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Mobile martyr or burn victim?

Ten years ago when I moved into my condo I switched my mobile service from my then mobile provider to Fido in order to get better reception. And now I’m seriously contemplating switching to another carrier for a much poorer signal — virtually none, in fact, within the walls of my own home.

If it sounds like a stupid idea hear me out; once I’ve told you the whole story I definitely want your opinion. But first, a little history…

Data portability comes to Facebook.

It may not look like much, but it’s a huge leap forward for the Internet’s most popular social network. And since you may not yet have this option — it’s currently being rolled out to users around the world — here’s what you can expect…

In praise of my Facebook friends.

I still don’t think much of Facebook itself, but the friends I’ve made on it are fairly awesome. Why? I asked them to “like” my entry for the contest above and upwards of 200 did so, no questions asked.

I thought I had a pretty strong chance of making the shortlist, at least. But I woke up yesterday morning to this…

Honeycrisp, the other proprietary apple.

I’m a big fan of Fuji apples — together with Royal Galas they are, in my opinion, the sweetest apples for eating that you can get. But there’s another apple that’s in season right now, called the Honeycrisp. I did a bit of Googling and found that their taste compared favourably with my preferred eating apples of choice, so I ordered some from my online grocer.

That was before I found this link…

Self-service checkout sucks.

Meet the current bane of my existence.

Canadian Tire has had these self-service checkout stations for a while now, but I was somewhat taken aback last week to find that my local supermarket had decided to replace half of the staffed checkout counters with these DIY disasters…