Not All Robocalls Are Created Equal, So Let’s Stick To The Important Ones

I almost wrote this on Friday, but I wasn’t quite in the right frame of mind. I did however take a bit of a strip off of Guelph provincial Conservative candidate Greg Schirk and strongly thought about tearing a similar one off of city councillor Cam Guthrie over Twitter because of it. The issue at …

Tweet-a-Beer

This is an amazing and possibly way too expensive idea.Tweet-a-Beer – web app for sending a $5 beer through linking Twitter and PayPal accounts. How exactly does this work? Tweet-a-Beer is powered by Chirpify, a commerce platform for Twitter. Chirpify is the magic that connects your Twitter account to PayPal in order to pre-approve payments. …

Spring Ahead…Into My Thought Pool

Now that I’ve got my email fixed, it’s ramblin’ time! I’m so happy that winter was not too bad to us, but I’m even happier that spring just might be on its way. It’ll take me a long time to truly believe it’s here since winter never really got going, but whatever this weather is, …

Massive Yahoo Email Server Fail Made An Angry Thunderbird!

Yesterday morning, I got a rather nasty surprise. Early in the morning, I was happily able to send mail. Then at about 10 or so, I tried to send a reply to a message on a mailing list and got the following rather unhelpful error message. An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server …

Are You Sure You Need Those Cookies, Fatty?

This is a little weird and creepy in a the machines are taking over sort of way, but it also looks kind of neat. Microsoft, Whole Foods and a company called Chaotic Moon are teaming up to build a robot shopping cart. It follows you around the store, helps you keep track of the items …

I’m Baaack…I Think

So yeah…I haven’t posted for nearly two weeks. Definite fail…although failing at blogging seems to be a regular occurrence for me now. I think, *knocks on wood* that I’m out of the medical woods. I feel better, and bunches of my problems appear to be vanishing. It’s funny. I’ve had this since I was a …

More Thoughts On The Leafs And Goaltenders

In my last post, I talked a bit about the Leafs and their goaltender issues. I said I wasn’t quite sure what the problem is, but I think Mike Brophy nailed a good part of it in this piece. It’s partly coaching, but my biggest problem has been with consistency, which I suppose makes it …