I’ve been reading stories about hours and hours worth of waiting in line for H1N1 vaccine in Ottawa. Seems to me the problem of “how do we get a lot of people through a lineup” should be fairly well solved by now. There are some key principles that make this sort of wait less painful. […]
I understand some people don’t like Flash. That’s fine. But please stop using the “Punch the Monkey” ads from like TEN YEARS AGO as your example of why the web doesn’t need Flash. I was just listening to MacBreak Weekly episode 161 and they used that to justify that the web is just better off […]
Amazon has announced the Kindle is now available internationally! So if you live in Bolivia: We are excited to now ship Kindle to Bolivia. Same for lots of countries. Way to go, Bulgaria! But if you live in Canada: Unfortunately, we are currently unable to ship Kindles or offer Kindle content in Canada. We are […]
No, I’m not talking about a physics engine for Flash. Turns out if you call something Gravity, you run into a lot of search engine collision with this other force. Anyway, I just wanted to link to a post by Stacy Young on some tech they’re demoing at MAX next week, called Gravity. What’s significant […]
It’s my first real weekend in Brantford, and I went looking for something to do. In Ottawa, I’d check the Ottawa Events website, of course, but I wasn’t sure where to find what’s going on in Brantford. I asked Google and it’s first response was this Brantford Calendar of Events apparently managed by the City […]
I should have known, after buying and living in our old house on Meadowlands in Ottawa, not to buy another old house. And yet, here we are. We’ve been in the house 5 days now, and the sink just backed up in the basement, dumping quite a bit of water on the floor. Here’s what […]
Last week, we moved from Ottawa to Brantford, Ontario. Technically I guess it’s Brant, Ontario since we’re just outside the Brantford city limits, and this seems to be confusing about 50% of the companies we call to update our address. I used to think it was cool when a company cross-referenced your postal code with […]
Rogers has been calling me a lot lately. Twice in the last two days for the Rocket Stick, a USB wireless adapter that will let your laptop get on the Internet from anywhere. The iPhone 3G supports tethering, and Apple has been nice enough to enable tethering on all their data plans for no additional […]
If your Windows 7 Setup is hung or taking a long time at the “Transferring files, settings, and programs” step and you’re wondering what the heck it’s up to, here’s a way to find out. Press Shift-F10. This will open a console window. In the console window, type “taskmgr” and hit enter. This opens the […]
I spent part of the weekend installing Windows 7 on some computers at home, now that the RTM is available from MSDN. Overall it went very well. One computer is an HP Pavilion system I bought at Costco a few years ago, and of course didn’t come with drivers for a lot of the built-in […]