Unclutterer reports that O'Reilly tech books has an ebook promotion for $4.99 per book you already own. This looks quite useful to me ( Read more... )

LJ lays off 20 some fraction of 28 employees- last day Friday, no severance ( Read more... )

It seems Pharma Plus is having a sale on Canadian postage: 10% off a book of ten regular 52-cent stamps. How odd is that? I've never heard of a sale on stamps.

I was suspicious, because Canada Post always raises rates in January, but it turns out the stamps are permanent, so they'll be good. I'm thinking maybe I should buy some more.

I googled ( Read more... )

If you happen to be in a region that has Daylight Time, this is the day to spring forward. (*)

* Unless, of course, you already did, in which case it isn't.

That is all, thank you. Now we bring on the dancing bears.

About 3 years ago I had the idea that google or a yellow pages company should automatically translate business phone-numbers into webpages.

yellowpages.ca has had the same idea, and I'm not even miffed they took my idea. The wrapper for my new phone-book describes their phone-number-to-webpage translation. It includes whatever graphical ad the ( Read more... )

In the circles we both run in, we hear from a lot of people who consider themselves good environmentalists; and those people who don't agree with them are, de facto, bad environmentalists. Which is a problem on a number of levels. I don't like evangelical movements, and I don't like bi-polar black/white thinking on topics that I see as many ( Read more... )