07.26.08
Posted in Your Rights Online at 8:32 pm by paul
So I’ve switched my Yahoo! account around a couple times now, telling that I lived in the US or Canada at the times that I did. On this move to the US, I never bothered to switch it back, since I use Yahoo! less and less in anticipation of some sort of deal between them and the Great Satan.
I’m actually very curious what type of content would be available in Canada and not the United States. I might be alone in this, because a Google or Yahoo search for the dialog contents both return no results.
Aside from that, the dialog pretty much fails to live up to the term “dialog”. Traditionally, a dialog box gives you enough information to make some sort of informed decision: “Really delete all your files forever? Y/N”.
This dialog offers no context. What do they mean by “available?” Do they mean “among the many things we have partnership deals for and therefore promote?” or “too terribly sensitive for American eyes?” or perhaps more likely, “content we do not have redistribution rights for in the United States?” In this latter case, perhaps better phrasing would be “… any content Yahoo! does not have rights to in this country”. Their phrasing seems desinged to maximise censorship paranoia.
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07.20.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:07 pm by paul
Alta Plaza
After a lot of false starts, and with absolutely no help from the man known as “Gavin“, I’ve procured a place to live for the month of August. And with 10 days to spare!
Pacific Heights is a far swankier part of town than I would ever ordinarily live in. In fact, the rent represents fully 50% of my take-home pay, but it’s doable for 1 month. It’s south facing and has what we call “partial views,” meaning there would be a view if there wasn’t some pesky building in the way. It’s right across from Alta Plaza, which is nice, and there’s place to keep bikes downstairs as well.
W00t!
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07.11.08
Posted in offline at 9:07 pm by paul
Vital to making any purchase decision is anticipating how four cans of Green Giant Sweet Peas (hi Sweet Pea!) will look on your shelves.
I kid you not, this picture was included in the listing of a property with an asking price of $645,000. They could have at least thrown in a can of tomato soup … just so the unhip amongst us would get the reference.
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07.03.08
Posted in offline at 8:07 pm by paul
I am so behind the times that I have only just now heard, for the first time, the following sentence:
“Seek medical help if you experience an erection lasting longer than four hours.”
Oh the dangers of channel surfing!
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