Dan’s Landing

Update: City councillor Sam Merulla lashes out at the elites for the lack of funding sent to infrastructure (PDF)

The weather wasn’t playing nice this weekend and many people found themselves under water with extensive flooding reported across Hamilton. Here’s some information you may want to make a note of if you were affected by the [...]

I was reading an email (in Romanian) from my mom today and happened to glance over to the Google ads on the right when this caught my eye:

Google ads in Romanian

It would seem Google is not only parsing emails for keywords but for key languages as well. The interesting part is that the email [...]

[Also posted at Boxed Geek]
The Torontoist reports that Rogers is preventing some customers from purchasing an iPhone. After the fiasco about the data plans offered with a new iPhone, you would think that Rogers would have learned its lesson.

Apparently not. According to the Torontoist article:

Due to a breathtakingly boneheaded policy created by the company’s National [...]

[Also posted at Boxed Geek]
Taking after the US Do Not Call Registry, Canada will have its own flavour (a Do Not Call List – DNCL) as of September 30, 2008. Bell Canada was granted a 5 year contract to operate the DNCL in December 2007.

Points of Interest

You can register any Canadian telephone number be it [...]

Rogers will be debuting the iPhone in Canada on July 11th. Unfortunately, in true Rogers style, they have decided to short change potential customers.

Click the button below, become informed, sign the petition and say no to Rogers.