My birthday (Feb 2nd – Groundhogs day!) just passed… what was special about this birthday was Facebook…
I got something around 30 Happy Birthday wishes from (yes, yes, I know that’s not even a significant number on Facebook these days…) a list of ~480 friends (in other words, 6.25% of my listed Facebook friends)… interesting ratio… [...]

Remember the race to register all the domain names in the world? Remember how registering www.your_name.com was a big deal (still is) and lots of people did so in order to prevent so-called “identity theft”? Well, here is a very sneaky marketing tactic that Facebook could use to help accelerate its growth…
Facebook could basically start [...]

Testing can be annoying and boring… so, what if you could crowdsource your testing? i.e. pay people from across the world to test your software instead of hiring full time personnel to do it… I like the concept and I like it a lot… We might end up using a company called uTest that lets [...]

The other day, I stopped by the Zellers @ Billings Bridge in Ottawa, Canada… I was going to buy my usual Mach3 razor blades (I love them by the way), and then I saw that Zellers’ generic brand, Truly, had a version of its own (a virtually identical copy)… it was 1/2 the price! I [...]

Telus sent me a text message saying that they would be giving me free local calling on my birthday. For the first split second I was really happy. Then I remembered that my birthday was on a Saturday this year… because I already had unlimited calling on weekends, their “generous” offer wasn’t really all that [...]

Quick Update: I registered http://www.beUnreasonable.org as a domain name (it was the only beUnreasonable domain that was available)…
nothing has really changed, now there is a shorter address for the blog…
btw, if you are registering domains, make sure to use http://www.godaddy.com since you’ll probably be able to get the cheapest prices with these guys…
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This is the story that has been making the headlines in the past little while… Microsoft could acquire Yahoo for a deal that might become worth more than $50 billion once all the bidding is over. The reality is, that while the merger would be interesting, to say the least, a lot of companies out [...]