UPS Rip-Offs

I’ve written in this blog before about UPS and their brokerage fees. I just today had another example. I ordered something from the U.S. (knitting gadgets I haven’t found in stores in Canada) and the order was $US50. Works out to about $53 Canadian at current rates. The brokerage fee that UPS charged me to [...]

O’Reilly and WIT

O’Reilly is publishing a series of articles this month, all written by various women working in technology. For some reason they asked me to take part; I no idea what the criteria were. In fact I carefully didn’t ask who else was invited, so I’ll be as surprised as the rest of you to see [...]