Digg ThisOK, OK… it was yesterday…
I received an interesting piece of email today. SPAM, actually. It read:
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(Company Removed)
Emerald Ave., Ortigas Center,
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I have not edited this in any way, save for outside references; straight from the horse’s mouth, as it were. Well, lemme see here… no opt-out… nice English… I work for Optiem, and we do SEO: what do these guys do that we don’t? I’m waiting for a good time to upgrade to WordPress 1.5, and I’ll add my SEO stuff then (for free — from memory and experience)… hmmm… should I take them up on their offer? Riiiight!
Family emails have been better: gas prices in Detroit and Phoenix (Pa-HO-nicks, hehe). Here’s Cleveland, guys; the lowness of the prices are strictly West Side, by the way. It’s $2.24/gal over on the East Side…
I’ll bet this one’s a fake…
Lots of placeholder text on the web lately, and I’m not the first to point this out of late, but in case you missed, here’s a few goodies:
This one just doesn’t compute.
Not enough room for this, I guess…
Power shortage?
Send it where?
I still have absolutely no idea what this company does…
Must’ve been stuck in traffic…
And that’s about all the news that isn’t.
