Archive for October, 2003

Surveys, surveys, surveys

I don’t like surveys. There is some kind of survey going on right now with a whole bunch of retailers in my area where they will ask me what my postal code is. They don’t know why, they just say it’s some kind of “new survey”. From memory, I’ve encountered this at: Grand & Toy […]

Artful spammers

I’m used to getting a lot of spam. The vast majority of it gets filtered out. Just now one slipped by my filter and I was about to delete it, when I highlighted it and saw it in my mail client’s preview pane. Now, usually spammers will add all kinds of junk characters to the […]

Hey US Immigration: Canadians go to Canada.

CBC News: Canadian freed from Syrian jail set to arrive in Montreal: Here’s the short form of the story: Canadian citizen (of Syrian origin) visits Tunisia. Returns to Canada by way of New York (huge N. American air hub) US authorities suspect he might be a mamber of al-Qaeda. Evidence or reasons given: he knew […]

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