RSS has been around for a while. For me, RSS feeds have been great in theory but rather useless in practice. I’ve always forgotten about them or hated the formatting. I’ve struggled off and on with a gaggle of readers in the past, convinced that they would provide an easy way for me to keep [...]
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The delicious irony of usage-based-billing
The telecom industry in Canada is essentially controlled by a handful of companies – namely Videotron, Bell and Rogers and their subsidiaries; others like Telus and Eastlink are trying desperately to get a slice. When I say control, I mean 96% market share between the 3 major companies. With the recent usage based billing fiasco [...]
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Amazing…but a little scary…
As a celebration of 2011, let’s look back at the dawn of the new millennium. Check out this graph from Stephanie Fox at io9.com. The tech developments are astounding, particularly in mobile technologies. On the other hand, the population developments are a little terrifying. 862 Million people in 10 years or 86 Million per year. [...]
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HTC Desire
A friend recently reminded me that a review-esque post on the HTC desire is long overdue. The phone was released in Canada on the 6th of August 2010 and I delayed about a month before picking one up. I wanted to wait until I had used the phone thoroughly until I wrote down my thoughts and verdicts. The purpose of this post isn’t to be extremely technical, nor is it really to compare it to other phones out there (with the exception of Windows Phone 7 OS vs. Android to explain why I decided to go with the latter). There are lots of technical, proclamatory reviews/overviews out there.
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