Today's mail brought a welcome surprise: the 2007 Despair.com catalog. (Despair offers a collection of very funny faux motivational posters like this and this, and my current favorite). I've never ordered anything from them, so I checked the address on the catalog. It was addressed to me at my home address, "Suite I".
Now, let me explain. I don't actually have any suites (well, unless you count the kids' rooms) but I often assign one-letter suite codes when doing business with a new company. Guess who the letter "I" belongs to? Yep: IBM. So, someone at IBM apparently decided to sell customer data to these folks (or, more likely, to a broker who resold them). Perhaps I should start ordering Despair products for the Notes customers I occasionally work with? Now there's an idea...
Posted by Paul at February 16, 2007 04:15 PM