I’ll caveat this post. This is a stream of consciousness rant. Perhaps it contains some info you didn’t know though, maybe you will get some use from my math. The problem is, I realized today that I spend $50 each month for my wife and I to have internet access on our iPhones. Slow, unreliable, [...]
Category Archives: Callout
Better than … anything else they’ve done
November 24, 2009 – 1:59 pm
There is a lot of hate on for the new Aol. logos, and I don’t particularly like them either. This is not going to be a gushing fan post. There is something about them that has caught my eye though. Take a look at where they were most recently: This is a standard, tech-style kind [...]
Dear Expedia
October 2, 2009 – 7:12 pm
If you don’t believe I should pay for insurance, why is this a special deal? Why are you putting a deadline on how long my trip insurance is an unnecessary cost? This is an example of a great idea that has been poorly implemented. If Expedia were to say “We don’t believe you should have [...]
Selling logo design for the price of a coffee
September 23, 2009 – 12:47 pm
Isn’t the bigger issue that it costs $5 for a coffee? I kid, I kid. This is horrible. Bad istockphoto. I had a teacher in school once, a photography teacher, who said “never ever let someone have your work for free.” He was adamant about this. If you let someone have your work for free [...]
Why halfway is sometimes worse than nothing at all
September 21, 2009 – 9:59 am
When I moved from San Francisco to Toronto in October 2008, I had a perfectly good first generation iPhone that I didn’t think I needed to get rid of. Unfortunately, the only option I had was to SIM unlock it for use on the local network. This served me well for the last year, until [...]
