I generally find it encouraging to be headed in the opposite direction as everybody else.

Free credit report from Equifax

In my quest to become a zero-junk mail household—and with the help of ProQuo and Catalog Choice—I tripped upon a way to get a free credit report from Equifax.
It’s simple! Just print out and send this form to Equifax and you’ll get a free copy of your credit report by mail about 2 weeks later. [...]

She’s in Dallas!

A little background: Earlier this year I kept coming across a particular photo in tech-related marketing materials online and in print. At first, I thought the photo was just generic enough to seem familiar. But through an image search I quickly confirmed this wasn’t the case.
It turns out the photo, featuring a woman in a [...]

There IS gold at the end of the rainbow

A friend turned me on to Washington State’s Unclaimed Property website. I did a quick search and learned that I had about $200 waiting for me. One was an overpayment on my Seattle City Light bill from my last apartment and the other two were related to class action law-suits against Dell.
After a quick submission [...]

Wi-Fi as Free as Beer

Get your plastic cups, kids, because there is free Wi-Fi all over the place and we now have a map to the party. Thanks to our beloved Lifehacker not only is the truth out there, it is closer than it appears.
For the whole skinny check out this and bask in the radiant glow of our [...]

Where’s Waldo’s sister?

Here she is:

http://yournetplus.com/
http://www.gatewaycomms.com/php/home/bus_services.htm
http://omnimeta.com/careers.php
http://www.deycom.com/page.asp?cid=269
http://www.allencorp.com/professional_services.asp
http://www.pathwaynet.com/services/webhosting/
http://www.allmediainc.com/opt-in-email-list.html
http://www.mommymentors.com/mom_guide_to_choosing_a_web_host.php
http://www.hosting.gb.net/

And also here:

http://deutschland.dasvonmorgen.de/en/532.php
http://www.i9biz.com/common/contact.asp
http://www.networkengines.com/eb/rs/munich/munich-landingpage.htm
http://www.grupogalileo.com/planes.php
http://www.prosys.ro/servere.php

A Prius – AT&T conspiracy?

Defeating junk mail

I came home last night and decided that I could no longer ignore the giant stack of junk mail that accumulated while I was in Eastern Europe this month. Not only does getting rid of all of this entail dutifully removing my personally identifiable information (a lesson learned from a stolen identity 6 years ago), [...]