A few months ago, we needed more desks for our office, so I figured I’d order them from the Ikea website. Easy to do, except that the Ikea.ca store doesn’t work with US credit cards, and our corporate card is a US card. So I bite my tongue about the craziness of e-commerce in Canada, [...]
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Visite au Québec visit
(The title is a a cute translating trick I picked up in a Tim Horton’s) La semaine dernière, j’ai eu le plaisir de faire une présentation sur Thunderbird à la CLLAP (Version PDF, version Slideshare)– la conference sur les logiciels libres et les administrations publiques. Last week, I had the pleasure of giving a talk [...]
Theft
Jane got robbed on her train ride back from ETech. That brings to mind my experience with a vancouver thief, which, it turns out, did not end there, but I never updated this pseudo-historical record of random events. On closer inspection of the garage, we found that in addition to stealing two bikes, they’d left [...]
You know you're in Canada when…
You know your’re in Canada when the email newsletter from the grade school says: LAST CHANCE To Sign-up for CURLING Speaking of which, has everyone seen the latest sports highlight newsreel? It’s quite charming. One of the best curling shot in history.
You know you’re in Canada when…
You know your’re in Canada when the email newsletter from the grade school says: LAST CHANCE To Sign-up for CURLING Speaking of which, has everyone seen the latest sports highlight newsreel? It’s quite charming. One of the best curling shot in history.
