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Toms Shoes needs to learn about internet security

Just ordered some shoes from Toms. Love the shoes, but was a little disconcerted to find the following email in my inbox:

I redacted what was there -- my plaintext password, sent in an email. Wat?

Especially disconcerting because I told the website to save my billing information.

Setting up email subscriptions and notifications in Drupal 7

Drupal Level: Beginner-Intermediate

Email notifications are the glitter of community sites: very few people passionately like them, but you'll never get rid of them. Probably the most typical use case on a Drupal site is to send an email notification to let a node's author know that someone's commented on their node. I just spent the good part of an afternoon setting this up on a Drupal 7 site, and thought I'd pass along some time saving tips.

AT&T doesn't want my money

NEW: Follow up from AT&T posted below.

My original Jawbone bluetooth headset is on its last legs and I've heard great things about the new Jawbone Icon. After mulling it over for about a week, I rolled over to the AT&T store in Pleasant Hill to pick one up. What a mistake!

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