It takes about C$300 for a cell phone company to acquire a new customer but costs only a fraction of that amount to keep an existing one. With so much to lose on the bottom line, why is Canadian GSM carrier FIDO doing all it can to frustrate its current customers during the launch of [...]
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Another URL shortening service!
Nothing at all new here—but I thought it useful to point out another way to turn long URLs into short ones, so you can paste links into emails without them wrapping (and therefore becoming unusable).
Bookmark this one, because it belongs to a friend. Just visit the site, enter the URL you want to abbreviate, and [...]
Make Poverty History in Halton
Make Poverty History is a great campaign I have been interested in for a couple of years. Millions of people around the world are campaigning in support of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. These where signed in 2000 to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015.
John Versluis, Burlington co-ordinator for the Make Poverty History campaign, passed this [...]
The Surrealist Compliment Generator
The Surrealist Compliment Generator is as about as random as you can get. It’s an attempt to put modern web tech in the service of the Surrealist ideal of unpredictable word combinations. Reload the page for a new surrealist compliment as many times as your miind can take. Part of The Surrealism Server.
If I [...]
Wendy the Muscular Whippet
Writes Kim Westad of the Times Colonist:
People mistake her for a pitbull with a pinhead, but Wendy the whippet is one rare breed. So rare that the Central Saanich dog recently graced the New York Times. She also had several of her photos shown on The Today Show, all because of a rare genetic mutation [...]
