The Great Canadian Rip-off
In case there’s any doubt that we’re being ripped off by retailers here in Canada, I went looking for a hard drive upgrade for my laptop today. On the HP US site, it’s $US237.50: On the HP Canada site, it’s $C318: However, a deposit of $US funds to my bank account earlier today showed that [...]
Zipcar referral program
Zipcar has a new referral program, where if I refer someone, we both get $25 in driving credit. Pretty good deal, eh? Click on the badge at the right to sign up for Zipcar using my referral code. I’ve had pretty good experiences with Zipcar so far; I documented my first one here, and have [...]
World Press Photo winners on display
The World Press Photo exhibit is on display in the atrium of Brookfield Place (formerly BCE Place) in downtown Toronto until October 24th. I checked it out today and it’s magnificent. It’s free, and open from 7am-10pm. Since these are photographs, the exhibit is going on in several cities at the same time, and is [...]
Still life and landscape photos
For those of you who may have enjoyed my Flickr photos from Provence, Florence and Venice, you probably noticed that they were taken by my very talented photographer friend Pat — she didn’t have a Flickr Pro account at the time that we took the trip, so allowed me to post them on my account. [...]
I went to Austin…
…and all I got was this photo credit. I’m having a lot of fun watching how my Flickr photos pop up in different places around the web.
Screwed 2.0
You know that a Web 2.0 company is likely in trouble when their new and improved monetization scheme is to nuke their free basic accounts without notice, holding their users’ data hostage pending a signup to a paid premium account. That’s exactly what happened today with Eventbrite, an event registration service that I’ve used in [...]
My 5km
If you know me in person, you know that I’m not much of an athlete, but I decided to do a 5km walk this past weekend as part of the Scotiabank marathon to raise money for a friend’s pet charity, the Fort York Food Bank. Amazingly, I walked the 5km in 48 minutes. Even more [...]
