Microsoft has absolutely no way to cancel recurring billing of your credit card on xbox.com. None. They tell you they do, multiple times, but then they just provide a link which provides another link, which provides another link until you end up at the place you started. They imply that at some point there will be a way for you to stop the recurring payments from coming off your credit card, but it is a lie.
Why? What did I ever do to you Google Buzz?
A party was held, for an operating system unlike all others. Except Vista, it’s actually a lot like that one.
It’s funny how I will spend dozens of hours researching a $200 computer upgrade, but when it comes to renew my car insurance I will just walk in and take whatever they hand to me. Up until now I have always gotten my collision, comprehensive and liability coverage from ICBC. Now I get it from Coast Capital.
Weddings are expensive!
I wanted the Zune HD quite badly. Unfortunately it isn’t coming to Canada anytime soon. I was excited to port Pizza Deliverator over to it. Rookie mistake Microsoft. Now a competing platform will have it, and you will regret shunning Canada!
Awhile back, on a completely different blog, I discussed the tendency to ridicule others code while simultaneously being self-conscious about our own. As is so often the case, Google has something very smart to say on the matter. Maybe not Google as a whole, but at least two guys who work for Google and were also two out of the three creators of Subversion.
Last.fm is the business in my personal opinion. If you like music a lot, and you find yourself having a hard time finding new stuff, I suggest you check it out.
What are the xmice? Basically they are utilities (one command line driven and one with a GUI) that allow you to activate Windows’ ability to let window focus follow the mouse cursor. This lets you do handy things like scroll background windows with your mousewheel, or enter text into them, without bringing them up in front of everything else.