Midspot

This was too good not to pass on:

26. Say in perfect English, “I don’t speak English, sorry”

27. Say “Want to hear a cool noise?” … then hang up.

28. Tell them to please hold while you do your buisness. Then making farting sounds in the phone and after 30sec come back breathing hard.

29. When they start talking, begin to listen. Then, in the middle of their speech, moan and say “(name of same gender), Stop it! I’m on the phone!” Apologize to the telemarketer and let them continue to talk. Moan sensually again, and say any of the fun phrases you can think of. Example: “Oh honey don’t stop it feels so GOOD!”

30. When the telemarketer calls, act very interested. Say you’ll order the product, and then when they ask for your address say “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC”

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Technorati Tags: funny, humor, telemarketers, phone, sales, list, lists

Here’s the short of it: He wants to raise 2.5 million dollars to secure a superbowl commercial (or now convince someone to give up their spot as they are all sold out for 2007).

I think it’s a scam or the guy is an idiot. Why not purchase a local ad for a fraction of the cost. Yes they do exist, the local channel the game is being broadcast on gets 1-2 local ads which usually run around $500-1,000.

Anyway here is an excerpt and the link:

It was just an idea, and a bit of a crazy one at that. I’ve been wanting to propose to my girlfriend for a while now – we’ve been dating for longer than the average courtship by a good shot, and I’d finally made up my mind – this was the girl for me for now and forever. The question was – how to do it? How could I do something truly unique, spectacular and worthy of the way I feel about her? Being a huge NFL fan, and having a girlfriend who actually gets excited about the Superbowl, I figured the best thing I could do would be to propose to her on the big game – in front of the largest audience of witnesses to an engagement in history. I know… It seems a bit far-fetched. But with the help of the web, anything is possible, right? So my geekery took me straight to the site, where, amazingly, the buzz began to grow. We raised over $75,000, got mentioned in several press articles and it looked like things were taking off – until…

Technorati Tags: proposal, stupid, superbowl, story, scam, commercial, marketing

From: <moynaShaunaKendallwiva@ozypgyziaifefsa.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:46:58
To:”AntoinettecalBelladonna” <?????@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE:midspot:kayley

Another misconception yis that i am not fun . Wrong, I don’t know where you got that idea from i love having fun , with hot guys like you

I wish I had time today to mess with this spammer…

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These are not from my mother, but they do seem a little dated for recent times. Take item 5 for example:

5. A rolling stone gathers no moss: This one’s for those of you who are bitten by the wanderlust bug. Changing jobs too often? Can’t seem to find that perfect home? Not decided where to plant roots and settle down? If so, mom would tell you that you need to get your act together and set up home somewhere permanent. Too many changes in lifestyle add to the dollars spent unnecessarily.

In today’s job market it is wise to move around every few years to give yourself a jump up in salary and position. I know I have benefited from this on every job move, getting ahead more in a few months than in the previous few years…

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Technorati Tags: cost, savings, cheap, tips, mom, mother, advice, savings

Ever wanted to automate tasks on your computer? I know I am always looking for a way to automate repetitive tasks such as backup and file move/copy/delete, etc.

Automise does it for you. I downloaded the trial last night and it is pretty slick and powerful. Try it for free, and today only you can get a huge discount on the product. Here is their own words:

Automise is a powerful general purpose automation tool that allows anyone to automate just about anything! Create an Automise project using the fantastic GUI, and then it’s easy for anyone to run the project with single click or single keystroke or it can be scheduled to run automatically. Automise saves time, often running tasks in seconds that would take minutes or hours if done manually.

Automise makes complex automation tasks easy as it uses a powerful graphical user interface and includes built in support for many different applications.  Automise includes powerful flow control actions which allow the project to decide which actions to run depending on certain conditions, as well as error handling so that your project can clean up and handle errors properly.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Automise in any way and do not benefit from your purchase. I just thought the product was cool and plan on purchasing for myself.

Technorati Tags: Automise, automation, software, Windows, Microsoft, tool, utility, bargain, deal

Last night I received a call from “Steve” at GoDaddy. This is where I purchase a bulk of my website domains from and have been content with their service in the past.

To be fair, I have never had any issues with them and have never used their support.

I figured “Steve” was going to try to up-sell me some type of service or another.

Turns out I was dead wrong. Here is the gist of our conversation:

Steve: Hi Jonathan, this is Steve from GoDaddy.
Me: Hi Steve. (not really wanting to be bothered at 6:30 at night with a sales call)
Steve: We were just looking over your account…
Me: Oh boy here it comes…
Steve: and we noticed that you were not taking advantage of our bulk renewal offer.
Me: I guess I thought I needed like 500 domains with you to do so.
Steve: Oh no! You can start saving with as little as 6 domains!
Me: OK, so how do I participate?
Steve: I can either do it for you on the phone or you can just adjust the expire dates to be the same and it will happen automatically. Either way you will save around $130-150 per year!
Me: Wow! No catches? No Gimmicks?
Steve: Nope, just our way of saying thanks for the business.
Me: Well thanks Steve
Steve: no problem.

Well there you have it. Customer service does live on. Who really takes the time to call their customers to help them save money on your service?

GoDaddy does!

Technorati Tags: business, customer, service, godaddy, customer service, experience, marketing, money, save, discount, bulk renewal, domains, web, website

Have you got an OS X machine that refuses to print from any application without a detailed error message?

Try this article to fix

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Today I forget a password I had set on a website in the past and I could no longer log in to my DNN version 3 website as host anymore. Since passwords are not stored in clear text and there is not a way to reset the host password in DNN 3, I had to come up with my own method to reset the password. Here is how to do it:

Things that this method depends on:

• this depends on having the site enabled to allow user registrations
• also requires you to have dbo access to the database where DNN is installed to

1. First register as a new user.
2. Then look in the database in the aspnet_users table in the DNN database.
3. Find the user you just created and note the UserID field which is a string of numbers and letters.
4. Also find this same string for the host account.
5. Then in the aspnet_Membership table copy the Password and PasswordSalt fields from the new user you created over the existing hash values for the host account.
6. Now you can log in as host using the password created in your new user account we created in step one.

Technorati Tags: DNN3, DNN, Microsoft, membership, provider, membership provider, access, log, locked, host, account, DotNetNuke

I have been using Drupal for a couple of sites in the last few months and have found it to be quite promising.

Version 5 looks like it is nearing release as it has entered Beta 2 as of today…

Technorati Tags: Drupal, cms, content, management, web, website, beta, software, php, linux

Looks like Microsoft is not the only one ridden with malware anymore. Apple has joined the club in recent days with spyware of its own. The one alarming thing is that it does not require admin priveledges to infect the host Mac computer. I hope this does not spread to the Windows world as the number one defense against malware is running with non-admin rights…

The program, dubbed iAdware by the Finnish security company, is possibly the first example of adware for Macs. It is especially interesting since it doesn’t require administrative privileges to nestle itself on the computers, according to F-Secure

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