September 11, 2008
The Green Party seems to be using media and technology well so far in this campaign. I was surprised to see how quickly and effectively they were able to mobilize Canadians to help them secure a spot in the public...
July 14, 2008
It's getting more and more difficult to differentiate between the different types of spam. Just glancing at the last part of subject line, it looked like porn spam.
May 14, 2008
After several months of development, I’m proud to announce that the Syllogistic Software team has completed its latest product – the Learn PHP Tutorial Video, found at http://www.LearnPHPTutorial.com/ “That’s great,”...
April 30, 2008
SPAM email. Everyone hates it. Company and individuals alike have built various systems for dealing with it, but from what I hear, most solutions are sub-optimal. I currently receive about 365 spam emails per day.
January 13, 2008
I recently came across this article from July in the Financial Post stating that RIM "... blasted Canadian cellphone companies ...
September 13, 2007
For the longest time, Google Maps' super-high-resolution images were only available in large city areas, like New York, Toronto, etc. I noticed recently, however, that Kitchener-Waterloo has it now.
July 26, 2007
Update: New 2010 numbers can be found here. The other day, I was wondering to myself, "What are the most popular web frameworks right now?" Finding accurate numbers is actually pretty hard, so I decided to go to the...
May 3, 2007
I called Fido today to ask about data plans. The standard rate is 5 cents / KB = $51.20 / MB . To give you an idea, at mobile speeds (about twice the speed of a modem) you can download about 50 MB / hour.
April 9, 2007
Tom Purves has created a nice graph illustrating what I've suspected for a long time -- that Canada's wireless oligopolies are pricing services way out of line with what a competitive market would.