by mattm on December 23, 2007
in Travel
For some reason I decided to visit Varadero Cuba instead of my beloved Punta Cana, D.R. All in all, I was not impressed. A lot of the issues I had can be broken down into distinct categories: Air Canada Vacations Weather Iberostar Varadero Myself being a whiney b&%ch First off, a pretty photo: Notice anything [...]
Just in case you don’t recognize me
Here is the scenario: Air Canada sells various “pass” products. These passes allow you to pre-pay for a number of trips. You generally get a choice between a “tango plus” pass, which takes seats out of a low-cost economy fare bucket and a “latitude pass” which takes seats out of a full fare economy bucket. [...]
by mattm on December 9, 2007
in Rants
Disclaimer: I think Dvorak is, generally, a professional troll…to quote some random on Slashdot. John C. Dvorak more or less wrote what I feel regarding the One Laptop Per Child program. Do African children need laptops, or do they need food? Well, perhaps they need both in the grand scheme of things but my sense [...]
[NOTE: see the first comment below, I added a script to get the auth_key for you.] Today I decided that I would like to backup my flickr account to my Mac. After a few attempts at using a Java based UI tool “FlickrBackup”, which had terrible network performance for some reason, I fell back to [...]