Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: RANTING
20 Apr 2007Ian Holsman was standing in the bank, when he overheard a woman getting a bank draft to send to the Netherlands to claim her treasure. [here]
Avarice, it is thy failing.
Stupidity is pretty high on the list, too.
Tags: Nigerian scams, 419 scams, greed, avarice, stupidity
In: RANTING
15 Feb 2007James Governor of RedMonk covers the serious fine Nationwide just got in the UK. [HERE and original post HERE]
This post immediately left me with the feeling (and it’s an oogie feeling) that the country in which I reside is completely borked when it comes to data security.
Private companies would get slammed by leaking private information in every [...]
Citizens Bank Outage
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.
Some days, your bank needs to get smacked around.
This is one of those times.
What is going on?
I am ot sure why these happy discoveries have not made their way south of the border, but here in Canada, some of the Starbucks’ stores have drive-thru windows.
However, I can tell you that the one we had coffee at in Westbank, BC showed that the drive-thru folks got preference over the people in the [...]
In: Uncategorized
19 Apr 2006I read about the Jimi Wallet on 43 Folders today.
I immediately ordered 2: one for me and one for Samantha.
We have both pared ourselves down to the bare essentials already, and this is one more step in that direction. I can see it being especially useful when you are travelling, when all you really need [...]
In: RANTING
7 Feb 2006It should come as no surprise that I am a fan of “graphic novels”, known as “comic books” when I was coming of age. One of my favourites is the Dark Knight | Dark Knight Returns series.
In the Dark Knight Returns, the US is run by a cabal with a holographic presidential avatar as their [...]
Lifehacker has a great list of the airlines that offer WiFi. [here]
They also offer this quote:
BoeingÂ’s Connexion, the wifi service for airplanes, adds 600 to 800 pounds to a plane. With rising fuel costs and U.S. airlines struggling to stay afloat, the system hasnÂ’t yet been adopted on this side of the pond.
This is a [...]
In: smp
6 May 2005Dear Rick:
Read your post on the fun at Wells Fargo yesterday.
WF was my bank of choice when I was in California. And after a similar experience wiring money, you know what we resorted to when sending money home to Canada?
Bank draft and FedEx.
Goes to my point that US Banks are the last holdouts from the [...]
In: smp
26 Apr 2005Juniper just went nuts and made two really key purchases: Peribit Networks and Redline Networks. [here]
Redline is one of those really cool companies that helps companies balance their load, terminate their SSL traffic and intelligently compress content, all in a single appliance. We have a couple of these at work and the Operations team has [...]