Exile From the Herd

About Mark Jeftovic

I live in Toronto, Canada with my wife and daughter, I'm the founder and president of easyDNS.com - the DNS hosting provider & domain name registrar, a card-carrying Libertarian and former Director to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).

In my copious spare time I blog here about doing business on the internet and play guitar in The Parkdale Hookers, an indie power-pop group who releases all of our music under a creative commons license.

I can be emailed at markjr@myprivacy.ca (requires verification)

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Wednesday, September 26. 2007

Screw you, you're just the customer, go to hell

It was one of the comedians off an old "Women of the Night" tape I used to have, after a particular zinger against an ex quipped "some of these I do just for me". Which probably applies to this entire category which I've just created: How to lose customers. I've had one of those mornings which leaves me simply astounded. How can half the businesses I have interacted with today survive let alone turn a profit?

In the macro objective Vulcan view of things, times must simply be too good right now. Too much easy money sloshing around the economy, people clamoring to buy things they don't need with money they don't have. A sense of entitlement prevails among many businesses, kind of like "Give me your money. Shut up. We're doing you a favor. Now get stuffed".

In today's case the overall winners:

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Tuesday, September 11. 2007

Don't forget to vote in the CIRA Board elections

I just finished voting in the Canadian Internet Registration Authority Board of Directors election. This year's election is the first under the new election process and reformed membership structure that was ushered in last year at the special member's meeting in Toronto.

I have mixed feelings about the new membership reform, having spent a good deal of my term on the Board working on it and finally seeing it get ratified by the membership shortly after the end of my stint. I found the re-authorization process of the membership confusing. If I found it confusing, having been in the belly of the beast so to speak, it must have been utterly unfathomable to a lot of casual .CA domain holders. I think 90% of .CA domain holders don't even really understand who CIRA is or why they consistantly get cryptic emails from them telling them to authorize this, confirm that, verify your id ("your papersss pleasss").

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Tuesday, September 4. 2007

iPhone unlocked on the Fido network using Turbo Sim card

I bought a turbo Sim card on the aftermarket (at a pretty inflated price), from PDAPlaza, it arrived pretty quickly.

I was going to wait for a software unlock but I broke down before the weekend and grabbed a couple turbo SIMs.

There are a lot of docs out there on what to do, I thought I'd post a quick summary of what you need to do to get iphone unlocked on a Canadian network like Fido or Rogers (I guess the point is this works on pretty well any GSM network)

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