Category Archives: rant

Gift registries gone crazy

It’s wedding season. I’m at the age right now where for the past 3 summers and for the next who-knows-how-many summers I have and will attend anywhere from 3-7 weddings a year. Yikes.
A good friend of mine is getting married in a couple weeks, and I was discussing what gift I would be getting [...]

Engaging the enterprise in emerging trends

In large and small scale businesses there is a divide — one that separates the business from the more technical folk. In today’s marketplace, it is critical that these two forces meet somewhere in the middle, sharing an understanding of commonplace technical terms, techniques and trends. It’s scary when a business lead is driving an [...]

One way to increase membership…

Don’t ask for money, just bill people instead.
We all rely on shortcuts to simplify our lives and that’s why some unscrupulous marketers try to make their junk mail look like legitimate bills. They know a certain percentage of us will simply pay them without thinking. So I was a little upset to see the Minneapolis [...]

Update on How to Cancel a MySpace Account

If you can believe it, it’s been 5 months since I posted on How to Cancel a MySpace Account. It’s not over yet! And it’s really starting to irk me.
About a month ago (yes, it’s taken me this long to post about this) I received the MySpace Newsletter in my Inbox. Seriously.
I’m [...]

How to Cancel a MySpace Account

This will be my first post on MNteractive, but I’m a frequent reader. I recently tried to cancel my MySpace account, but I’m still not quite sure if I actually did. The experience was not only very challenging, but very confusing and highly irritating. How many “cancels” does it take to cancel a MySpace account? [...]

Why does my cell phone suck so much?

I have a Samsung phone. The freebie you get with T-Mobile. Ok, yea, it’s a freebie, so I can’t complain that much. Yea, the buttons are insanely small even for my girly hands. Yea, the on-screen menu has 40 options I’ll never need to use. Ever. Yes, the ringtones are annoying beyond belief. I can [...]