The last few weeks as I have been leaving my local Loblaws I have seen ads all over talking about Click & Collect. I don't know what this is, but in my usual apathetic fashion I ignore it and move on with my life. The last time I went grocery shopping I see a video while I'm waiting in line - my interest is piqued. "Can it really be that easy?" I ask myself with a moderate amount of glee. I love these sorts of "innovations" - shopping online is great - it's easy, comfortable, gives me time to think, and, best of all, I don't have to deal with random people (no offense random people, I'm sure you're very nice!). The website is set up a bit like Netflix with horizontal scrolling food options. Each "aisle" has its own page with categories within the aisle shown. Only a subset of each category is shown and you can delve deeper to see all the possibilities. You can also search for specific items instead of clicking th...
I have been lax this week, so this is a two week update. I finished Hatching Twitter as an audio book. It was very enjoyable. It seemed that the author took some liberties with how the characters would be feeling during certain events, but he stated that he had access to all the tweets, many e-mails, and a chance to interview most of the "main players" in the story. If you're at all interested in how Twitter came to be, I would recommend this book. Next on my reading list are In The Plex (the story of Google) and The Everything Store (the story of Amazon). I took my car into the shop only to discover that I needed to get new brake pads, rotors, a new caliper, flex-pipe (exhaust?), front struts, and front wheel barrings. It was time for my car to require some work I suppose as nothing major had been done in the last 6 odd years (and the car is close to 10 years old). I had the opportunity to go see ...