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Posted by Fitz Haile on November 26, 2007 at 04:54 PM
Maybe it’s the fact that it’s the Monday after a holiday, maybe I’m just ornery this afternoon, or maybe this just sucks.
Either way, I had a minor brain aneurysm after attempting the unholy task of unsubscribing from Microsoft marketing spam and I thought I’d share to provide an example of what not to do.
My thought is, if you want me to have warm fuzzies, please at least try to make it easy for me to stop receiving email from you. I know we’ve had a few email issues ourselves, but come on. If they tried, they couldn’t have made it more unhelpful, tedious or mind-numbingly annoying to stop receiving unsolicited email.
From their unsubscribe page:
Three options!? Profile center!? Don’t make me choose. Along with the rest of the world, I have severe adult ADD and have no patience for choosing, menus, passwords or reading.
Just unsubscribe me. Please.
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Step Up - Savannah’s Poverty Reduction Initiative - invites you to step up and out of your comfort zone and into the shoes of our community’s working poor. “Welcome to the State of Poverty†is Savannah’s adaptation of a copyrighted poverty simulation tool made available by the Missouri Association for Community Action (MACA). It will be held on Tuesday, November 27th from 1:00-3:30pm at the Savannah Civic Center.
UPDATE: Step Up Savannah’s Poverty Simulation has been postponed until further notice. I will be sure to post the new date, as soon as I hear when it will take place.
Poverty simulations are intended to bring individuals together from all walks of the community who assume the roles of family members living in poverty trying to survive for a month, in four 15-minute “weeks.†(Please note that while I do not think one can fully be exposed to the true experience of poverty in a 2-hour event - this program definitely serves to educate, open eyes and make participants more sensitive to those who struggle with this reality on a daily basis.)
Step Up will utilize volunteers to play the roles of landlords, utility company representatives, lenders and others, while participants are exposed to the feeling of what it’s like to live as a family, making less than $20,000 a year. Exposing community members to the day-to-day of people living in poverty sheds a light on the realities of poverty and opens eyes to how difficult daily decisions may be.
Water or heat; diapers or formula? These are some of the unpleasant, but all too realistic decisions you’re asked to make.
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So, my friend and colleague, Amanda, asked me to help her out with an event this week. Now, I knew going in that she has affection for maps and all things geography, what with a degree in it, and all. The event - GIS Day, Savannah - was the creative coast’s first effort to recognize GIS Day, which is an internationally observed acknowledgment and celebration of geography and careers in geographic information systems (GIS).
And, I would like to tell you that Savannah’s inaugural celebration of maps, data, geography and general nerdery was a great success!
A whole lot of folks came together from various organizations to help Savannah Area GIS (SAGIS) put on the local event that not only exhibited the truly diverse capabilities and applications of GIS analysts, engineers, cartographers and various scientists, but was actually cool and educational. Seriously. I learned a lot. And, more importantly, so did over 200 local middle school students who were invited to attend the event, held at the Savannah Civic Center.
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Posted by Fitz Haile on November 14, 2007 at 04:13 PM
So yea, we woke up yesterday and were 50% bigger.
Effective yesterday morning at 10:30 AM (at the SEDA board meeting), The Creative Coast Initiative has merged with it’s little (big) sis…the Coastal Business Educational and Technology Alliance (cBETA).
The newly combined organizations will now be known as The Creative Coast Alliance. (Sounds kinda ominous and big-brothery. “The Alliance.”) The cBETA brand (and eventually the website) will cease to exist and will be brought under the new “Alliance” brand and current TCCi (now TCCa) website. Fun with non-profit mergers!
What gives, you ask? You’re supposed to be quick-moving, light and agile, ready to leap trendy historic office spaces in a single bound, you say? Gobbling up cBETA? Oh the humanity!
Chill people. It’s not a that big deal…well maybe, but it’s really cool.
A little about both of us from the press release:
In its 11-year existence, the Coastal Business, Education and Technology Alliance (cBETA) has focused on professional development and networking as well as the development of infrastructure to support Savannah’s knowledge-based community. In 2003, cBETA helped to create The Creative Coast Initiative, which has focused on attracting, nurturing and promoting knowledge-based business in Savannah. Merging the two entities affords more efficient use of resources and capabilities.
Posted by Fitz Haile on November 8, 2007 at 06:22 PM
I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t help it.
I may be called on to resign…but I had to share. We have a duty to our blogging public, after all.
I was reading about the recent mayoral landslide and saw that our good friend received 683 votes. Savannah, you’re scaring me. Seriously.
At any rate, I thought I’d humor myself and do a google search. So I did, and this is what I saw:
 First please note a few things:
- There is a sponsored google listing for the spoofed J.D. mayoral site. That means this prankster is soooo convinced of his funny (to be fair, his site is pretty funny), that not only is he willing to pay for hosting of this spoofed site, he’s also willing to shell out cash for the leading google ad.
- Despite being a little sad and slightly pathetic, this is actually pretty amusing. What’s even more amusing are the different cycling taglines (”Vote for me or I’ll sue you” is my personal favorite, for obvious reasons.) Do a couple of google searches for our good buddy J.D. and you’ll see what I mean.
I don’t know if any of you were around on last Friday before Halloween, but there was a costume party and I didn’t go.
And I’m glad. Cause I would have lost it.
In the spirit of getting the two blog-enthused cloned ones (pictured below) off my back, I’m publishing my blog post for the week…with a hint of sweet revenge.
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It turns out we were all blessed with two Fitz’s and two Millers last (last) Friday. That’s twice the smirking smart-alics and twice the spectacled flip-flops, respectfully.
Blake Ellis of SmackDab Studios pulled off a perfect Fitz, sporting a pink shirt, blue blazer and jeans. Classically hilarious. All that was missing was a little bit off the top. ;) Well done sir.
Adorned with black pony-tailed wig, shorts, round specs, and my favorite - flipflops with black socks (check out the picture) - Tommy Linstroth of Melaver, Inc. was the spitting image of our fearless leader. He even resigned himself to repeatedly reciting such Millerisms as “did you know Savannah has 44,000 students and 33,000 miles of fiber optic cable?”
Posted by Fitz Haile on November 4, 2007 at 08:30 PM
For those of you who aren’t huge email nerds, or just have been living under a rock (devoid of Google news) lately, let me be the one to tell you (a week or so late) that “IMAP is now available for Gmail.”
Hells yea.
 What is IMAP and why should you care? Well, beyond standing for Internet Message Access Protocol, it’s a basically a fancy term for a technology that allows you to sync all your email mailboxes automatically. That is, your webmail, your desktop mail client and any other device that can handle the IMAP protocol. By “sync” I mean making sure all your read messages, deleted messages, tagged messages, etc all are constant across devices, email clients etc.
If you’re anything like me, you check your email in multiple ways and hundreds of times a day. I check it at work through my desktop mail client, at home through Gmail, and everywhere else (to everyone’s chagrin) through my crackberry.
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