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Rogers: All Your Cable Are Belong To Us
I thought that Rogers had made it difficult to switch Internet service providers before. As it turns out, they were just getting warmed up. Saturday was my cancellation date with Rogers. Why I should owe 30 days notice to a corporation is anyone’s guess, but the Rogers service agreement is a wishlist come true that…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13
Five days into calorie counting + exercise plan. Lost 6 pounds. Betting this will slow down a lot as I go, but an encouraging first week. R.I.P. Heavy D., died of pneumonia? aged 44. | Watch D. & The Boyz – Now That We Found Love (ft. Aaron Hall) – YouTube http://t.co/AXfizLQW @nextlibris I’m down…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-06
5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think | Cracked http://t.co/H4Uugtin Purolator always manages to hand-delivery me packages, yet Canada Post Xpresspost couldn’t successfully deliver a “Oops! Missed you!” card. Thankfully, Canada Post delivers its emails better than its package notice cards. Bought marshmallow cocoa at Shoppers. Hate mallows, but it was…
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Rogers: If We Can’t Have You, No-One Can
A provocative and arguably unfair title, I know, but after the evening I had it makes me wonder what it takes to leave one provider for another. I arrived home tonight to both a voicemail and an e-mail from TekSavvy. The e-mail is titled “Rejected Cable Order: Attention Required”. I shook my head. I paid…
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Goodbye Rogers, Hello TekSavvy
About a week ago I decided I was finally tired of paying for bandwidth penalties from Rogers that were as expensive as buying a second monthly subscription. I called their customer service, and later, their retention department. They wouldn’t match the bandwidth (300 GB/month) of even Teksavvy’s cheapest cable Internet plan, nor would they match…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-30
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Three Dog Night (1), Mötley Crüe (1) & Bootsauce (1) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR Musicians shouldn’t write cookbooks. They should market something they’re intimately familiar with, like their own brand of booze. It’s not that I don’t like shaking hands, it’s just that I’ve noticed how often men skip washing. Or rinse…
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KDE help: Kubuntu Oneiric Won’t Shut Down Anymore?
I’m really loving Kubuntu 11.10. As usual, I upgraded during the beta phase to avoid the slow downloads after the official release. It was a flawless upgrade: the best I can remember. I even did it using the wireless connection, with no significant hiccups… except this one I hardly noticed. I rarely need to reboot…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-23
A great, if underutilized domain: http://t.co/uUfjBOP4 My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Supertramp (1), The Hives (1) & Audioslave (1) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR Kurt would kill himself, if he weren’t already dead. RT @corey_nagle: Nirvana on the classic rock station… “Anger management issues?” Nah. RT @ExploreMusic: Tragic story: “Bassist puts guitarist in coma” -AM http://t.co/KuQ60UyH @nrepin I…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16
My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Electric Light Orchestra (46), The Beatles (4) & Weezer (3) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh writes of dying on Twitter, two weeks before death – The Washington Post http://t.co/ALWhIo5o What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs http://t.co/BlaQqmoA Kevin James in a talking animal movie? How could…