Every now and then, the person or persons who submit their complaints to FMyLife.com are so clearly exaggerating that only a nincompoop would believe their fish tales. And when I say “every now and then” what I’m really trying to say is, “almost always.” These little submissions aren’t terribly long, but there are lines you [...]
An open letter to my Blackberry
Dear Mobile Phone, We’ve known each other for about three months now, and I think it’s safe to say that we’re pretty good friends. You connect me to people, remind me I have things to do, and you even finish my sentences for me. But there’s something you really ought to realize by now: I almost never [...]
An excellent comment from a copyfighter
A user who calls himself Ryan Ramage, a local software developer (oh, and I don’t mean to imply this isn’t his name. But these are the internets, after all), made some excellent comments today on michaelgeist.ca about copyright as it relates to innovation and creativity. Maybe not the kind of comment that blows you out [...]
The beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad, so I had one more for dessert
I have a cat. She irritates me. But then, I irritate her as well. It’s a love/hate thing. I feed her; she loves me. She wakes me up at 5am; I hate her. I come home and snuggle her; I love her. I chase her around the house trying to poke her in the bum; [...]
$85,000 for mobile porn
I have very little sympathy for a Calgary man who racked up $85K in cellphone charges because he didn’t know you couldn’t download the entire internet to your handset. Staniaszek said he signed up with Bell Mobility to pay $10 a month to use a mobile browser on his cellphone. “I thought it was the [...]
Wine cheereth God and man
You’ll note that I have a particular fondness for wine. And for drinking said wine. A glass a day, they tell me, is best. So, I added another page to the old blog, called “Vino” (see the link above). I’ll add wines as I try them (or remember the one’s I’ve already tried) and I’ll [...]