Welcome to Telus, where printing is a problem
Here are the instructions from Telus on how to print information about your airtime detail (among other things) when viewing your bill online.
How to print (Mac)
- Simultaneously click "Command", "Shift" and "4"
- Click and drag to select your desired area and release
- Open the document that will be created on your desktop and print the image.
And here it is, straight from the horse's mouth (and I even used their instructions!).
What this means, of course, is that I can't print multiple pages of airtime minutes without taking a screenshot of each page. It should also be mentioned that the records appear within an IFRAME, so it has its own scroll bar and I can't resize it. And of course, a page of records doesn't fit within the frame correctly...
Is it any wonder Canadians don't care for their cell phone companies and we're desperate for some real competition?
(Hey Telus, If you're going to make me print the screen, why not at least provide the option of viewing the frame in another window or tab while you're at it?)
How the media was useless to me in this election
The most depressing part of this election was how I could not get useful information about it from the media.
This is probably best illustrated by example. When listening to CBC the day after the Liberals announced their platform, I heard a report that told me Stéphane Dion unveiled it in Calgary and how it's a tough sell out west. They talked to some Liberal party supporter about the Liberal's chances to win a seat in Calgary. (The answer was "not good".)
Let's review: the Liberal's unveil their platform — the set of policies they will seek to enact if elected — and the report I get tells me absolutely nothing about the platform and focusses on its presentation.
Stories about the campaign itself, poll results and discussions about "battleground ridings" and what they meant to the parties were the most prominent stories I heard and read about during the campaign. The day of the election, all the reports I heard were about how good or bad the leader's campaigns were. Just to pick another example involving the Liberals, the analysis I heard yesterday on CBC was how Dion did not do a good job explaining the Green Shift.
Again, nothing about the Green Shift itself and how it might influence me were it to be enacted, but instead how Dion failed to sell it. In fact, I cannot recall a single report that told me much about any of the party's policies. (That said, the party's didn't exactly release their policies that quickly.)
But then again, politics isn't really about policy, is it?
Next election, I'll wait for the parties to release a platform and stay away from news about the election even more than I did this time around.