WebProNews, iEntry, spammers

April 4, 2007

This post was written in April 2007; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

WebProNews (no link, you’ll see why…) quite often turn up articles that look like they might be interesting. That must have been why I signed up for their email list (which I did, I admit), is administered by iEntry Inc. (again, no link). Just recently, though, the mail has got more frequent and less relevent, so I unsubscribed via the link in the mail. And unsubscribed the next day. And the next. Then I mailed iEntry direct. Then I mailed the whois contacts on both domains. I’m still getting mail.

So firstly, don’t sign up for any mail from these spammers. And secondly, given that I’m in France and they’re in the US (I assume) and that having my lawyer write to them isn’t an option, what do I have to do to get off their lists?

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Genuine fakes

January 28, 2007

This post was written in January 2007; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

Seth Godin tells a superb story about Picasso verifying the authenticity of his own work:

“Fake!” he bellowed.

After the dealer left, I couldn’t help myself. “Picasso, why did you say that painting was a fake? I was here, in this studio, last year when I saw you paint it.”

Picasso didn’t hesitate. He turned to me and said, “I often paint fakes.”

Art NYC has some interesting thoughts on this story. I’m just relieved that Picasso never had a job working for VeRO…

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Your very good elf

December 10, 2006

This post was written in December 2006; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

So it’s Sunday, it’s wet and cold out, the kids are climbing the walls, you already put your Christmas decorations up - what’s next? How about a little Christmas dressing up?

Here’s one we made earlier, featuring Jess, head of customer services for Mountcomp.

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