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A while ago, I was asked if I could do a review of Wind Mobile a few months on. I feel like I’m now at the stage where I can talk with more confidence on the service.

For the record, I have two packages with Wind Mobile – the $45/month “Always Shout” (unlimited airtime, unlimited long-distance to Canada, unlimited text messages, voice mail, call waiting) along with the $35/month unlimited data/tethering plan. That’s a total of $80/month I pay.

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So things have been a little turbulent for me lately. For the last year or so, the company I work for enacted cost-cutting measures. These include:

• A permanent cut to my pay of $5000/year. There was also an additional 20% reduction in 2009 under a work-share program. I lived under the poverty line before they eliminated that 20% cut a few months ago.
• They artificially fluffed up my pay by under-taxing me for all of 2009. I didn’t find out until Revenue Canada required that I pay them $1400 this April. I was also under-taxed for the first half 2010, so I have to dock an additional 15% from my pay to make up for this year’s mismanagement.
• The company also recalled all of the employee’s advances without prior warning. I have to pay back $1650 to be split over the next 4 paycheques. They refuse to extend the payout over a greater period of time. So that’s $825 less a month that I’ll be making for the next two months. This shoots me back beneath the poverty line.

Despite these shitty measures, I’m actually doing quite well. One reason is that for the last month and a half, I’ve been spending my evenings/weekends at a second, seasonal job.

I also now have a boyfriend that lives with me, and that’s been really cutting down on costs – not to mention making me happier in all sorts of other ways. So in the end, I have a nice apartment, a wonderful boyfriend, and enough left over to make this movie.

I’m in good shape guys. All that’s left now is to make a kick ass movie!

The film now has an official site – http://www.botnetmovie.com/ . Right now it’s a description of the project and some links, but eventually it’ll house the screenshots, trailer, and a download link as well.

I was a wee bit bored this morning, so I created a telnet chat server. You can grab the source code for the telnet chat server here. It’s in Python 2.x.

Once you have it running, clients can connect in via port 24800. The default password is SPIROU.

Well, I’m satisfied with the script in its current form. You can download it from here if you want a peek. Feedback is welcome.

In other news, I’m calling the movie “Botnet” instead of “Rice Tea.” It’s not a terribly original name, but it conveys the subject matter better than a type of tea ever did. “Digital Losers”, as was suggested by someone would have been nice as a title, but I removed all references to that term in the film script to simplify the plot.