Marketing Emails-How Kohls Is Abusing Their Mailing List

August 20, 2009

My wife recently signed up with the Kohls mailing list in an effort to secure the occasional coupon and special offer as we entered the back to school and consumer-spending-frenzied-fourth quarter. And because she’s been around me just long enough, she used our mutual Yahoo email address vs. her personal account. And in case anyone [...]

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Google Class Action Settlement: SPAM Or Conspiracy?

June 12, 2009

Whilst checking my email, I made a rare visit to the SPAM filter that’s doing a bang-up job and keeping my INBOX clear of mourning Nigerian’s and information about the “vacation cruise of a lifetime” It’s a rare occasion because I put a profound degree of trust in the Google/GMAIL system. And more recently, I [...]

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Simple Options That Improve YouTube Browsing

June 10, 2009

I’m a guy that spends a lot of time online. So with all that, one might logically assume that’s I’d be able to navigate the in’s and out’s of how things work and how to exploit the tools and features available in most of the more complex websites. Cue the expression, “…if it were a [...]

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When Databases Attack! Netflix Personalization Vs. Simple Common Sense

May 20, 2009

It’s clear that my NetFlix account is taking WAY too many liberties with what I see or don’t see featured under their “New Releases” heading. In other words, I’m missing new releases unless I take the time to seek them out. After a few visits that left me scratching my head about obvious omissions and [...]

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Javascript Disabled: Is That Really A Common Problem?

April 5, 2009

Creating websites that perform and present content correctly and uniformly across various browsers and operating systems is one the primary responsibilities of any self-respecting web designer. And to any web-dude or dudette that doesn’t make that end-game a primary focus of their process I say, shame on you. There, consider yourself rebuked. I can only [...]

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