Alterna has updated their online banking
Fair is fair. I trash them when they’re bugging me, I should praise them when they do good. A while back I posted about how Alterna’s online banking made me waste a lot of time at tax time, when it could be really helpful.
Now bitten, not shy: adieu ma.gnolia, re-bonjour delicious
In my own defence I will say, “how could I have known?” Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking site, has had a catastrophic data loss – both production and backups gone, dead and buried. And the owner is (understandably) throwing in the towel on the whole business.
Labourtech: how I spent my weekend
Whew. That’s a relief. I’m sitting on a plane on my way back to Ottawa after spending the weekend at the Labourtech conference in Toronto.
All those clever forwards go unread
Imagine that. Slate has an article foretelling the death of email as all those AIM-addicted teens and tweens start growing up and into positions of power and responsibility. They say that like it’s a bad thing, but interesting read nonetheless.
Does Powerpoint use lead to stupidity…
Or is it the other way around? A New York Times article blames Powerpoint for making people stupid.
Got more than 100 web pages?
If so, you may want to consider a content management system
How unions can keep from eating e-dust
Those of us who were pitching web sites to our respective union higher-ups three or four years ago probably stare sleeplessly at the ceiling with alarming regularity, wondering what we’ve gotten ourselves into now that many of us have actually got what we wanted.
Why I’d support an email tax
No, there is no such thing on the order paper in Canada, the US or even the so-called People’s Republic of China. But really, someone needs to instigate some sort of serious disincentive to e-mail. This is a rant about why.
