Current Television Listings (broadcast in Montreal) Sweepstakes For You Get Paid to Read Email -- Join a bunch of programs at once! Free Phonecard with Preferred Customer Signup (TX, OR, WA addresses only) Free book: OpenVMS and Windows NT Integration for Dummies Free computer seminars posted on RedFlagDeals along with numerous others freebies

Loyalty Programmes

More stuff (mostly) for free. This is only a tiny snippet of what's out there. I sign up for anything and everything that is free, then I have more cards for my collection! :) (psst: Donations appreciated!)

• Frequent Flyer Programmes and their Websites
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Beefs and Boycotts

Some companies just rub me the wrong way. Only a written (SNAIL MAIL) apology addressing the problems below will remove your company from this list. Join my boycott of the following meanies:

• Onatoo Canada: In October 2000, Onatoo exhibited at Collectors International in Montreal and digitally photographed four of my duplicate cards for auction posting. I never received my pictures, and I have never been able to log in. Repeated emails have been ignored, and they do not provide alternate means of contact. A Planet Feedback comment was initiated in January, but can't be sent because Planet Feedback can't find a non-Internet way to contact this outfit.
• Oracle Corporation:
  • On January 12, 2000, I attended an Oracle seminar. Before it started, I was rudely grilled about who I work for (currently nobody) and told I had no business to be there. Being painfully shy, I had just made the effort of meeting someone new and talking to them about their work. After this person was so rude to me, my new acquaintance had nothing-more to say to me. Oracle's call center never informed me when I signed up that the unemployed were not welcome. Also, the seminar language was abruptly changed from English to French without notice. Since I was being roundly ignored, in mid-October I sent away a Planet Feedback comment. The eagerly awaited reply: Not our department. Gee, how much higher can you go than CEO?!?
    
  • In May and June 2001, I received telephone calls late at night from Oracle's Toronto call center. They claimed to be calling "businesses" and verifying information like who my CEO was. I explained repeatedly that they were calling a HOME and that "seeking employment" is NOT the name of my company, but it didn't sink in. When I hinted at the first incident to the second caller, he tried to apologize -- without even bothering to find out what the problem was. How can one apologize for something one has not been informed about?!?
• Linux Expo Canada and SkyEvents (promoter): This company refuses to sign up anyone to their events who isn't "professional" and doesn't have a fax. And their office is incredibly rude about it. Who says you can't be "professional" and be unemployed at the same time? Is it a crime to attend a (free?) trade show to enhance one's knowledge about a new and so-called exciting operating system and its applications? If I ever get another computer, it certainly won't be a Linux one.

Website(s) of the Moment

• Paul Lima Communications High quality scribblings on the Canadian computer and telecommunications industries.
• Bubble Wrap
• The Legends of Rosemary (the herb)
• Spoof of Air Miles (in Dutch)
• Teddy Bear Hugs
• Colorgenics Personality Tests
• Postal Experiments What silly stuff the U.S. Postal Service will -- and won't -- deliver.
• Weird Anniversary CalculatorFind out how many seconds old you are, and more.
• Random Website Generator

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