CNET Radio (910 AM KNEW) went off the airwaves today. I only started listening to it back in November when I began carpooling with my brother-in-law Ron. The station, with its high-tech news and talk format, was a welcome addition to my radio dial repertoire. CNET Radio, I hardly knew you.
I’m not the only one who confuses one for the other. This guy tries to prove Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton are one and the same person.
Delving deeper into Generation Y territory, doesn’t Avril Lavigne look like a younger, shorter (she’s 5′1″) Nicole Kidman?
Why do we say “I received several e-mails today?” We don’t say “I received several mails today,” we say “I received several pieces of mail today.” Personally I prefer “e-mail messages” over “e-mails.” Where is a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style when you need one?
Update: Oh never mind, I found the proper usage over here (do a search on e-mail).
I hardly use my Yahoo! e-mail account. It’s really only there to be used as a legit addy to give away when having to register something at any given website.
Lately, the only reason I find myself visiting my Yahoo! web mail account is having to do the arduous task of weeding out spam from my inbox. Yes, I have SpamGuard on but it doesn’t work too well. One thing I’ve noticed about some of the unwanted e-mail that manage to slip through are the senders’ names, e.g.:
Stachurski Saltz
Purkett Challa
Smack Crognale
Now I doubt these are real people’s names. There’s something vaguely ethnic about them. Are spammers now embracing multiculturalism as part of their aggressive marketing campaigns? Nah. No clever script can put together wonderfully perverted names such as these. I’d rather think that these are conjured up in some rogue marketer’s seedy home office somewhere out there. What else would he do all day?
A post over at brownpau reminded me of an article I read a couple of weeks ago on Philippine software piracy. Now if the bomb incident coincided with the U.S. trade official’s visit to Virra Mall, we would have had an international incident in our hands.
An attempt to defuse a bomb in another part of the Philippines went awry.