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We’re great at this data stuff, us

Posted in internet, marketing on Oct 15th, 2010

Aren’t companies great? Every now and then, when shopping online, no matter how fastidiously you tell them you don’t want to hear from them, they decide that you do. I love getting these emails. They almost invariably contain a codicil explaining that you’re receiving the email because you signed up to receive it. Almost invariably [...]

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666 – the number of the unread mails

Posted in digression on Mar 3rd, 2010

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If your email’s down you’re not coming in

Posted in online journalism on Apr 4th, 2008

OK, let’s see if you can spot the flaw in this particular child-protection idea simply by reading the following standfirst: Sex offenders’ e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children. Any inkling why that might not work? Frankly, I find it astounding that anyone [...]

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Things I wouldn’t spot if I didn’t write for a technology magazine #348

Posted in journalism on Nov 27th, 2007

Wikipedia entries are case-sensitive. Witness MIME, a discussion of all-round email encoding cleverness, versus mime… …well, the picture says it all.

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