Tretakoff Musings

I say it so often I don't notice it, but MSNBC has a linguistic perspective on Homer Simpson's "D'oh!" that is not be missed. Yeah, I just KNEW I was actually screaming my intelligence with this statement.

OK, ladies, listen up. The Sports Guy has written two columns that are just for you, from his female readers. If that's not enough to get you excited, what's it gonna take? By the way, ESPN now has given him his own site ; get your Sports Guy fix anytime! Bill, I'm here to help with that eBay auction; no commission! J

I'm also blogging for the new company . Check out my views on loyalty, retention marketing, and what we can do on our website. Now, maybe you can figure out what it is I do!

Man, I'm working too hard. Well, the business stuff is going well! New clients, lots of prospects, and we just hired what I hope to be the best Sales VP ever. She's great: she should teach lessons on how to sell. Now, let's see her handle the onslaught that is Elvis.:-) A my's back to work! She decided to do retail, and had A nn Taylor and Victoria 's Secret in a bidding war for her services! A nn Taylor won, and her store is HUGE! Great feeling for her! Weekends? West Palm Beach , FL , for Len's wedding. Fun, but FLORID A IN JULY?!?!!? A GH!!!! Hell on earth! Went swimming in the ocean, though; never did that in the US before where it wasn't bone numbingly cold. We also spent a weekend in Sacramento , while A my trained for the new gig. I like that town, damn it. A nd the food is trying to get better. I took the train to and fro: 4 forms of transport in one day (boat, train, bus, and car). Coming up: Denver this week, with a vi...

I've been using SpamNet for some time, back when it was a beta service. It's professioanl, paid version is simple the best ever. Rather than some complicated formula that spammers can figure out how to reverse engineer, it relies on half a million people with the software: if a representative sample thisnk it's spam, you get spared. Basically, it uses a block/unblock set of buttons in Outlook. If you get mail and it's spam, you choose to Block it. If a whole bunch of people do the same, the rest of the people never see the spam: it gets put into a spam folder for you to review, if you want, at your leisure. Why is this important? More than 90% of my email is spam. If I were to spend the time deleting it all by hand, I would never get anything done. In fact, SpamNet keeps track of the time it saves me: as of this morning, it's saved me over 60 hours of spam deleting, and stopped nearly 25,000 pieces of spam. If you find a piece of spam is actually desired, you can u...

Thanks to my new god, Edward Ho, comes this wonderful urban poem on the fate of a Hummer foolishly used in San Francisco. Enjoy.

Well, well, well. Looks like it's time for another friend's 15 minutes of fame! Check out Christine Fox in this article on Travelzoo, where she works; take a look at the pic!