Now that even hotmail is letting you choose to not display images in email is the banner ad in email a lost cause? And if so, will services like Yahoo! Groups, which inserts a banner in all the list emails sent throught their lists, have to start charging or switch to text ads only?
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Got a surprise break away from the world of computers this evening. Some very dear friends of ours decided to have a surprise dinner a couple of days early for my birthday. Thank you, Mary and Howard, for a wonderful treat, and thank you, Angela for helping to arrange it. They have just returned from…
I’ve been busy, as you can probably tell from my not posting at all yesterday, but something that I’ve been thinking a lot about is the “mystery” of technology work. I’m reminded of something my driver’s education instructor told me many, many years ago. He said the goal of good driving was never to make…
Had another meetup with a fellow blogger this evening. This time Angela and I ventured out to Easton for dinner, good conversation and a few laughs with Andy and his wife, Kristen. Angela has pictures!. (Pity the poor woman at the next table who wound up in the background of our pics and who’s likeness…
Over at Christine’s I saw the term bloggerbated for the first time. “No honey I was up all nite bloggerbating, what did you think I said?” *L* I will have to bloggerbate by myself for a few days as Angela’s hosting provider, (aka her brother) is moving and will have the server down for a…
Remember when I was telling you about Jevon running his blog with Nucleus? It got me thinking, the one reason I’ve stayed with Blogger as opposed to Movable Type was that I didn’t want to have to go deal with my hosting company to get the proper Perl setup. (It’s a hassle I don’t have…
Thanks to a link on SimpleGeek, I saw this article by Michael Hyatt called “How to Sell Your Boss”. While not as specific to IT as some of the stuff I’ve been talking about, some of the general ideas are similar, and well, let’s face it, it’s written more elegantly than anything I blog. 🙂…