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I saw this AP photo of Typhoon Haitang bearing down on the city of Hangzhou (China) and thought — man, that could be a poster for Ghostbusters.

At work, people (and programs!) using email who mistakenly type subjects containing the word “page” into the “To:” or “Cc:” line instead of the “Subject:” line end up sending me email. Given the nature of our business, the word “page” comes up frequently in emails. I never reply to these, just delete them. But I [...]

I’ll bet the Centers for Disease Control would love this site. A notable quote from the press release: … most comprehensive relational relationship database. Huh?

The new Hertz web site is miles and miles better than the one it replaces. More functionality, easier to find your way around, and it even works in non-IE browsers now. Not all the bugs are worked out, however:

Jeremy wonders how much anchor text matters, and opines that a company named “Click Here” would never make it to the first page of the search results. So true. Or is it? Another common word used as anchor text is “download”: on Google on Yahoo! While download.com appears at the top (which I suppose you’d [...]

OK, nothing to do with analytics or Yahoo. I was reading news feeds today and came across a press release where a PR person announced he has started a blog, “to Share Insight and Observations on Society, Politics and Business” (his caps). I dunno, maybe it’s the coffee, but I think this is funny. Who [...]