Archive for November 26th, 2002

Dear Friends.

I have been watching you very closely to see if you
have been good this year and since you have I will
be telling my elves to make some goodies for me to
leave under your tree at Christmas. I was going to bring
you all gifts from the 12 days of Christmas, but we
had a little problem. The 12 fiddlers fiddling have
all come down with VD from fiddling with the
10 ladies dancing, the 11 lords leaping have
knocked up the 8 maids a-milking, and the 9 pipers
piping have been arrested for doing weird things
to the 7 swans a-swimming. The 6 geese a-laying, 4
calling birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves and the
partridge in a pear tree have me up to my sled runners in bird sh*t.

On top of all this Mrs. Claus is going through
menopause, 8 of my reindeer are in heat, 1/2 of the elves
have joined the gay liberation and some people who
can't read a calendar have scheduled Christmas for
the 5th of January. Maybe next year I will be able to get my sh*t
together
and bring you the things you want. This year I
suggest you get your Butts down to Walmart before
everything is gone.

Sincerely,

S. Claus

Opera Baby

http://www.flowgo.com/greetings/operababy/operababy.swf

Email Click Throughs Increasing.

eMarketer: E-Mail Click-Throughs Climb in Q3

According to the Q3 Email Trend Report from DoubleClick, average click-through rates (CTR) for e-mail campaigns grew to 6.13% in Q3 from 4.85% in the previous quarter. DoubleClick notes that this year's Q3 average is on par with the average click-through rate during the same quarter last year.

The report also discusses click-through by industry and types of email (research, marketing, subscription offer, etc.) Haven't we moved beyond click-through though?

[marketingfix]

The Reel Truth

Adrants has found a fine specimen of humor. Check them out.

Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts. With the introduction of version 4.2, PHP has started supporting a new SAPI (Server Application Programming Interface) called CLI (Command Line Interface). This facility was introduced to help developers create small shell applications (scripts) with PHP. So, now you can kiss Perl goodbye forever. – Jayesh Jain

Hear hear. Thanks to my influence, other developers at Natsoft are using PHP for their batch scripts too. Hmm maybe it is because they report to me…

“zeldman.bang” [PHP Everywhere]