I keep seeing stories about this: Suleman — already a single mother with six young children — gave birth to the octuplets through in-vitro fertilization, fueling controversy. News of her collecting public assistance for some of her children also outraged many taxpayers. It seems like there’s always some nonsense story in the media that people […]
There’s a constant rumour on Facebook that the site is going to start charging users to use the site. And every time this rumour pops up, there are a bunch of groups started with names like “If Facebook becomes a paysite – I’m gone!”. This group currently has 425,868 members. That’s 425,868 people who don’t […]
Apologies to the majority of people who have no idea what this is about. class YourBrain { public: Â Â Â Â Â YourBrain(); Â Â Â Â Â virtual ~YourBrain(); Â Â Â Â Â Â YourBrain* Get() Â Â Â Â Â { Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â return this; Â Â Â Â Â } Â Â Â Â Â Â static YourBrain* Create() Â Â Â Â Â { Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â return new YourBrain(); Â Â Â Â Â } }; Â class YourBrainDerived : public YourBrain { […]
My Xbox 360 came with a 20gb hard drive, but it seems to have shrunk over time. Yes, I know the drive really only ever had about 13 gig of usable space, thanks to Microsoft taking up the rest of it for who-knows-what. But it’s worse than that. The Memory page of the dashboard shows […]
CIRA is the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. They just sent me a survey asking me for my opinions about them. Some of the questions on the survey were a bit strange. It sounds like they consider part of their mandate to be promoting the “.ca” registry. If you look at their site, it says in […]
You know what sucks? Revenue Recognition rules, and their application on software products. Here’s how it works. You spend $1000 making an app, and you sell it for $10. You sell it to 200 people, yielding revenue of $2000. What most companies do is declare that revenue, so it shows up on their balance sheet […]
I’m a Rogers Hi-Speed Internet customer. A few months ago, Rogers stopped returning failed DNS queries, and instead many DNS queries (but not all of them) redirect to *.rogers.com. Check this out: stevemac:~ stevex$ ping digg PING digg.rogers.com (8.15.7.107): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 8.15.7.107: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=82.954 ms ^C — digg.rogers.com ping statistics […]
There is an entry on the Australian bush fires on the Google LatLong blog, which links to a map of the fires. Looks like Google Maps, but right-click on it, and you see the usual Flash menu. This particular Google Maps page is built using Adobe Flex. How can I tell it’s built with Flex? […]
Most of the time when you hear about Occasionally Connected applications, it’s in the context of airplanes. These days, with cellular data available in most cities, for most people who need to be connected, the only time they’re not is when they’re on an airplane. We’re going on a cruise next month, my first time, […]
Ottawa’s 52-day-so-far transit strike is apparently over. Both sides have agreed to binding arbitration with no conditions, something they should have done a long time ago. I wrestle with whether I think unions are a good idea in some cases or not. Generally I don’t like them, but I have seen cases where they have […]