Archive for the ‘consumerism’ Category

Dear FaceBook Users

Get the fuck over it.
No seriously, stop.
Do you need to hear it again?
Get the fuck over it.
If you’ve spent anytime on FaceBook over the past month you probably know what I’m talking about.  The big drama of the “New FaceBook”.  FaceBook had the audacity, the outrageous audacity I’m telling you, to change the look of [...]

For Breast Cancer

In my working, actually making some money life I raise money for breast cancer.  I was searching around CafePress to see if I could find some extra clothing to wear to different events.  I thought “Hey, win, win.  I can support an artist/small shop owner and help breast cancer.”
Type breast cancer in the search and [...]

Bell, Telus, I Hope You Get Screwed

And surprisingly, no, I don’t mean that in the tenderly making love to your partner kind of way.
I have to admit one of my best fantasies is all three of the major telecom companies going down is a fiery blaze.   The only thing these companies can do effectively is piss off their customers with their [...]

A Browser that Works Please

Now I consider myself a fairly tech savvy person.  I have been coding html (the basic code for websites) since grade school.  Back when adding images and some javascript that played endless, horrible sounding midi music files was pretty high tech shit.  I haven’t kept myself completely up to date but I generally know my [...]

Penzu

So I have been having fun with a little program called Penzu.
Basically it’s an online journal but instead of a world like LiveJournal, it’s primary purpose is to be a private journal. It has a sleek interface with few frills, very Web 2.0 they would say. It also has very few customization options, [...]