Matt Bors presents a surprisingly good idea on how to save print journalism, working from the success that another free-at-home product has seen thanks to packaging. As he says in his blog entry “Behold my completely serious, entirely workable, fail proof plan for saving newspapers. Free papers should go this route as well. Why deny [...]
Read more →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 →Movie and TV show tie-in web games don’t often impress me on a technical level; it must still be hard to put a value on a good web experience and secure good budget for it. I still check them out, hoping for something that adds to the story. With more than a couple strikes against [...]
Read more →There’s a decent amount of home computer work to be done; a laptop to disassemble in order to retrieve and destroy a failing CPU fan, a soon to fail hard drive to replace in the TV machine, and some updates to the file server that I’ve been meaning to do. The TV machine is easy [...]
Read more →Molson Canadian's Do Over Day? I don’t know about you, but I would kill to have a chance to be Phil Connors, stuck in Punxsutawney for a little while in the film Groundhog Day. Going back and doing a single day over and over again; learning a language, learning to play an instrument, and all [...]
Read more →Surprise discount, originally uploaded by xinit. I was on my way to work and saw a book that I might enjoy at the Coles bookstore in the mall here. I liked Lynne Truss’ Eats, Shoots and Leaves well enough, so maybe this book on rudeness would be good too. It was on the bargain table [...]
Read more →It’s no real wonder that people have problems with telcos… One Telus rep tells me in no uncertain terms that they don’t support GPS and that it’s Rim’s fault that there’s no GPS and that I can feel free to call Rim and complain to them. Rep ignores the fact that there’s a big “GPS” [...]
Read more →Using some exceptionally helpful information I have found on a couple livejournal posts, I think it’s time to update the old resume again… I might just copy and paste chunks from the Cthulhu resume. I swear some of these entries should appear on my own resume, or I could see appearing on those of my [...]
Read more →Sounds something like the opening to a joke that plays on cultural stereotypes, but it’s nothing of the sort. This is the story of Penn Jillette and his cohorts hosting the final step in the deconversion of a former Orthodox Jew; complete with shellfish, plenty of pork, and of course, the Kosher Buster itself; the [...]
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