This is a cleaned-up version of what I sent to a major Canadian corporation's web team after trying to use their site.
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One thing that really sucks about some web sites, including yours, is the designers' wanton disregard for users' time. For example, I tried a simple thing …

Digg is, of course, a social networking site for rating blogs and other web resources. I just found a site that not only shows how to add a Digg button to one's blog, but applies to the particular blogging software I use, Pebble. Thanks to Patrick Melo for that blog hint!
Reply from Patrick Melo …

In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years.  IP is the Internet Protocol, the software that …

Somebody asked if a guyed TV tower is really safe. Well, two data points. One, I have a verbal opinion from Harold MacFarlane, of MacFarlane Electronics, who have been doing antennas since 1958, that it will, as long as it is guyed well, every 20 feet max. Second, driving around my area I see quite …

As many of you know, I've lived in the country north of Toronto for many years, and suffered from lack of connectivity - we're still on 56KB dial-up. This has always given us an interesting perspective on bloatware web sites; sites that send several tens of kilobytes of rubbish (JavaScript, search …