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{ Monthly Archives } September 2007

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 […]

2007 09 12 General
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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 […]

2007 09 07 Standards
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