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I haven’t written a daily rant for a while, I have to get this off my head. TheStar.com reported that our cable, home phone and wiresless monopoly giant Rogers Communications Inc., is once again raising their internet (3-9% except the Extreme Plus plan) and cable fees (5% for basic cable), effective March 1st. In my opinion, this is a very bad move for Rogers specially after reporting a $138 million fourth-quarter loss, according to TheStars. They are already losing new customers in the last quarter, now they decided to raise fees, yet again and we, as customers are furious. Not only they are losing new customers, they are also losing their existing ones because there are other providers that provides similar services, if not better, for a much more reasonable price.

One such company is Primus, their bundle which includes home phone, calling features (Call Display, Voice Mail, & Visual Call Waiting plus), high speed internet and unlimited long distance between Canada and US, offers more than 30% of savings compare to Rogers or Bell. Unfortunately they do not provide cable services. I’m not trying to sell you anything and there is no affiliate links anywhere in the post but rather trying to point out how much premium Rogers and Bell are charging us.

I have a feeling that Rogers’ first quarter isn’t going to be too bright either after this raise. So basically we are now paying more for the same services, if not worse (and its pretty well known that their customer service is terrible). Although I understand a company should focus on making a profit, I still don’t think it makes sense to raise any fees during this global economic slump. They might be able to suck some money from us for a short period of time, once people discover there are cheaper alternatives, they will start to lose even more in the long run.

I received an email about intodit, a free flexible hosted WiKi service. I spent some time browsing around intodit and I found it easy to navigate through pages. The site combines social networking and wikipedia together where people with the same interests can join similar groups and discuss/contribute to similar topics. Another feature that I like is you can browse through different WiKi categories so you can quickly jump around different interests with just a few clicks.

Ok so its just a WiKi, you will probably ask why does it look and feel like a social networking site? Each pages’ theme can be customized with different background pictures, logos and font styles. Instead of the plain-o white background from wikipedia. You can also add videos/music clips, images and display them much like on Facebook and MySpace but in a drag and drop style. On the other hand wikipedia displays information mostly in a form of text with a few to no images.

The site looks like its pretty new, so there isn’t a lot of contents added yet. Hopefully in a few months or so, there will be more added to it!

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I actually forgot how I found this game, probably from reading one of the game forums I regularly visit. Molehill Empire is a fun, easy to learn and enjoyable free online web based game. It is similar to Harvest Moon where you play as a gardener, you plant seeds and wait for them to grow, each plant takes different amount of time to grow. You can unlock and buy different types of crops from the farm by leveling up, obviously by planting and harvesting. Higher level crops take longer to grow as well. One huge difference between Molehill Empire and Harvest Moon is that the latter is more time consuming because you have to literally walk to places like harvesting and buying new items. This is web based so everything is just a few clicks away.

Basically these are the things you have to do: