The folks at overstock.com are out of their collective minds. Check this out: This is a screenshot of the checkout page for a fairly generic $129.99 item (a foam mattress thing). $110.80 for International Shipping & Handling? And another $62.99 for Customs, Duties, Taxes, Insurance? I said that I’d pay a little more for shipping […]
I’m a loyal Canadian. I enjoy Tim Hortons, and don’t mind the Canadian Tire guy. But as Canadians, I think we need to get the message across to Americans that we’re not all that much different from them, and not that far away. Why do I say this? Because one too many times I’ve been […]
It’s been kind of fun watching the Ottawa Events site grow in traffic. It’s gotten to the point where I refer to it myself when I’m trying to find out what’s going on this weekend – which was my goal for the site in the first place. I know this sort of thing has been […]
It’s disappointing to see Dare say that RSS Bandit would stay as a .NET Framework 1.1 application for at least a year, maybe two. Why do I want RSS Bandit to be a .NET 2.0 application? I’m not exactly sure. It’s probably similar to the reason that people wanted Win32 apps when Windows 95 was […]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has some good news for us: Here’s good news for women who love coffee: Drinking it doesn’t seem to cause long-term high blood pressure, a study suggests. Yes it says women; but I’ve seen similar studies mentioning these benefits for men as well. But for some reason, women in the same study […]
Amazon’s turning people into machines with their Mechanical Turk project. It’s actually a great idea – package up simple tasks that computers can’t do but humans can, and make it easy for humans to do the work for micropayments. I spent some time rating the quality of pictures of storefronts in various US cities, and […]
7Search has a list of supposedly the top 100 paying keywords on Google Adsense. I have no idea if this list is correct but I can only hope it’s not. According to it, every single one of the top 100 paying keywords is related to online gambling. Most blog spam seems to be filled with […]
X10.com is a cheesy site that’s always doing something annoying with their advertising. There’s always a closeout, always a last minute deal, always something going on that’s BRAND NEW AND WE’LL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN OMG THE PRICES ARE SO LOW. But that aside, they do have some cool stuff, and the prices are good. […]
The Fed raised the interest rate in the US to 4 %. Something like the 12th rate hike in a row. We bought a new house; we’re moving in April. I have a house I need to sell. Rising interest rates makes it harder to sell houses. So for me, this is a bad thing. […]
Microsoft has posted the PDC 05 session videos online. I was at PDC 05, but there were so many good concurrent sessions that there’s a lot of content I’ve been waiting to see on the DVDs. The first thing they did wrong is releasing the content on the web before sending the DVDs to the […]