Archive for November 9th, 2005

Update

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Heh. In this morning’s mailbag I received one item of junk mail, from Hamilton. Who tell me that if I fax back their form for the International Biotech and Lab something-or-other Preview I will ‘have the chance to win an iPod nano’.

Argh!

iPod mania

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

This is on-topic, honest.

A well-known crisp company (that’s ‘chips’ to you colonials) ran an offer last month. Every bag of crisps had a unique code stamped on it that got you one entry in an hourly (hourly!) draw to win an iPod. One an hour. For a month. That’s an imperial lorry load of iPods.

Needles to say, I didn’t win (boo) but I suddenly find that I’m inundated with offers of free or ‘chances to win’ iPods of one flavour or other. Let’s take a look at the week to date’s haul of junk mail – three items, so not too bad.

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