Chillin’ with Olivia
Last Sunday brought an enormous, city-closing snowstorm to Toronto, and our condo holiday party — good attendance because no one wanted to leave the building. Given that many of us are NDP supporters, we also had a visit from Olivia Chow, our MP, who bundled up in her boots and parka to walk the 1.5km [...]
Latest email scam to watch for
I had seen a warning about this earlier today, but wouldn’t have fallen for it after even the briefest review: First of all, all the links (including the one to Microsoft and all the credit card companies) link to the same scammy web address, which you can see in the final "For security your Credit [...]
Zipcar freebies
I wrote a post back in October talking about Zipcar’s referral program, and included a badge (reproduced here) that would give anyone signing up through it $25 in driving credit, plus $25 in driving credit to me. Amazingly, someone clicked, and I received an email today saying that I have $25 in driving credit from [...]
PM Hell
Every once in a while, I run up against a project manager on a client project who seems to be there just to make my life hell. Usually I just let this roll off me since it’s only a temporary condition — that’s part of why I work as an independent, after all — but [...]
Searching for the perfect desktop search solution
Until recently, I’ve used the free version of X1 for desktop search. Although it can be very resource-intensive during indexing, I love how it indexes Outlook email across multiple PST files, and allows very flexible searching. Last week, I installed a network-attached drive for our shared home office, and that reminded me that the free [...]
Beautie Blundstones
Just bought a pair of these for Damir for Christmas (I’m not ruining the surprise, he was there to try them on): After finally getting him into a decent leather winter coat last year, I think that he’s now almost ready for Toronto winters.
