This email will probably only work against legit only stores but may work with others. I wouldn’t try this on a spammer because that really wouldn’t work. There are to many large words for the Nigerian spam lords to interpret and sending an email to a spammer would only confirm that your email is valid. That would only exacerbate your problem and take you further away from online anonymity.

Below is the email I sent to classmates.com. They have/had my email address and I never signed up, nor will I ever sign up, for their service. Something seems a bit fishy about their business practices and having to opt in (create an account) only to opt out again, does not seem conducive to my online rights. Hence my boycott. It took some digging, but I found a working email address that wouldn’t send me back the standard “screw off, we don’t monitor this account” email.

I was having a conversation with my best friend and we came to the realization that there are only a few different types of apps. We were talking about apps that just contain information about someone from their personal blog; a business card app of sorts. This seems like an excellent idea considering that the iPhone and iPod Touch have an installed base of 70 million devices and with the advent and release of the upcoming iPad, that user base will surely grow as it will support apps right out the gate.

The other thing we noticed is that there are only a few different types of apps on the appstore. A lot of people will debate this, but when you go to the release list and look at what is being released, you’ll see mainly ‘smut apps’; apps that feature scantily clad women. Or you’ll see apps from a developer that is clearly just renaming their app and releasing it again; the buckshot approach. My app will be out there, but it will thirty clones with very similar names. The fireworks app is a prime example, AAA fireworks or A-1 fireworks. The studio/person that released this collection of apps should have their developer license revoked.

It would be good if the smut apps could get their own category so that the other categories could be free of the filth. It detracts from the rest of the apps that actually deserve to be there. Another feature that would be neat to have is that of a developer rank; people can rank the entire suite of apps that are produced/released from a given developer. This would allow people to clearly see that what the developer has done and what their quality is.

The age old debate of using a desktop or a laptop is in my psyche once again. I’ve been biased towards desktops for a long while. I remember going to Macworld when I was like 8 (although it was just for a brief instance-run in a grab a forgotten brick cell phone), and gawking at all the computers, most of which happened to be a desktop. They didn’t have laptops back then and the Apple computer we had, was a desktop. That is when my bias for desktops began.

I have been looking at macbook’s recently because I am constantly on the mac and haven’t turned my desktop rig on in several months. As I was talking to my alter ego last night/this morning, he said he was on his couch and typing; I said I was at my desk (wanting to be reading/working in the bed). I wouldn’t say it was envy, but more of a simplicity. I want to use my desktop, but I just don’t have any need to use it. I have all the programs I need on the mac. I guess the only thing I anticipate is when starcraft 2 comes out, probably the only reason I would/will keep the desktop.

I guess this will probably be the farewell post to my desktop. It was fun while it lasted and boy was it fun putting all the pieces together. May your quad core compute for many years to come.