Happy Holidays to you and all your loved ones.


(picture by me)

Trina: I am going to play/ask a question now, but don't worry, your answer does not have to be related to the question at all. As long as you stick to your time limit, anything goes.

Jack: The question does not really matter, and I am not going to spend any time on telling you what we will be doing. What matters is what the liberals did wrong.

Steve: We are going to do everything better and everyone is going to get more money and have to pay less taxes. How? I am not telling.

Paul: We were just about to take care of everything we promised and we were also mending what we broke, but the other parties are not letting us finish!

Gilles: The only thing what matters is what Quebec wants. And just so you know, we know exactly what Quebec wants, because we are Quebec. And don't forget, everything is a provincial issue. C'est la faut du federal!

(And I didn't even need to watch all of it to write this summary )

I recently came across Riya, a new online photo service.

Basically this is a service where you upload your pictures and identify people in the pictures. The system will then also be able to identify the same people on other pictures. Sounds like something Flickr should be adding.

The part that I am not so sure about here is the privacy. Making all of this information publicly available is certainly a concern - just think about all the places that would love to license and have access to this information in order to identify people.

So Open Letters on Blog actually do get a response. Here the one I got a while back with regards to my Open Letter to Blinds to Go.

Your Open letter to us is brought to our attention by a Blinds To Go employee today. We apologize for your not getting the information the first time you asked for it. But here is the link (https://www.blindstogo.com/blindstogo/customerservice/privacypolicy.asp) to our Privacy Policy - it is applicable to customers purchased from our stores as well as online. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We have already made sure to inform our stores about our Privacy Policy.

As per your request, we will remove your information from our future mailings. Meanwhile, we will be investigating why you have been receiving our offers.


Response to a follow-up email:

Yes, the same policy applies to both US and Canadian stores. We have now informed all our stores about it and will remind them regularly so that new employees will be aware of it as well. Thank you for your suggestion

Please feel free to post our response to your website. Meanwhile, we hope you will continue to enjoy our products and services and share your experience with us and the online community.

I have recently started a new blog, which I would still consider in Beta Status. You will see fewer posts on domain name related issues here, since those are being moved to the "Domain Editorial", which is located at http://www.domaineditorial.com/ .