an interesting name for a new site: Hotwire. Nothing beats originality, that’s for sure! Evidently they passed “Overblown Marketing Writing 101” as well: “Hotwire also has the backing of a prominent $8 billion investment firm to quickly aggregate strategic partners in multiple categories.” Gotta love aggregating those strategic partners! Fun for the whole family. A little further down the main page indicates that this crap is put together by Scient, a buncha airlines and some VC I’ve never heard of before.
Archives for July 2000
A followup to the
observation over the weekend about Ottawa: I think it might just be me. I think I’m suspicious of overly clean, tidy, and orderly cities. And over-gentrification. To me, a city’s supposed to be a jumble. Ottawa doesn’t feel like a jumble anymore – it feels regulated within an inch of its life.
Monday morning starts
with a mini-rant. It’s past time that everyone who uses a browser-detect script to ensure that the right people get the right code figure out that they have to treat IE5/Mac separately. No, my browser doesn’t support VBScript, and all the sites that keep trying to throw it at me cause they just see IE are driving me pretty nuts.
I’m posting this
from Ottawa, where I came tonight for dinner with a friend. To anyone who’s lived here before – Ottawa is barely recognizeable, and that’s not entirely pleasant. It seems very glossy and insincere, and maybe even a bit mean, in that suburban way. At that, though, when I walked into the restaurant where we ate, I did bump into an old friend who I worked at summer camp with about 15 years ago. Which is such an “Ottawa” thing, at least for folks who grew up here. Later I went to the bar that the aforementioned friend owns (she’s a partner, I think, in the Manx) and one of the servers had gone to my high school.
Doh!
I was labouring under a mistaken assumption. Samoa is on this side of the International Dateline, not the other side. So it’s still today there.
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