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December 19, 2006

The Madness of 12 Days


How does anyone attempting a serious rendition of that 12 days song ever manage to do so without going batty?

Even Worse Than A Mission Statement


There are a bunch of bogus awards floating about, the most notorious perhaps being the J.D. Powers Awards, where you (a company, entity, etc) basically pay for an award and pay again for the right to use the name and logo of said award. I just recently found out about the Stevies, supposedly "...the Oscars of business...", given in four categories - American Business, International Business, Women in Business, and Selling Power Sales Excellence. You pay a fee to be considered in any of 300 sub-categories and the awards are based on unverified applications filled out by the entrants themselves i.e.: there is no real judging.
As a result you get gems of gibberish in the applications, like this one from PostcardMania, which won for Best Writing (!):
"The objective was ... imparting to all our visitors that they can be causative over their income and expansion by understanding marketing and implementing the basics we hope to teach with our articles."

December 15, 2006

Next Previous Newer Older Oh My

Wouldn't it be nice if blogs, tech journals, et al could standardize on exactly which direction navigational links like those in the title go?

December 13, 2006

Another xmas Song I Can Never Listen to Again


This is so shockingly bad I'm speechless:
O Holy Crap
As the poster says: "...just when you think it couldn't possibly get any worse, it does. By a lot. And it does this more than once,..."