Archive for December, 2007

The weather outside is frightful… or is it?

Canada, culture| 15 Comments »

We’ve just had a snow storm. It’s an east coast type of storm – indecisive, wringing its hands over whether it should snow, sleet or rain. As a result we get a charming mixture of watery slush, snow and ice. This morning the radio announcers trilled that up to 20 cms of snow fell in [...]

Slay the rip-off dragons of the Canadian cell phone industry

Canada, geeky things| 10 Comments »

This typist is delighted to see Canada waking up from the coma it has been in on the matter of rip-off cell phone pricing. The government is promising to open up the wireless industry to more competition in the hope this will stick a pin in the Bell-Rogers-Telus oligarchy, which has kept prices so ridiculously [...]