Hamster in a wheel

I’m experimenting a bit with talkinator.  If you want to experiment with it, just keep in mind, it’s not private – it’s all about anonymity and simplicity – no need for registration, edit your profile, etc.

To embed a chat room, you paste an HTML snippet on your site.

Here’s an example, embedded in this post. Normally you’d put it somewhere on the sidebar maybe:

If you are using an RSS aggregator, the chat widget may not show up, depending on the HTML and Javascript capabilities of you aggregator.

It seems that the name of your chat room must be a single word.

And here’s a baby hippo:

http://www.greenexpander.com/2008/08/07/antares-newest-attraction-for-the-berlin-zoo/

That’s where Knut was born.  And Flocke as well…. why do they get all the cute baby animals?

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/474924

Recently, Bell and Telus decided to charge 15 cents for each incoming text message (unless you’re covered by a plan.)

After getting nagged by our industry minister, Bell and Telus have agreed to reverse charges from spam.  When you receive spam, you will need call your carrier, wait on hold for one hour and finally try to challenge those charges – this is disingenuous, who other than a gullible idiot would fail to see that?

The wireless spectrum auction was a wasted opportunity. SMS charges are high in Canada because of government interference, specifically foreign ownership restrictions.  You won’t fix this with more government interference.

Apparently, it is possible to use Blogger with your own domain name: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373

I’m seriously considering moving over because of the spam problem. With Blogger, you sign in with your google ID in order to add a comment.  With my site, it’s a scary CAPTCHA; moreover, when a new update of WordPress is available, I must upgrade because of security risks.

Everyone I know has a Google account, Blogger really benefits from being able to leverage these accounts.

There you go: spam, server administration and user accounts – three reasons to consider a move to Blogger.  Maybe they also have a fix for my writing impediments too… me fail English? mais c’est impossible 😛

“TV Dinner”

As mentioned in the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/469757

Of course, it won’t work since there are exceptions for “charities, political parties, pollsters and established business relationships.”  The latter is the biggest problem… do you think it’s restricted to direct business relationships?  Will it also allow “business partners” to call you repeatedly with automated dialers 50 times a day and when you finally pick up they don’t have an agent available for more than 10 seconds?  Will it allow the business parter of those business partners to call you?  When they break the rules, will there be consequences or will you have to go to trial to stop an offending telemarketer from calling you?

In any case, a telemarketer can just open a limited lilability corporation that breaks the rules; when the hammer is about to drop, they can close shop and create a new corporation.  And what about foreign companies using VOIP to call you for real cheap?

Visualize how people pronounce various sounds in English, German and Spanish.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

Cute sleepy puppy:

Cute fluffy Korean puppy:

Corgi puppy:

Two kittens playing:

Small cute kitten:

Wolf puppies: