Wired News Confirms Affiliate Sketchiness
/Does this Wired News story look like anything I might have written a couple months back? Seems the mainstream press is starting to catch on to the potential for abuse in online affiliate marketing programs, particularly when affiliates have license to drive sales and leads with whatever means they have available to them. Spyware, spam, etc. - A lot of it is coming from rogue affiliates. One thing the Wired News story didn't mention is how some affiliate marketers let their affiliates run rampant and then feign ignorance when affiliates get called on the carpet. While CAN-SPAM does address some of that, I'm skeptical that it will be effective at controlling this "plausible deniability" scenario.
Sick Again
/Spent all of today in my PJs, trying to get rest but inevitably failing to keep away from my computer. I'm never going to shake this cold. My day looked like this: * Rest * Check e-mail. Delete porn/gambling/boner pill spam. Decide to de-spam blog. Delete same from blog comments/trackbacks. * Nap. Wake myself up with massive coughing fit. * Return messages on office voice mail. Wonder how 12 messages can accumulate in 2 hours. * Send sis to store for cold medicine and cough drops. * Rest. Fall asleep reading lame Dean Koontz book because it's the only thing even remotely interesting to read in the house. * Deal with weird-ass adserving glitch. * Make frozen chicken patties on the George Foreman Grill. Consume massive quantities of water to try to flush nasty bug from system. Eat a Clementine for the Vitamin C. * Craft new business proposal. * Play Counter Strike: Source for an hour because I can't sleep but I don't want to work anymore. * De-spam blog again. * Take massive overdose of NyQuil. Go to bed.
Going to try to make it to the office tomorrow.
Office View
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Here's the Empire State Building from our office window. Nice view here. Took this with the new camera, which I love more and more every time I use it.
Of course, I wasn't able to get professional quality. But then again, I'm not a pro photographer.
This little Sony T1 is perfect for me. It's quick on the draw, takes great images and has a wide range of features. Can't wait to take it up to Maine or down to Florida on vacation, not to mention out on the trails.
Anyone else out there have this camera? What accessories have you bought? Seems to me like it could use a nice case. Also, if anyone else out there has a camera that uses the old Memory Sticks or InfoLithium batteries, I have that stuff in my old camera bag for ya.
