My Stream

Unpolished short posts, statuses, tweets, links, videos, and brief thoughts.

Posted by on 6 Dec, 2010 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://alexbowyer.posterous.com/the-november-project-observations-from-a-mont

experiences from a month without Facebook or Twitter

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On the decline of language…

Posted by on 12 Nov, 2010 in My Stream | 0 comments

 

via vimeo.com

An insightful Friday afternoon wordplay…

Credits to Ronnie Bruce for the animation and Taylor Mali for the poem.

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Just when you thought it was safe to go into the bathroom…

Posted by on 12 Nov, 2010 in My Stream | 0 comments

 

via youtube.com

This one did the rounds a while ago, but it still makes me laugh so I thought I’d share it.

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Who says America is the most unhealthy? This is how Canadians roll..

Posted by on 6 Nov, 2010 in My Stream | 0 comments

via youtube.com

Here is the so-called “Epic Sandwich”, including bacon, poutine, eggs, hot dogs (including their own rolls) and a whole lot of maple syrup.

Not sure I could stomach that… Too much even for my larger-than-average appetite!

Read more at the Montréal Gazette.

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I’m proud of the BBC

Posted by on 26 Oct, 2010 in My Stream | 0 comments

via youtube.com

Don’t let anyone tell you the BBC is not worth paying for. I’d gladly pay a licence fee even while I am out of the country.

Video by Mitch Benn – more of his music at http://www.mitchbenn.com/

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Amazon why dost thou forsake me?

Posted by on 5 Oct, 2010 in My Stream | 1 comment

This is ridiculous. I am an international citizen and regularly use international services in Canada, the US and the UK. But still the likes of Amazon, Audible and Apple thwart me.

I was recently given an amazon.co.uk gift voucher. There’s a book I need for my writing course, available on amazon.ca – but of course it won’t let me use the voucher. OK, fair enough. So then I think, I’ll buy something else with the voucher. But I don’t want to pay international postage.

The solution? Buy some Kindle books on my iPad. Perfect. digital transfer, no postage costs. I know it’s easy because I already bought a bunch from my same Amazon account.
I spend a few minutes picking out some books in the Kindle UK store. I click buy, and I get this unhelpful message:

Kindle

 

Oh I see, my Kindle “account” is marked as Canada. Fair enough, so I go in and change my country to United Kingdom. And try again…
But I still get the same message!Maybe it’s the credit card that’s the problem? So I change that to a UK credit card…
Makes no difference.

Maybe it’s my address? I change the address in the account to my parent’s address in the UK…
Same old message.

Maybe it’s because I’m connecting from Canada. I log in via a UK proxy (which I know works for other sites like BBC iPlayer)…
Still the same result.

So now what?

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