Valentines day. A day most women expect flowers from their husbands and boy friends. Some men procrastinate and wait until the last minute. Others like me don’t. I ordered flowers and candy from @1800flowers more than a week before Valentines day. I know that V-day is an extremely busy day for flower delivery. You would…
Category Archives: Nonsense
Shopping comparison sites (Nextag, Shopzilla, Pricegrabber, etc) holiday rate increase… do you think it’s justified?
If you advertise your products on shopping comparison sites like Nextag, PriceGrabber and Shopzilla, you know what time of year it is. Holiday rate increase time. By now you should have gotten the typical/yearly email such as these: From Nextag: The holiday season is around the corner and we would like to inform you that…
Public transportation and water conservation… two things Europe is good at
On my recent trip to the Czech Republic and Austria there are two things that were reinforced to me… Europe is good at public transportation and water conservation. I had previously experienced this when I traveled to Italy and Paris a few years back, but this recent vacation definitely reinforced it. Public transportation: The two…
China’s undervalued currency… it’s not the only problem
China’s undervalued currency… it’s a hot topic in the news. I read an article on CNN last night about the House passing a bill on China’s currency. Then this morning woke up to a new article, China: US bill on yuan would hurt both countries. China and American jobs. Both issues I care about, but…
Disappointed with UPS ~ UPS does not offer carbon neutral shipping to WorldShip users
Update: Thanks to Evan from UPS @EvanAtUPS along with Elizabeth from UPS who commented below, I’ve been informed that UPS does plan to add the carbon neutral shipping option in the next version of WorldShip in January. I suggest UPS tell their reps who answer email to give out information like this when asked. If…
The scrambled blog post… I don’t get it, what’s the purpose?
We’ve all seen the scrambled blog post. It’s a blog where the content is nothing but nonsense… scrambled words, sentences that mean nothing, kind of like someone randomly took sentences and words from five different articles on five different topics and then combined them all in one blog post. Then the blog itself has no…
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