This morning I received an e-mail from the QEII Foundation regarding their Home Lottery, which I usually buy tickets on to help support their cause, as well, get a big friggin manson.

Now, I’m not a programmer, wait… yes I am, but is there something very wrong with this e-mail? It is addressed to Sheldon Pothier! So If I got his, who got mine? Anyone else out there get an e-mail from the lottery addressed to the wrong person?

To Mr. Bill Bean: Did anyone test this mail shot before sending it out? Apparently not.

Good thing no personal information was in this e-mail! Other than a buyer number…

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Who got my mail?

One of Diggnations biggest sponsors is in trouble with ICANN, for “Domain Name Abuse”…

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Just for fun I thought I’d go through the process of ordering a new iPhone on the Rogers site, just to see what this thing would really cost me if I decided to get one.

So in the first step I choose the 16GB White iPhone just because I heard the black shows smudges very easily and if I got the 8GB I knew I’d run out of space fast if I put some photos and most of my music collection on it. Cost: $299.99 + tax = $338.99

Next I picked the cheapest voice/data plan at $60.00 /month which gives you: 150 daytime minutes (like that would last a week), unlimited evenings and weekends (evenings start a 9PM! WTF! ya right, cmon Rogers, evenings do not start at 9PM), 400MB of data (ok that is 1 days worth), 75 text messages (ok, for me that is fine), visual voicemail (who cares), access to Rogers hotspots (does anywhere in Canada have this other than Toronto?), Bonus 3 months of unlimited local calling (to get you used to calling all the time so it will cost you more later, but I’ll take that.) etc…

So if you are like me and need your evenings to start at a more appropriate time, then you’ll want to add the $20 value pack that gives you: Call Display, Who Called, 10,000 Sent Text Messages, Caller Ring Trax™, 2,500 Call Forwarding Minutes, 6pm Early Evening Calling, Get the 1st Month FREE*

Cost “Monthly”: $60 + $20 + 6.95 + 0.93 = 87.88 + tax = 99.30

Summary:
Phone - $338.99
Plan (3yrs) - $99.30 x 36 = $3574.80
1 time activation = $10.00
TOTAL = $3923.79

Wait! But what about that special $30/month offer they have going on! Yes for $30/month you can get 6GB of data, but it is a DATA PLAN ONLY, you have to pay this on top of your $60/month!!! So now your monthly billing would be: $117.88 + tax or $133.20 and over 3 years is 4795.35!!!

While going through my Google Reader articles this morning I looked at the post from TUAW regarding the displeasure of Canadians against the Rogers iPhone data plans.

While viewing the summary I noticed the inline Google ad, which was for Blackberry! How perfect. Just great keywording by RIM, or placed on purpose? hmmmm…

Here’s a screenshot if you don’t believe me…

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Another article here…

So some of us on twitter have been throwing around the idea of a having a tech meetup for us and our dogs (non-dog owners are welcome too), something I like to call “pawTech”. Basically we would pick a date and time and meet at some dog friendly park around metro.

If you are interested in taking part, please fill out this little survey submit a comment indicating which days and times are best for you…

Note: I had to remove the survey because it was causing my site not to load.

UPDATE: June 13
First Meetup, Seaview Park, Sat. 14th @ 3PM (I’ll be in a Silver X-Trail with a Yellow Lab)

I can finally rent movies on my AppleTV here in Canada. $4.99 for new releases and $3.99 for older ones.

Once I rent and download my first movie I’ll update this post letting you all know how things went.

More info…

If the US Gov’t RIAA, have their way, pretty soon border guards will have the green light to take your music players, laptops etc., confiscate and/or destroy them as well as fine you because they think you are in possession of copyrighted material. WTF! I guess this also includes cell phones since most phones now play music.

Is this not a wonderful world we live in? Shouldn’t they be more concerned about terrorism then if I have the latest Madonna rip on my iPOD?

I can just see these border guards after a long day at work. “Hey honey I’m home… guess what? I got you that new iPhone you always wanted. What? There are already phone numbers in it? Geez, I wonder how they got there?”

Read this great article here on the whole story…

I’m not going to comment on this issue but rather I’m just posting about it to make more people aware of the story…

Microblogging/social messaging service Twitter has become the center of a new debate about online harassment and what services’ responsibilities are the protect their users. What started out as the fairly run-of-the-mill harassment of a female user has turned into a much larger controversy over terms of service, the definition of a community, and what protections the site might have under the law.
He said, she said

The sequence of events began like this: Ariel Waldman, now community manager for Twitter competitor Pownce (but was apparently not in this position when the issue began) became the subject of what she characterizes as harassing “tweets” (140-character messages sent to the service, usually broadcast to the public) last June containing her full name, e-mail address, and disturbing comments. At that time, she reported it to Twitter’s community manager, who subsequently removed the offending user’s updates.

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