Rogers falls further and further behind

This is almost becoming farcical…

Google’s Froyo 2.2 OS for Android devices is making its way into the hands of customers, yet Rogers is still forcing their customers to use the now very-out-of-date 1.5 OS.

If you compare Roger’s handling of this to Kobo’s handling of some of their customer complaints it’s like night and day — complete opposites. Kobo has been very responsive, and has committed to a June 28 rollout of a firmware / OS upgrade to address their issues. That’s just two months after their initial rollout.

Kobo kerplunk…

We’ve got a few nice new Kobo ereaders in the family now but one of them only lasted 10 days…

After a fall off the couch (about a foot and a half) the screen seems to be gibbled. It’s not cracked, but the eink seems to be somewhat confused about whether it’s on or off — very similar to what would happen to an Etch-a-sketch when the display got all messed up.

UPDATE: June 7, 2010: All taken care of. The reader was replaced under warrantee.

MEC Hold Steady

I added a new bike to the collection today — an MEC Hold Steady.

This will be an interesting ride as I’ve never ridden with an internally-geared hub before.

Once I’ve put it through a few hundred kilometers I’ll write up a review and post it.

Amazing Grace

Farmhouse Corn and Double Smoked Bacon Chowder

This receipe was orginally in a newsletter from Heritage Park, but we’ve tweaked it a little bit. If you like corn, bacon or chowder, you’ll love this one. It makes about 4 litres.