Catpaw - diary of an angry cat

Facebook has a big plate of eggs on its face after it came to light about their Beacon information collection. It has highlighted the current information gathering frenzy going on in the Internet.
It seems to be the vogue to collect streams of data and then claim it is part of a “technical checking process” as [...]

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I’ve been scooting through Canada Post and United States Postal Service web sites, looking at what cannot be mailed to various countries. I’ve come to a rather sad conclusion - I must lead a very sheltered life. While many of the items that are prohibited are downright comical, some give me pause. Examples:
“Photographic films, including [...]

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On the advice of a reader, I popped over to the US Postal Services site to peek at the list of no nos for mailing stuff. Blogger Roufa Tav Gosou & Mimi Lass were right! It looks like the Postal Service have experienced a few Monty Python moments of their own. The mind shutters at [...]

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I’m sitting at my desk, trying to get some work done. I’m also working on a king sized migraine. I’m very annoyed with 2 things -
- the damned migraine bottle is child proofed. That translates into an unopenable bottle. It’s hard enough opening the bottle without a migraine. It’s impossible to figure out when you’re [...]

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