Fri, Apr 30 2004

Spam In Your Face (And In The Way Of Their Own Content)

Screen Spam is bad enough as a concept. What really makes it annoying is that the spam often covers other vital information on a site and prevents me from finding out about the company's products. What good is such advertising if it blocks me from seeing what the original site was intended to present? I've also had these little beasties play havoc with a browser's ability to render the browser window properly. Sometimes the whole thing just freezes. I usually just give up and close that particular browser window altogether. I suppose the advertisers--and the original site owners and designers--think they've gotten one more successful view, but all they've really succeeding in doing is to send me packing without seeing either their own company's goodies or those of the advertising third party. I'm annoyed and resentful. Is that what they wanted? If so, they've done a great job.

I won't buy anything presented to me in this manner, and I'll jot down the brand names and let the companies know it. If the rest of you don't buy either, they may eventually get the message.

posted at: 11:58 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry

Younger Than Jesse Ventura--Older Than Bill Gates

If you go here and put your birthdate into the prompt box, you'll get back an interesting set of statistics. I was born somewhere between Jesse Ventura and Bill Gates, which could just explain a lot of my quirks and interests in life, if I chose to see it that way. For the writers out there, this has great story potential. Put yourself into an alternate universe.

posted at: 10:01 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry