It’s my wife’s birthday today. She got a call from the mortgage company we went through to buy our house. We haven’t heard from them since a month after we signed the papers and they sold our note. So the call really came as quite a surprise to my wife. It went something like this:
Axiom: “This is Axiom financial. We are just calling to wish you a happy birthday.”
Wife: “Uh, OK.”
A: “So how is your family?”
W: “Goooood.”
(More awkward attempts at conversation)
A: “So, do you need any money?”
W: “Excuse me?”
A: “Well, we do second mortgages…”
Can you believe this marketing technique?! Happy birthday, want to get in debt? Lown down, dirty, rotten…
Technorati Tags: Axiom, motgage, debt, marketing, telemarketers
This is interesting. I keep getting emails from a group of people that have mistakenly entered my email address in their CC field. When I look at it though, it is not my address, it is missing the period in between my first and last name. When I was looking at this, I saw a link that said, oddly enough, “Yes, this is you.” Upon clicking the “Learn More” link I found this information:
Am I receiving someone else’s email?
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots (.) as characters within a username. This way, you can add and remove dots to your username for desired address variations. messages sent to your.username@gmail.com and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are delivered to the same inbox, since the characters in the username are the same.
Keep in mind that hyphens (-) and underscores (_) can’t be used in a Gmail address. Also, usernames are case insensitive, so it doesn’t matter if you enter upper case or lower case letters.
If you created your account with a dot in your username and you wish you hadn’t, you can change your ‘Reply-to address.’ To change your reply-to address:
1. Click ‘Settings’ at the top of any Gmail page.
2. Enter your username@gmail.com without a dot in the ‘Reply-to address’ field.
3. Click ‘Save Changes.’
When you log in to Gmail, you need to enter any dots that were originally defined as part of your username.
For some reason I thought that when I initially signed up for gmail that dustindavis was taken so I selected dustin.davis. I guess dustin.davis just looked better to me.
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So I tried this face recognition tool at My Heritage. The tool is cool. Yes it has some confusing results, but more on that in a minute.
I entered a photo of me and my son. Turns out the number one result for me is Christopher Lambert and the number one result for my son is Tobey Maguire. Cound Spiderman be the son of an immortal? Wait, no, his father died… 
Anyone, beyond Tobey Maquire I think the system go really confused with my son’s 14 month old face! The following results included Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Estella Warren, Jet Li, Park Ji-Sung & Erykah Badu to name a few.
My other celeb matches are below:
Continue reading “Spiderman is the Offspring of Highlander”
I have only used it briefly so far, but I had to come rave about the new Google Groups Beta! I wont say much, but I will point you to their new beta version and their blog announcment.
Wow, I’m impressed. On the same day that I set up this site, Google came to pay a visit.
You can see from a screenshot of this whois record the date that I set up my nameservers. Speaking of which, DomainTools is pretty on the ball as well.
Looking at Google, it seemed that on the same day they index a few sites. Well, it’s a start!
I’m getting frustrated trying to claim my blog on Technorati. This blog used to be located at blog.davisvillage.com (it still is for archive purposes). I couldn’t ever claim that blog location on Technorati. Every time I try I kept getting this error:
There was a problem claiming your blog. Please try again in a few minutes. You can also go to Technorati Help >> for help claiming your blog.
I’ve tried everything in that help section, but nothing works. So I claimed this blog just as soon as I got it set up, then I moved my blog over completely. It still does some funky things on occasion though.
I’m now having the same problem with my LDS blog. I get the same error when I try to claim it. I’ve tried a few things:
- I deleted all my posts from the database, then tried to claim it. I wasn’t sure if there were some funny characters or something that the technorati bots were getting hung up on.
- I tried disabling ALL my plugins. That didn’t work.
- I tried changing my template to the default and the classic. Neither worked.
- I’ve searched the internet and have yet to find anything useful…
One think I tried did provide some interesting results. I deleted all the files and reinstalled a fresh copy of WordPress. Then I was able to claim my blog! After claiming it, I move my old files back over and reconnected to my original database. CRASH! I still have the claim to LatterdayBlog.com, but after another ping, it doesn’t seem to exist to Technorati.
When I look at the details for this blog on Technorati, all I see is:
Huh?
There are blogs, and then there’s whatever you just typed in. If it’s a blog, we don’t know about it. Maybe you made a typo. Or maybe it’s a blog that doesn’t exist. Maybe you don’t exist. (In which case, please ignore this.)
Anyone else experienced the same frustrations? Anyone found a solution to the problem?
Technorati Tags: Technorati, claim, claim your blog
As you may have noticed from past posts, I love VOIP!
Now, I’m not a big phone talker, but recently I’ve been trying out Skype, Gizmo, & VoipStunt. Each of them have their pros & cons. But I just love the fact that I can make calls from my computer. Sure I have a phone at my desk, but it is too far to reach and it doesn’t have a headset. I often like to use Gizmo to make calls to business. That way I can easily record my calls to these companies.
And the best part about VOIP. It’s cheap! I still use vonage at home, and at work, while using these three services, I haven’t paid a dime!
Technorati Tags: VOIP, Cisco, Skype, Gizmo, VoipStunt, Vonage
OK, this is the second time I’ve changed the name of my blog, but this time I think it will stick. Why? Because I’ve found a new home! Rather than keeping it on a sub-domain, I’ve got my own domain for my highly refreshed blog. I really never thought it would come to this.
Why Nerdy Dork? Because I am Tri-Lamb Material according to this Nerd, Geek, Dork test.
Now, we’ll see if anyone even reads this blog. I rarely get comments anymore anyway 
It’s funny, these Al Qaeda missionaries get the same response that I would often get as a Mormon missionary. Funny stuff. Hopefully the people there knew it was a joke. I would the the camerman following them around might have given it away 
(The embeded video can be seen at Google Video)
Technorati Tags: Al Qaeda, Humor, Missionaries, Mormons, LDS
