I found out about this a while back and wanted to see if it would work: If you want to eliminate junk mail offers, call 1-888-5-OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688) to eliminate your information from direct mail marketing lists from all 4 major credit bureaus. (In the US.) It’s been about 4 months since I did this,...
Archive for September, 2005
Annoy telemarketers back: Telecrapper 2000 (Open Source)
Some very clever people who were annoyed with telemarketers decided to create some computer code to annoy them back. Telemarketers use technology to increase their productivirty. These clever people decided to use the same technology to lower the productivity of telemarketers. It is kind of like a honeypot on a network to slow down...
Face-to-Face with Death
I wrote about my Grandpa and his fight againt Merkel Cell Carcinoma in this post. The battle appears to be a losing one. He is now back at home in hospice care. This means that his life expectancy may be less than two weeks. In the last few weeks he has refused chemotherapy, and...