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I love projectors. I've loved them since I first used the old transparent LCD ones which you placed over a regular school-style projector. How could you not enjoy something which brought your games, im…
I while ago, I had to take a ferry from Vancouver Island to the mainland. As someone who lives on the island, I've had to make use of the ferries for over 6 years now. What was different about this voyage was a little trip down memory lane.
Many years ago, the BC Ferries terminal near to where I li…
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I was one of the early adopters of eBay. I used it extensively when it was still young, and prices were competitive. I recall winning a large sapphire for $70, a price which Canadian customs found so hard to a…
Slashdot has a story about how many high profile developers have begin moving away from the iPhone. I've warned of iPhone's problems before, been accused of being "jealous of Steve Jobs", and all sorts of other idiotic responses. Well, now all you Jobs-o-philes can be silent. I'm not alone in my dis…
Sorry for all of those who adhere to the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, there really are some real ways a company can squash their competition using underhanded tactics. "Anything goes" really doesn't work so well.
The "proof is in the pudding" ... Intel is facing a lawsuit in the USA (as th…
Having an undisputed king of a product generally isn't a good thing. Imagine if there was only Windows. What would be Microsoft's motivation to improve? Imagine if there was only Telus internet in BC. What would be their motivation to lower costs while increasing speed?
The list goes on. Competition…
It's no shock to anyone who knows me that I think Windows is horrible. I'm a true power-user - I push my computer as hard as I can, particularly since I'm a software developer. This typically means I'm running an IDE (such as NetBeans), SQL database server (such as PostgreSQL), and web application s…
In the now length legal battle between Apple and Psystar, there's been a fair bit of back and forth. I personally do feel that Apple's Mac OS X license does constitute product tying, but I'm hardly in a position to affect that decision.
However, Apple has really gone off the deep end now. As part of…
As anyone who's ever tried to search for torrents will know, it's a bit of swing-and-miss. You're typically stuck with trying to sift through links which are simply ads for pay services (as you would find using isohunt) or extremely slow searches (as you would find using the venerable piratebay).
So…
There are many guides out there on how to increase your blog traffic. The odd thing I discovered, however, is that using these techniques do not really seem to have much of an affect on your Google PageRank (something blogger services such as PayPerPost, SocialSpark and others use). After three mont…
I've decided today to split up my blog. It seems, but all normal convensions, that mixing all my thoughts into one place is counter-intuitive. It leads to a situation where someone is looking for tips on implementing XML-RPC under Ruby on Rails, and end up reading my thought on Pascal's Wager. Not r…
After 2 weeks, and a fair bit of the old "huh?" factor thrown in, my blog has finally been accepted by PayPerPost and SocialSpark. I still have to wonder at their blog review procedures, since the difference between my initial submission and my follow-on submission was purely changing the main page …
At a bit of wit's end at trying to fathom what blog ad agencies are using to apparently detect the age and content of my blog, I've had to jumble things up on my main page. With any luck, this won't be too convoluted, and will actually overcome the difficulties I've been experiencing of late.
I've c…
I must admit, I'm a little disappointed today. Last week I decided to investigate how to expose this blog more, and perhaps get higher readership. One site I came across recommended PayPerPost, which would also provide a means of earning a small amount on the side. I took the advise to heart, and we…
I came across this blog post today and it got me wondering ... how do I define the purpose of my blog? I basically just comment on anything I see/read/hear in my life. A little bit of technology, politics/social issues, humour, a fair bit of programming. It's also a place where I show my skills for …
This month marked the 40th birthday of the venerable operating system. You have to give kudos to any piece of software which lasts longer than a decade, much less one spanning 4 decades.
And how can one celebrate Unix without a little Microsoft bashing? Here's what bubbled in my mind at the news of …
I am becoming more and more disgusted with Apple. Read an article today about Apple trying to gag people who have suffered at the hands of defective Apple equipment.
Frankly, I don't care if this is common business practice or not. The fact of the matter is that Apple's culture of secrecy is startin…
I found out today that VMWare is going to buy out SpringSource. To be honest, I wasn't even aware that VMWare would be all that interested in a company which provides development and software management tools, but I guess since VMWare is already a player in the cloud computing buzz, they had to come…
Well, Apple had it coming. Apple has been wielding their control over the iPhone store and iTunes so anti-competitively that is was bound to raise the ire of US regulators.
Frankly, Apple deserves this. They've historically been one if the loudest voices crying foul of Microsoft's business practices…
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