Canadians are robbed blind by the high cost of the things they pay for. We pay more for food, alcohol, gasoline, clothing, and telecommunications than many other countries, especially the United States. This is one of my biggest peeves about Canada – maybe we’re just too nice, that we just take what they give us without a fight.

I for one, though, will not take internet metering lying down.

The CRTC just decided to let your Internet Service Provider put a meter on your Internet.

Bell Canada and other big telecom companies can now freely impose usage-based billing on independent Internet Service Providers (indie ISPs) and regular consumers. Big Telecom companies are obviously trying to gouge consumers, control the Internet market, and ensure that consumers continue to subscribe to their television services.

This means we’re looking at a future where ISPs will charge per byte, the way they do with smart phones. If we allow this to happen Canadians will have no choice but to pay more for less Internet.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO STOP INTERNET METERING

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My last official day of classes was Thursday, April 10th and even though it feels great to be done it’s still really sad that I won’t see all my friends every day anymore. But we’re all going into the industry so I’m sure it won’t be too much of a hardship.

We have our industry night on April 30th so that will be cool – if you’d like to come or know more check out the website HERE.

So the job hunt is officially ON. There are a few places I’m really hoping for, for at least the opportunity of an interview, if nothing else – one being Raincity Studios… but let’s not get our hopes up shall we? Until I get a job in the industry though I’ll be working full time at McDonald’s and doing some freelance work on the side. So if anyone has any web work they need done feel free to fill out my Request for Services form.

Everybody cross your fingers for me on that permanent job in the industry – would be awesome to move on from McDonald’s and follow my dreams sooner rather than later. Thanks guys!

Peace.

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The latest Wordpress upgrade was released last weekend -all the waiting… and it’s here. From what I’ve seen so far it’s pretty slick. The new design is nice and everything still seems to work great, and Wordpress has also redesigned their entire website to mirror the new back-end of the 2.5 upgrade. There are only a couple problems I’ve encountered so far – 24hrs into my upgrade.

I have a plug-in I’m using for my forms called cforms and everything seems to still be working fine except the button to insert your forms into pages is no longer in the editor. This is not a 2.5 problem more likely an upgrade problem for cforms – but a problem still nonetheless.

The second problem I’ve encountered is that of adding images to posts and pages. When adding media it gives you an option to either type in the url or browse your computer and add it to your uploads. Whenever I try uploading this way it says there is an error and although it says there is one image in my gallery, only the error shows up – no images. However if you upload the image through your ftp client into your uploads folder and give the url it works fine that way. I’ve also found with the images that I cannot go to Manage Uploads and ‘manage’ anything because I cannot view any images and I get another error.

I think the error I’ve been getting is slightly different than others I have found people talking about in the Wordpress forums however if you are having a similar problem I suggest checking out Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s blog as she seems to have found a solution to the problem she was having with the media uploader.

On a side note tomorrow I’ll be attending the Massive Technology Show in Vancouver for a few hours. It should be interesting and an excellent opportunity to meet some new people. I’ll be posting about it later in the week. Stay tuned.

Peace.

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So on Monday night(the 27th) I attended the 2nd Vancouver Facebook Developer Garage and I was actually very impressed. Nobody presented any lame apps like the Zombies or What Color Are You? that are completely useless. All of the 11 applications presented had some sort of useful purpose to them and were developed very well. The presentations given were as follows:

My favourite presentation was that of “These Are My Kids”. It seemed as though it was very well developed and that they had put a lot of thought into the entire idea. I suggest you check it out and if you’re a parent, add it once it’s released, because it looks to be very useful. As for an application I would add myself I’d probably choose the”Mixx Maker”, which is an application which allows you to make your own mixes or playlists and allows your friends to add to them as well. I’d also probably use “I’m Reading” and “Eat-A-Rama” just because they’re cool and I definitely probably use them on a regular basis. All in all it was a great night. Lot’s of good developing going on and all for a good cause – we’d like to think anyway. If I remember more that I’d like to bring up later then I’ll blog about it again. But that’s all for now. Have a sweet day/evening. Drive safe in all that snow here in the lower mainland!

Rebekah Out.

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So it seems Facebook is the way of the future. Anyone who wants to try and be their competition (if they weren’t to begin with – like MySpace) then I commend them for their bravery. But alas, I hope the competition is prepared to be shot down. I myself have not created a facebook application yet. Note that word yet. Although I’m not a big fan of facebook applications as they clutter up the profile and such I do think that it is a great learning experience and an awesome thing to include in a portfolio. I mean come on, think about it… you go to apply for some sort of web job and you say “yeah I also created a couple facebook applications” that makes you instantly cool and jump starts your interviewers interest in you – because it is so popular and so “in” right now. Although my facebook application development is still in the “yet” stage I plan on attending the Vancouver Facebook Garage to expand my knowledge about the back-end part of this uber-popular social networking extravaganza. And best of all it’s FREE. Do I have your attention yet? I said… FREE!!! So get outta the house and learn something new – attend the Vancouver Facebook Garage. I’ll blog about it after I attend of course. But still, experience it first hand! For more information you can go to their Wiki or check out the Facebook event page. And yes, in case you were wondering, I DO have a facebook profile – and it’s very cluttered with applications right now, that would make sense hm? Hope to see a great turnout for this event! It should be tons of fun and lots of good learnin’!

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