canspice.org is now on twitter

In part one of this saga I described how CIBC had sent me a text with a phone number to get them to call them, and how this is wrong. I just went through my spam folder and found this gem: Dear BradCavanagh, Please contact us as soon as possible at 1-866-454-4339 (in Canada & U.S.) or 416-785-1331…

The Have I Been Pwned website lets you check your email address against a large number of data breaches. If it’s in there, then your email address and probably some form of your password are out there to the public, all ready for nefarious use. And security researchers all say that you shouldn’t re-use passwords,…

Let’s face reality: the Green Party isn’t going to win the 2013 BC Election. They might win one or two seats. They’ll probably get 9-10% of the popular vote. And that is why I’m voting for the Green Party on Tuesday. I don’t like the first past the post elections we have in BC and…

After a pretty long hiatus, Bad Baby Names are back! To be honest, I got a little bored of all of the bad baby names that the Hawaii Tribune Herald kept serving up. You can only make so many jokes about too many Y’s or girls named Madison before they start getting stale. But this…

Have you seen Old Spice products lately? They’re going completely off the deep end with names that don’t seem to have any grounding in reality. In fact, they’re so crazy they’re nearly indistinguishable from indie band names, which naturally means it’s time for a new game of “Old Spice deodorant or Canadian indie band”! Ladyhawk…

The people of Hawaii County must be learning, because this week’s list of baby names is filled with awesome. Let’s get started! Kicking off the awesome streak is Falen. Now, I’m not quite sure how this is pronounced, but if it’s pronounced “failin’”, then this kid has an instant awesome nickname: “Can’t Be” Falen! Awesome!…