Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Canada scolded to get serious about climate change. Canada responds, "Or what? It'll start warming up? Yeah, we'll get right on that".

Britain's Foreign Office gives English soccer fans advice on how to find more beer in Germany. Finally, a government agency doing something productive.

Could aliens be our ancestors? A growing number of nutjobs think so.

Dog who collected more than 3,000 balls at golf course rewarded with lifetime membership. Your dog can find two balls anytime he wants but shuns the spotlight.

It's almost worth the drive to Venezuela for $0.14/gallon gasoline.

Top 50 films adapted from books. In no particular order, so voting enabled.

If you are a "cougar" (older lady looking to bag young guys), your days are numbered.

Fifty-nine things a man should never do after 30.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Friday, April 14, 2006

Happy Easter Friday everyone!

It's 9:00am and I am off to Toronto, everyone have a GREAT weekend

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Rebels target monkey-eating blowpipe-armed naked nomads.

The murders in Canada have been in the news, but not the fact that the Ontario Provincial Police use VW Bugs.

Discover the missing link between two vices as Ben and Jerry's release an ice cream that tastes like a cream stout beer. Damn you, Ben and Jerry's.

The coolest treehouse you'll see today.

Outsourcing the Drive-Through

The New York Times today takes a look inside the world of minimum-wage order takers and the picture isn't pretty (for the order takers, I mean; for the company, it seems to work great). Basically, the experience of working as a long-distance listener is a lot like working in a call center anywhere: low pay, electronic monitoring, and row after row of cubicles. The upside is that you don't need to empty the grease traps the end of your shift, a job that (and I speak from experience) will make you grateful for your current employment, whatever it is.

The system is currently a trial project that serves 40 McDonald's in the US (including Hawaii). When a customer rolls up to the order board, their conversation is actually routed across the Internet to someone working in a California call center. Call center employees are specifically trained to be fast, polite, and to upsell—or, as Joseph Fleischer of Call Center Magazine describes it, "advising the customer on getting more out of the product." The employee then enters the order into a computer, which routes it back over the Internet to the local McDonald's, which assembles the requested items.

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Sunday, April 09, 2006

Forest feces...err, FACES!

Saturday, April 01, 2006

April is here and my April 2006 photo page has started with Sarah's Birthday party at the Splash pool.

10 Best Internet Spoofs

"It must be true. I read it on the internet." Au contraire, mon frere. Internet hoaxes have been around for as long as the internet itself, and we never run out of people willing to fall for them.

Some are so clever that it's easy to be taken in. Others are so patently ridiculous that you should probably slash your wrists for falling so easily. Here are 10 of the best.

Happy April Fool's Day!

Don't forget to turn you clocks ahead one hour tonight!


I think this guy only drives white cars!