• Archive for March, 2009

    Burning my hand was bad enough

    by  • 3/4/2009 • health, humor • 0 Comments

    This isn’t my story, the following descriptive piece is from F*** My Life: Today, I was baking cookies. When I took the tray out of the oven I closed the door, but it bounced back open and hit me in the back of the knees. That caused me to sit down on the hot oven [...]

    Read more →

    Save the whales but torture the webmasters

    by  • 3/3/2009 • work • 0 Comments

    In the event you’re technically skilled webmaster with a social consciousness and are looking for work, Greenpeace is hiring someone for their downtown Toronto office. The ad sounds like you’d be the sole person responsible for the entire English language Greenpeace online presence, generating content as well as maintaining the systems that provide the framework. [...]

    Read more →

    Passive aggressive email?

    by  • 3/3/2009 • work • 0 Comments

    I received an email response to an application I made for a job in Toronto, inviting me to submit some potential times for a telephone interview. This isn’t that uncommon in the industry, and it does save time trying to reach candidates who are either at the office, or otherwise unable to talk. Where it [...]

    Read more →

    It’s the little things

    by  • 3/2/2009 • Halifax • 0 Comments

    The dog and I are just back from our walk, and we met the most interesting example of a born and raised Maritimer when we were on our way out. Okay, so he spoke clear English and wasn’t drunk, and he likely gets his fish from the store, but he has one of the earmarks [...]

    Read more →

    That’s a bit of overkill…

    by  • 3/1/2009 • life • 0 Comments

    I was signing up for hulu.com today, and noticed something unusual as I was filling in my fake address. I’m forced to use a fake address because I’m not in the USA, and they try to restrict access. I say try because they do so in a rather broken way that any 12 year old [...]

    Read more →