Until such time as I can find a viable (read: worthwhile) ad service to help offset the costs of the blog, I will no longer be subjecting readers to ads on the blog. After nearly 9 months of Google Adsense, I’ve managed $3.56. Since Google requires $100 in your account before they will pay out, [...]
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Jott Launches Local Canadian Numbers
February 13th, 2008 2 Comments
Messaging and “GTD-ish” service Jott has just launched new local numbers in many major cities in Canada. The service has gone from one local number in Toronto, to twenty nation-wide. Here is an excerpt from the email sent to Canadian Jott users today: In an effort to protect your privacy, most Canadian mobile providers have [...]
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Reminder: Take-Down your MySpace Account Tomorrow!
January 29th, 2008 2 Comments
Just a reminder that tomorrow is the official “Delete your MySpace Account Day”. If you have a MySpace account, and you don’t use it, cut down your Bacn and join in the movement. I’ve been thinking about deleting my Myspace account almost since the day I got it but always opted out of doing so [...]
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January 30th: International Delete Your MySpace Account Day
January 23rd, 2008 5 Comments
I’ve just been directed to a post over on Simon Owens’ site Bloggasm that January 30th is to be International “Delete Your MySpace Account Day“. As a MySpace member who only ever logs in to check on someone else’s profile about once a year, it just isn’t worth getting all the Bacn from MySpace. I [...]
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Warner Brothers Backs Blu-Ray
January 5th, 2008 No Comments
On Friday executives at Warner Brothers announced that they would be committing to support the Blu-Ray format for HD movies and would be ceasing production of movies in the HD-DVD format at the end of May, 2008. Though the battle is far from over with technology giants like Intel and Microsoft backing the Toshiba-led HD-DVD [...]
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