Monday, September 18, 2006 at 07:33AM Thanks to Mark Evans for this link - the directory of amazing web2.0 appications. It's intensive, and exhaustive, not to mention attractive.
Holy moley. You could spend hours fiddling around here. The trick question is, how many apps would you COME BACK to?
technorati tags:web 2.0 applications, Mark Evans
Friday, September 15, 2006 at 09:15AM Four e-mail spamming ops shut down(15 Sep 2006)The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down four illegal e-mail spamming operations, including one that offered the opportunity to "date lonely wives," the agency said....
ITWorld Canada - The online resource for Canadian Information Technology professionals.
Funny, that the FCC has to get involved to shut down spammers. In my past experience, if you were a spammer in Canada, as soon as you sent out more than 100,000 emails, you were breaking a gazillion terms of use policies with the ISP, even if you were a wholesale hosting customer. I would have thought the same rules would have applied. And if there weren't rules to that effect, some light bulb would start creating them as part of the terms of service in the contracts. Silly loopholes. Nothing feels better than shutting down someone who's in breach of the terms of service.
It's the little things that can make your day.
Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 05:48PM The Canadian Telecom Hall of Fame will induct six new members next month: Rogers Communications CEO Ted Rogers; radio entrepeneur Edward Rogers Sr.; walkie-talkie inventor Donald Hings; rural telephone pioneer Leila Wightman; lawyer Ernie Saunders and public phone advocate Francis Dagger.I thought for sure Mark was joking, but sure enough, there *really* is a Telecom Hall of Fame. In Canada, no less. With awards, and a website and everything. Now I really have seen everything. Wow. I think I'm going to be speechless now.
technorati tags:Canadian Telecom Hall of Fame
Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 05:51PM Funny, how if I am negligent on posting, especially in my telco section of the blog, the subscribers drop off like flies..... it's a fickle blog world.
At some point, life will just start getting completely in the way. Already I am feeling the tingly guilt of not contributing enough. Silly me.
technorati tags:blog pressures
Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 05:54PM 3 weeks of not being able to run 2 VPNs and a VoIP phone. Silliness. So out it goes. So much for install fees. After struggling again today, for the last time, i breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that it's only temporary. I give. The towel has been thrown down.
Up next, replacing the Primus VoIP for Vonage VoIP. I know not to bite the hand that may one day feed me ;-)
Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 05:42PM I feel dirty.
I looked. I looked at the whole technorati results page, and it didn't hit me till the end, when I was wondering where all the real results were.. and it hit me. It was ALL spam.
I was looking to see what people were saying about using VoIP on their cell phones.... and all i ended up with was garbage. Mind you, I have a good lead on a vintage wedding dress, and a supplier for Zoloft. Ask your doctor if Zoloft is right for you?
How do we get around this sort of nonesense? Can Technorati do something to filter the bad from the good?
Yeesh. Disappointing.
technorati tags:Technorati, spam
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 08:18AM Disney-branded fruit and veggiesDisney has partnered with Imagination Farms, a produce distributor that sells cartoon-branded fruits and veggies, to fill the produce aisle with Disney-brand fruit. Other companies' characters -- SpongeBob, Taz and others -- will also appear on fruit this year.
Boing Boing: Disney-branded fruit and veggies
This development freaks me out.
Can there be any other more shameful way to exploit kids and parents and pander to their basest, commercial urges? Sure! Wrap a banana in SpongeBob Squarepants parephenalia... then kids will eat it!!!
Good God. The little baby jesus is crying.
What happened to to the good old days, when parents were parents, and kids were kids, and family life was not a negotiating-sitcom inspired democracy?
Eat yer damn plain banana and stop whining.
(Note: expressive curse words have been deleted)
technorati tags:Disney Fruit, Fruit of the Devil, Parenting
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 07:35AM Wow, it's rare that i'm ahead of the curve on neat techno bits....but in this case, it's true!
I've been using and raving about Pandora for about a year now, and just over the weekend, the cool kids wrote about what could arguably be the niftiest music learning and discovery application ever.
technorati tags:Pandora
