Schedule A

Boxee is Awesome* *Well, nearly awesome. Empowering our HDTV to be ultimate media hubs has been a hot topic lately with the announcement of Google TV. There are other players in the market like Apple TV and Kaleidescape. Boxee is an open source cum commercial venture design to make your TV awesome today. In my [...]

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Here we go, another fan boy blindly defending Apple while they are becoming the man by busting down the door of a poor journalist just trying to make a living. Not quite. Apple has been in the news lately for interesting iPhone development policies and getting very upset over a lost prototype, but that’s not [...]

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Back from a little unscheduled downtime. WordPress was giving an “Error establishing a database connection” message and I didn’t have time until today to figure out what was happening. That isn’t quite true, I did have time to check my wp-config.php and to test my username, password, and database name to make sure they were [...]

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A few years ago now, Guido van Rossum endorsed Django by saying it was his personal favorite. At the time I had read the docs once and kind of tried it, but something rubbed me the wrong way. There was just too much structure, which for whatever reason didn’t fit what I was trying to [...]

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Or why I dislike MasterCard® SecureCode™. My girlfriend and I had a simple goal, to pay too money much to watch 19+ showing of a movie in nice comfy seats. Cineplex has a new class of service called VIP, which is , well very European. You get to pick your seats, drink alcohol, and eat [...]

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My iPhone tethering story begins a few months ago when someone from Fido called me to ask me if I would be interested in a super convenient 3G USB modem to connect my laptop to the cellular network for a cost of about $30 a month. I asked him why would I do that if [...]

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Parts of the following post maybe considered illegal under some implementations of copyright law. After a fair amount of public pressure, the Canadian government is holding open consultations about copyright all over the country and online. There is a lot to be said on the topic copyright by people far more involved then myself. One [...]

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I have mentioned before that pull is better the push. So how do you deal with all the information you might want to know about. There is a lot of potential sources of information be it your friends blogs, a social bookmarking site, edited or not like slashdot or reddit, a news source like cbc.ca. [...]

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Further Update: The bill’s has been delayed. It would seem the voices on the internet have had some effect. Add your letter to the pile and effect change now. Update: Now is apparently the time to contact Minister Prentice about Bill C-60. Thanks Douglas. It has been reported [Search Engine, cbc.ca, michaelgeist] that a new [...]

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Pull is better than push. This fundamental piece of wisdom can be applied in many domains. Consider, for the purposes of this entry, education. We currently have a push system. Students (try) to learn what teacher teach. It could be a government curriculum or focusing on certain chapters more because the teacher likes to research [...]

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