Dear Apple,

When you create your annoying marketing emails, please remember to edit them after copying the great American deals and converting them to less-great NZ deals.

This one came today. In my inbox it says June 15. After loading images, Sept 7:

This...

...Became this

That wasn't too bad -- after all, who cares if Apple don't know when Fathers Day is? (Apart from fathers who want gifts :)

But this one from a few months ago was more annoying:

This...

...Became this

Now that's a bit more annoying. When I viewed the email in my inbox (with images turned off), I thought I was being offered a special deal of $49. But no, switching on images showed that actually it wasn't such a special deal at $75.

So, dear Apple. When you copy and paste the excellent US deals into an email, don't forget to change the ALT text of the images after you replace them -- it gets shown in peoples email clients if they have images turned off, or they hover over the image with their mouse.

Kirk

Trade Me making value judgements, or just representing the facts? :)

One persons vision of the Google OS:

http://goosh.org/

Coming from a unix background, there's just something so natural about a shell that has commands directly hooked to google :)

Here's an idea that would work well in Courtenay Place:
http://stevewellsphoto.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/cruising/

A sign on the side of the road that says:

No Cruising Zone
Motorists passing the traffic control point 2 or more times in 4 hours are subject to citation

That'd teach those kids a lesson!

The photo is taken by photographer extraordinaire Steve Wells. Formerly of Wellington, now in Paris, and has a great new photo every day on his blog.

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