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Archive for June, 2008

BountyUp Contracts Too Small

A lot of BountyUp contracts are under a few hundred dollars, with items perhaps satisfying the long tail. I hope the service begins hosting assurance contracts for larger initiatives, like funding the 2008 Olympics (too late, taxpayers allready are on the hook for that one) or long term care for seniors.

Canoscan Toolbox is Poop

Excuse my potty mouth.  Canonscan toolbox is total crap.  It takes special people to make crappy software.  Someone should make a website to out the members of software teams (i.e. programmers, product managers (especially product managers), etc.) that produce software the wastes vasts amounts of time and causes human stress.Canoscan Toolbox used to work. Then [...]

The Sad State of Online Credit Card Statements

The only reason to use online credit card statements I can think of is for electronic filing.  It should take less time to download the statement than to scan and OCR in a batch feed scanner.

Amex Canada.  Its ok once you find where to log in on the web site.  Your eye is not drawn [...]

Firefox 3 Doesn’t Render Nicely

For example, as the browser width decreases, the stuff the used to float and pop under in FF2 no longer does, and no horizontal scrollbars appear to help the user see what is cut off.
I don’t know whether to wait for the next release or spend a weekend trying to get my layout working.

Another Trimark Employee Deserts

Another deserter.  The company and brand are intact, but how about their process and key employees?  I think they just have a brand now.  Time to move on.

Why Are We Still Writing Cheques?

I received an invoice for a service I recently received.  Instead of logging into my bank account and clicking “pay invoice”, typing in an invoice number,  and receiving a virtual canceled cheque,  I need to:

find my chequebook
write a cheque
address an envelope
find a stamp
put the darn thing in the mail

Will someone please build a solution where [...]

Syntactic Noise For RDF

Anyone care to illustrate the syntactic noise in an RDF sample?

No Way Up For Women

My friend Sherry Towers  had  an article published in NewsScientist “No Way Up For Women”.

What is worse? Tofu or Bisphenol?

Which is the worse hormone disruptor?  Which leads to more birth defects?  Eating Tofu, or all the sources of Bisphenol a mother is exposed to combined?
Via Mercola “Mothers who ate a vegetarian diet during pregnancy had a fivefold greater risk of delivering a boy with hypospadias, a birth defect of the penis. The authors of [...]