Goodies in the post
Feb. 27th, 2006 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringOK, I'm a sucker for a giveaway. I've got two domain names registered, and I've been trying to find a way of making good use of them. An Australian developer's magazine was doing a sunscription offer - a year's subscription and it came with a how-to manual for DotNetNuke from Wrox. After some very feeble experimenting with LAMP, I decided to return to my roots and sent away. Time passed. No book.
Today it arrived, but it wasn't a book. It was a computer toolkit. A very nice toolkit, and it's their current giveaway offer, but I wanted the book, dammit! I only subscribed because of the book. Humph.
Adding insult to injury, the packaging contained no hint of the sender or why it had been sent. Just my address on the padded envelope. Way to build customer relationships, guys!
Better, though still very tardy, was Symantec and a giveaway offer from last year. Buy a copy of Norton Internet Security and you get a $30 cashback and a 256Mb USB key for upgrading. I figured that with the rebates I was getting the package for not a real lot, so I upgraded. Three months for the cheque to arrive and a couple more weeks for the key. A very nice key, so I'm chucking my old 64Mb key in with my laptop auction.
That leaves three packages I'm expecting. Two from ebay, being two shirts and a vest in one package and a jacket in another. And the third from LL Bean, being a sturdy brightly coloured duffle on wheels.
Hurry up Mr Postman!
Today it arrived, but it wasn't a book. It was a computer toolkit. A very nice toolkit, and it's their current giveaway offer, but I wanted the book, dammit! I only subscribed because of the book. Humph.
Adding insult to injury, the packaging contained no hint of the sender or why it had been sent. Just my address on the padded envelope. Way to build customer relationships, guys!
Better, though still very tardy, was Symantec and a giveaway offer from last year. Buy a copy of Norton Internet Security and you get a $30 cashback and a 256Mb USB key for upgrading. I figured that with the rebates I was getting the package for not a real lot, so I upgraded. Three months for the cheque to arrive and a couple more weeks for the key. A very nice key, so I'm chucking my old 64Mb key in with my laptop auction.
That leaves three packages I'm expecting. Two from ebay, being two shirts and a vest in one package and a jacket in another. And the third from LL Bean, being a sturdy brightly coloured duffle on wheels.
Hurry up Mr Postman!
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Date: 2006-02-27 07:14 pm (UTC)