Blogspotting nonsense
If you use Bell Sympatico for your DSL service and you want to post a comment on BusinessWeek’s new (faux?) blog, beware that it may not work. I read their post “Case study of a marketing blog: Nokia’s 7700″ and wanted to post the following comment: In what way is this a “slick marketing effort”, [...]
My new addiction
I’ve posted previously about my Blackberry addiction, but since I’ve been working mostly from my home office, I’ve become less reliant on it as an email device over the past few months (except for the Day That My Router Died). I must have an addictive personality, however, because I always find something new on which [...]
Important Insurance Documents
I just received an envelope in the mail from my home/auto insurance company, a company that regularly sends me all sorts of flyers, offers to upgrade and other trash. On the outside of the envelope was printed: Important Insurance Document Please Open Just how much junk mail do you have to send to your customers [...]
(Not) Working at Home
I can totally relate to Ces’ Drink At Work post today: although I don’t write comic strips, I do work at home and I understand the state of avoidance that leads to all sorts of other activities, ranging from dusting to watching reruns of CSI, and the total failure to attend to trivial things such [...]
Toads around the world
By the way, of all the “exploding German toad” stories that I read today, I liked The Register’s version the best. The article references the cane toad infestation of Australia, about which I recall seeing a very funny documentary several years back.
Long-Distance Relationships
I have a long-distance relationship: 9.2km, according to Yahoo! maps. That may not seem like a great distance, but it keeps us apart during the week, primarily by our choice. We both work more than half the time from our respective homes so have some amount of flexibility, but neither of us can easily pick [...]
Mr. Personality
Although I’m mildly introverted, Damir is really introverted: if he were to take a Myers-Briggs test, he’d be about as far towards “Introversion” as you can get on the Extraversion-Introversion scale. However, he’s very funny and very intelligent, so when he does open his mouth, there’s a greater chance of something interesting coming out. We [...]
The last word on Bell
My actions over Bell Sympatico’s ad campaign, documented in my rants here and here, finally bore fruit a few weeks ago, thanks to the nice people at Advertising Standards Canada. Apparently, their complaints to Bell actually were heard, as opposed to those of us minions who just received the standard form letter from Bell in [...]
Having a wife
All this reconnecting lately, I hooked up with someone who I went to university with over 20 years ago — that’s enough to make me feel old! When I last talked to him, his kids were about 2 and 3 years old, and they’re now 9 and 10. I’ve met his wife a few times, [...]
