January 22nd, 2025

Not that long ago, we were charged by the call and by the minute .  Data was restricted and limited to specific geographic areas with roaming surcharges anywhere else.  Today we have streaming and communication services that would have been witchcraft 200 years ago.  Good News! but it's not all good news.  

  daPane 100 Years 

Today, if you get a call or text message on your $1500 smartphone and you do not recognise the number?  Do you answer the call?   If you get a email, from a company you do not know telling you to contact them/someone  because of ROGERS\SHAW,  do you respond knowing that you have a DISPUTE with ROGERS\SHAW services?  If you receive a text from 777222 letting you know that there may be a problem with YOUR  service do you respond?  If you do, when they/someone asks for your surname and PIN, do you reply?  If they/someone say that you called them and without your PIN they can not help you.  What do you do?  Do you say:

Enough of this shit! and hang up! 

I worked in Woss, British Columbia in the 90s on Geographic Informations Systems, at a time when there were only three satellites overhead at any one time (today)and Novell 3.11 was about to be overwhelmed by Microsoft NT.  Pre-Google Maps.  In the late 90s I was able to return home to Campbell River, compared to the CANFOR corporation hive of Woss a mega-city of 32,000 worker-bees.   When I left, the Englewood Logging Division of the Canadian Forest Products (Forests Forever) was running the last train logging system in Canada. 

 Englewood was circling the drain and like it or not, you are too 

if you are reading this ...

the Mega-Crisis
is your problem to solve 

After 8 years of 60-80 hours-a-week system integration of multiple platforms, in 1997, I soon found  a management position in a local forest service equipment manufacturing company.   I upgraded their information system technology in preparation for a Weyerhaeuser boom that never arrived.  When they went into receivership I ended up working for 80% of my salary for two days a week.  So I started consulting, more than doubling my income.  And trained someone else to take my place while I went on a five-week vacation.

Part of the 1997 upgrade was to have Telus run fibre to a business, located on Duncan Bay Road, north of the town of Campbell River, pass the Weyerhaeuser Mill that closed in 2010.  I connected a adjacent business, cutting telecommunications costs by more than 50% while increasing performance from dial-up to fibre.  Everyone was more than happy.  However working as a consultant in retail,  Telus became the bane of my existence offering services not often would not work, supported by people who did not know what they were doing and it was my my job to fix it. 

ROGERS\SHAW or whoever-you-are, get fucked!  Abuse somebody else.

Some problems are NOT resolved, and linger until, despite the short-term business incentives, a tipping point occurs and change arrives

and the current problem transforms and crystallizes  into a new solution: theFLUX.CA