Adobe’s Photoshop Express Means Giving Adobe Your Photos » Hockley Photography
Last night Adobe released a free, web-based photo editor called Photoshop Express (which despite it’s name really isn’t anything like Photoshop). I tried it out, it’s not a bad online editor, but based on a tip from someone else today I decided to look [...]
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Posted in Corporate Greed, Frustration, Hotel, Life, Slice of Life, Travel, USA, WTF?, tagged Cleveland, Dirt, Embassy Suites Hotels, Fungi, Hilton, Pubic Hair, Travel, Vent on January 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Lead Investigator David, HSI (Hotel Scene Investigator) reporting from room 1121 at Embassy Suites Hotels situated at 1701 East 12th Street in Cleveland Ohio. What has been found with little instrumentation leads this investigator to believe that very little cleaning has been done in the bathroom of suite 1121.
As you can witness with the first [...]
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Posted in American Politics, Books, Conservatism, Corporate Greed, Police State, tagged 2005, flood, Hurricane, Katrina, naomi klein, New Orleans, NOLA, Protest, Public Housing, The Shock Doctrine on December 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
New Orleans protest gets rough - CNN.com
The City Council vote is a critical moment in a protracted fight between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and residents, activists and preservationists.
HUD wants to demolish the buildings, most of them damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, so developers can take advantage of tax credits and [...]
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Posted in Corporate Greed, Critique, DVD, Entertainment, Montreal, Movies, Piracy, Pop Culture, tagged BILL C-59, cinema, guzzo, house of commons of canada, search, theater, torrent, Vincenzo Guzzo on December 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My favorite jackass Michael Corleone wannabe was on TV today… again. You guessed it, Vito… I mean Vincenzo Guzzo was on RDI flapping his gums about the bust in October, you know THE ONE guy that cost 1 million dollars in security upgrades to capture.
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Posted in Corporate Greed, Frustration, Life, Montreal, Slice of Life, WTF?, tagged Acropolis Pizzeria, Anjou, Apartments, Handicapped, Headway, Landlords, Launderette, Laundry, old, Slumlords, Supra on December 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I live in a low rent housing area, to help out someone close to me who was in deep shit and the rent is really cheap. That’s a story I won’t be sharing here. But the place isn’t as bad as it sounds. My apartment is really clean, the place is bug free and [...]
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Posted in Canada, Corporate Greed, Entertainment, Montreal, Movies, News, Piracy, tagged cinema, Globe and Mail, guzzo, National Post, search, theater, torrent, TQS, Vincenzo Guzzo on December 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Yes we are a bustling cesspool of movie pirates here in Canada, especially Montreal and my favourite jackass, Theatre owner Vincenzo Guzzo has finally caught one and made a big media hoopla about it or at least tried to.
“We walked in like a SWAT team. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Two guys went up one [...]
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Posted in American Politics, Conservatism, Corporate Greed, NBC, News, Police State, Politics, Television, Video, YouTube, tagged bush, Countdown, Disaster Capitalism, Keith Olbermann, Milton Friedman, naomi klein, no logo, The Shock Doctrine on November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Keith talks to Naomi Klein about her book The Shock Doctrine and how disaster capitalism has worked in Iraq, Katrina, and past military coups to push through extreme economic practices which privatize everything and gut social programs and government agencies against the will of the general populations of the countries in which the disasters occur
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