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How do you post photos to facebook by email?

One great feature about facebook is they allow you to post via email. Until recently, you could get your (*secret) personal publishing address at www.facebook.com/mobile. To the dissapointment of at least one person it’s no longer possible to get this address from the previously-cited page, nor is it even possible to get this address from [...]

What’s your Japanese name, b*tch!?

Posted in Facebook Social Networks Travel

Facebook is always full of little localization/location-sensitive tricks. I started to take notice a few years ago on a trip to Mexico when I was asked if I’d like to change my language to Spanish. At the time, it appeared that facebook used Geotargeting to figure out where in the world you were. They still [...]

A pig wearing lipstick … is still a …

Posted in Rants Technical

GotVMail, a telephony company that offers voicemail for business, rebranded as Grashopper in 2009. I hadn’t given them a single thought when I left them in 2006 and switched to VirtualPBX , … until I received an email from them on Friday. For the record, in 2005 and 2006, GotVMail couldn’t get their act together [...]

aSmallWorld, aBigWorld, Best Of All Worlds

Posted in Business Social Networks Technical

Some time ago, I received a message from Erik Wachtmeister, founder and CEO of A Small World. Interestingly, when I tried to connect with him on his own Social Network, the site denied me with an error message; “You cannot connect to this member, they are in ABIGWORLD.” According to Wikipedia, aBigWorld is a place [...]

Hong Kong International Airport Wifi Issue

Posted in China Hong Kong Travel

I frequently travel through Hong Kong and use it as a hub when visiting other Asian countries. One of the things that I like about Hong Kong International Airport is that they offer free WiFi and they also have a Caviar House & Prunier that I frequent during stopovers. Recently, while exiting the plane, I [...]

Does Facebook discriminate against Africans?

Posted in Facebook

I recently hired a new virtual assistant who resides in Kenya. He’s sharp, he gets my directives and is efficient. The hitch? Apparently facebook doesn’t really like him. On four (4) separate occasions this week, facebook temporarily locked us both out of my account. This has not only repeatedly disrupted my authorizations from other applications and social [...]

Vancouver City Council Off the Deep End?!

Posted in Business Canada Rants Travel Vancouver

Okay. We got bike lanes. We got chicken coops. Now, with Vancouver’s City Council’s help, organized labour can prevail over the evil ruling overlords. ‎”We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according [...]

Do I look fat in this dress?

Posted in Facebook

Apparently not, but facebook may discriminate against you if you’re too skinny. Well, if your photo is too skinny, that is. I recently encountered an issue with posting a photo from an app on my iPhone called IncrediBooth. When I sent the message to facebook’s email to posting system, the images simply disappeared. When I [...]

BC’s 90 Year Hangover

Posted in Business Canada Food Gastown Restaurant Vancouver Yaletown

June 15, 2011 is the 90th Anniversary of the repeal of prohibition in BC and the establishment of government control of the sale of liquor within the province. The BC prohibition commenced on October 1, 1917. It was soon judged a failure, resulting in law-abiding citizens becoming criminals for simply wanting to have a drink [...]

Facebook in Japan

Posted in Business Facebook Japan Travel

It’s interesting to travel and use facebook from foreign places. In China and Vietnam, for example, in most cases you’ll be blocked by the Government’s firewall and then you’ll be subjected to use a VPN or some other access technique to get onto facebook. In other places, facebook delivers localized tools or design. On a [...]