Speaking of shady business practices and sneaking things in under inattentive consumers,
CT writes about Shutterfly’s shipping charges. Shipping is a profit generator for them.
We occasionally buy things from overseas and have them shipped here. As long as an American shipper doesn’t handle it, the cost of shipping is often far less than having [...] Read more »

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Here’s another Spam concept that I find pretty funny. Some software — or spammer — or someone has decided it would be a good way to foil some filters by using random words in the *name* field. So I get email from people like “Anglophiles G. God,” “Seismology P. Cerise” [Cerise == "cherry red"], and [...] Read more »

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OK, enough with the politics for the time being. There are other things in my life, like cable television and beaches. Perhaps I should start with the cable television.
For almost as long as I can remember, cable television has been a utility more than anything else. Whenever my family moved anywhere, getting cable was a [...] Read more »

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