musings
Another reason I still like newspapers
It’s hard to include a free poster on a web site following a major event, like one heck of a gold medal hockey game.
Though, this is just the latest news event that provided a piece of art demonstrating the value of a physical product over collections of ones and zeros.
Barack Obama’s historic [...]
E-books, DRM and irony
I’ve never been a fan of Digital Rights Management. In general, the anti-piracy measure frustrates legitimate consumers (such as finding out music you PAID to download won’t play on the MP3 player of your choice) while pirates always find a way around it.
Today, all this took a deliciously ironic twist over Amazon’s Kindle E-book [...]
Windows 7 impressions
Ooooh, pretty. Look at how nice those fonts are…
Okay, but seriously, I’m probably a little late on writing this up, but on the other hand, I’ve been living with the Windows 7 beta for longer than a week now.
First things first: This sucker flies. I haven’t sat down with a stopwatch while it [...]
Xobni – a day late, a buck short for me
Xobni, a product I’ve been interested in for some time has finally been released to the public.
It’s a Microsoft Outlook extension that claims to find the “hidden social network” in your e-mails. It’s functions do look really cool. For example, when you click the profile of someone you e-mail regularly, it’ll show things like [...]
I think the spammers have finally invaded Facebook
Facebook is looking a little more like MySpace to me this week. In the past few days, I’ve been fending off “friend” requests from women in the U.S. I’ve never heard of. They also seem far more attractive than any woman that would be likely to want to randomly talk to me. So, Internet [...]
The New York Times missed the real digital sweatshops
I’m rather disappointed in this piece on the dangers of blogging in the New York Times.
Not for the same reasons as the legions of bloggers who’ve already denounced it, though. The piece has a strong lead, referring to blogs as the “digital-era sweatshop.”
Seeing that line filled me with glee, I thought that finally, someone is [...]
Adobe Photoshop Express: Booooooring
I’ve been waiting some time for Adobe to finally release their web-based version of Photoshop. Well, Photoshop Express is finally here and wow, what a disappointment.
The interface looks nifty but…there’s not much you can do with it. The crop tool is awkward to use and every other feature is horribly crippled. Google’s free to download [...]
Lament for a lost hour of sleep
*ring* *ring* *ring*
Officer: Major Crimes Unit, how can I help you?
Me: If I told you about a murder that was going to happen at 2 a.m. would you be able to do something about it?
Officer: Of course we would!
Me: Good…because I know about one…
Officer: Who may I ask is going to be murdered?
Me: AN HOUR [...]
Green Party of Canada: You’ve spammed me for the last time
In most areas, I have a tendency to support the underdogs.
Several years ago, that tendency led to me signing a petition to allow the Green Party of Canada to appear on the televised political debates.
I thought nothing of including my e-mail address on the petition but this turned out to be the big mistake.
It seems [...]
Eclipsed by the urban landscape
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Last night there was a beautiful lunar eclipse where the moon turned almost blood red.
Or so I heard.
My problem in getting to enjoy this phenomenon was two-fold. First [...]
