Posts Tagged With "email"
opinions & venting, technology »
After years of carefully and meticulously educating the public NOT to click on every wild and crazy link that appears in your email inbox, particularly if it comes from someone claiming to be your bank, occasionally someone REALLY screws up and sends …
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books & reading, fatherhood, opinions & venting, skepdad »
I’ll avoid this becoming a commentary on the anti-intellectual nature of our society, but I wanted to make it known that I was deeply disappointed to get an email from Indigo.Chapters (the bookstore) providing me with suggestions for books that are “great …
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critters, meta & methods »
Funny. I was sitting on the train, holding my phone, and an email alert appeared on the screen. Some website I had signed up to years back, a social network for dogs (and their owners, presumably) had sent me a birthday …
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far & flung, pop-culture »
“The Government of Canada is hosting a nationwide consultation on copyright modernization.” I spent a half and hour composing a (somewhat piecemeal, now that I re-read it) letter to the consultation process. I encourage everyone to add their two-cents, either …
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gamer, meta & methods, money & spending, technology »
I’ve been active in this little negotiation game for the last week or so. No, there’s no link. It’s a new game I’ve discovered wherein you blindly spend small bits of real money — $6 here, $10 there — to lease …
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gamer, meta & methods, opinions & venting »
For the second time this week I received an email from my hosting provider that I’d been hacked. The latest, this morning, involved someone using the NetRisk game script to somehow upload a few files to run their own, personal phishing …
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city & culture, money & spending, scatter, watching & listening »
My baby sister is taking my place as volunteer extraordinaire and is basically Queen Organizer for the Relay For Life in Red Deer this year. How can you not respect that? I put my money where my my mouth is …
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travel & holidays »
The public library in Oxford has a 15 minute terminal for checking email, etc. Karin is rummaging through the guide books here, and I thought I’d check in to say it’s been a couple of busy days, culminating to now with a …
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gamer, meta & methods »
Two things…
a) I upgraded WordPress. This was a fairly significant upgrade, a whole decimal point in fact. If you happen to notice anything odd or broken please let me know. The blog itself should be pretty much the same, but …