Archive for the 'annoyances' Category

Mar 14 2010

I’m Not Going to London

Published by Phillip under annoyances, consumer

Jenny and I thought about taking a trip to London, England, because Air Canada is offering a round-trip special of $418 per person. I knew there would be a few hidden additional fees, but this is ridiculous. Check out the breakdown:

$418 ticket price. Advertised ticket price for two: $832. $805 in hidden fees. Actual [...]

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Mar 05 2010

@#$%*! :)

Published by Phillip under annoyances

I had to use a smiley face emoticon in an email today to someone I did a job for over a month ago but hasn’t paid me yet (I didn’t want to seem pushy). A little piece of my soul withered and died.

2 responses so far

Feb 04 2010

I Don’t Like Sharing

Published by Phillip under annoyances

Does anyone know how to remove or disable these annoying pop-up “Share” buttons?

I’m using FireFox 3.5.7 with Vista.
A certain Greasemonkey script works on CBC.ca and a few other sites, but not all of them. Does anyone know how I can remove these annoyances from all sites?

3 responses so far

Jan 13 2010

We Love You Celine!

Published by Jody under annoyances

OMG I’m SO first in line.

(Note the category for this post above)

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Nov 22 2009

CBC Survey

I was asked to participate in a survey from Confirmit.com while reading this morning’s news at CBC.ca. I said yes and answered a series of questions about where I get most of my news: Radio, Internet, Television, Newspapers or Other. I get 90% of my news from CBC.ca or CBC Radio. I don’t watch TV [...]

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Nov 21 2008

Files with No Extension

What’s up with people sending files with no extension? At least once a week someone sends me a file without an extension. Sometimes I can fix it by adding an .rtf or .doc extension. Sometimes I can’t.
How do people manage to send files without extensions? How do they lose the file extension by sending [...]

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Mar 09 2008

An Hour Later

Published by Jody under annoyances, life

Daylight Savings Time kicked in last night; time went ahead one hour.

This has been a public service announcement.

3 responses so far

Jan 16 2008

Tim Hortons’ Cup Lids

Published by Jody under annoyances

Most portable hot drink cups have a pre-made hole in its cover or one you have to make by bending a flap. Tim Hortons‘ lids have the second type, which fail 50% of the time for me.
Two main problems with Tim Hortons’ cup lids:

Ripping the perforated plastic to the indicated line results in [...]

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