Email at dinner

December 20, 2007 by Tom · 2 Comments
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Sean Fallon at Gizmodo asks an appropriate question about the inane habit that many of us have these days - checking our email at dinnertime. Head on over there and share your thoughts, but I’ve gotta say that I’m pretty notorious for doing this, although The Girlfriend and I have attempted to get ourselves to a point that if we’re out to dinner and trying to relax and chat, that once we’ve ordered, we don’t really go there. That works a lot at home, too, especially if you manage to turn off the blinky light on your BlackBerry so you’re not seeing it across the room.

What about you? Are you a dinnertime email checker?

One heck of a backorder

December 3, 2007 by Tom · Leave a Comment
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Okay, so I got this email this morning from Macy’s, a while after having ordered something for a friend’s wedding. As you can probably guess, I was a little thrown off by the date at which Macy’s was saying the product would finally ship.

macysbackorder

After calling customer service, I was informed that the “9999″ in the year field was just because the fine folks at Joyce Chen hadn’t given them a firm ship date for the products to get to Macy’s, so that’s the nomenclature that falls into the field. Now I know that this might be the case, and it only took one phone call to clear this up, but wouldn’t most people be dumbfounded by a date like that in place of something else, even a “TBD” or “within 90 days?”

Gmail IMAP is my friend

October 25, 2007 by Tom · 1 Comment
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Absolutely thrilled with how Gmail IMAP works on my iPhone.

Thanks, JRL!

Let’s Do the Cyborg Again

May 13, 2004 by Tom · Leave a Comment
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Check out the details in this post at jwz’s site. This person actually does the “Terminator” naked time travel pose every day in the shower.

Damn, I thought I was screwed up for checking my email on the way back to bed at 3:18am after going to the bathroom or getting a drink. To each his/her own, I suppose.

Will Email For Money

April 13, 2004 by Tom · Leave a Comment
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Anil Dash suggests creating an tagline at the bottom of your emails where you’ll offer to pay a certain amount via PayPal or some device to the recipient if they respond to you in a timely manner.

Talk about incentives! I’d answer email all day!

1 Gig - The New Standard In Webmail?

April 7, 2004 by Tom · Leave a Comment
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Probably not, but it looks like Google will have a competitor for eyeballs as Spymac introduces a mail service of their own. Spymac is stating that their services don’t have targeted advertising or keyword scanning, which is something Google stated up-front that they would have in their Gmail service.