Those of you who know me or read this site will understand that I have very strong feelings about how financial and credit card transactions are supposed to work. Today I attempted to purchase a textbook for SCI 205, Physics of High Fidelity Sound Reproduction. Apparently the original book used for the course is out [...]
Tagged credit card, financial, merchant, university, waterlooI honestly don’t know why I subject myself to Mashable’s content in a set of regular RSS subscriptions; I may have to unsubscribe from it just to prevent a blown vessel. I’ve briefly mentioned the site before in a similar vein, but today’s insipid read was a simply delightful piece about how brands belong on Twitter.
Let’s [...]
This is an angry post written in uncov style. I may submit it over there if it’s sufficiently full of bile and vitriol.
Digg: the little news aggregator and home for moronic comments that could. I’m finally giving up on it, yet not for some presumed lack of Kevin Rose fanboy love. This particular train has [...]
While it may seem like all I write about these days is Rogers, it’s really the only thing I’ve been dealing with on the service provider front. All my other corporate relations have been going well: I pay people money and they provide a service without bothering me unduly. (I must congratulate the wireless business [...]
Tagged dns, internet, network, rogers, vpnReading Kotaku earlier today, I noticed an article about one of Sony’s upcoming video games, LittleBigPlanet. This year, David Reeves decided to suggest that selling one’s own creations in LittleBigPlanet amounts to “iTunes meets eBay”. This is the second year in a row Sony executives have compared their product to “iTunes meeting X”, where X [...]
Tagged aaagh, conference, e3, ebay, itunes, littlebigplanet, sonyAs the informal network weasel in my new place, I get the wonderful joy of troubleshooting malfunctioning appliances and making sure that the router eats as few Xbox Live sessions as possible. Since I’m just lazy enough not to want to set up a Linux routing box, the current approach for networking is two connections [...]
Tagged boo you fail, dns, dsl, firmware, internet, linksys, opendns, rogers, router, teksavvy, tomato, wrt54glFrom Mashable: America’s Got Talent… on MySpace.
WHAT IS THIS GOD WHY.
Seriously, I’d have a hard time thinking of a worse combination of words. Any takers in the comments?
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