SteveX Compiled

This is good:

Google is getting into the energy game.  I wish them as much success there as they have with every other business they’ve entered.  But isn’t it ironic that they chose a non-Googleable name for the initiative? Searching for RE<C turns into a search for RE C, and the punctuation is ignored.

The Ottawa Citizen has an article entitled “Canadian Retailers Take a Hit”, which talks about bad retail sales numbers for this past quarter.  The gist of the article is that the economy is slumping and we need to fix it with an interest rate change. “Overall, the report suggests some noticeable weakness in consumer spending” […]

Now this is a cool video.  Space Mountain with the lights on.

A long time ago in a mall far away, I used to work in computer retail. One of the most profitable items we sold was printer cables. A parallel cable that sold for $79 would cost the store under $10. This dwarfed the profit on the printer. You’d think we as a consumer electronics buying […]

Jeff posted on The Sad State of Digital Software Distribution.  I think the path to fixing it is pretty clear. The root of the problem is that most mainstream software is sold at retail.  Nobody is willing to lose the retail channel.  So if you can’t beat em, join em. If Best Buy were made […]

An Ottawa Sun poll: Do you agree with the latest transit expert who says that Ottawa should continue to expand the bus rapid transit system rather than focus on light rail transit? 59% said they agree. I wonder if the number had been different if the question had included the fact that the transit expert […]

After talking to Apple for over 2 hours on the phone (most of that on hold trying to get to someone who could actually help me), I actually came away with a fix for the intermittent latency problem I’ve been having on my MacBook Pro since getting it. The problem was that about every 6 […]

Is this a new development?  I only just ran across this but this is a huge improvement to Google for me:  Google now considers some punctuation part of the word you’re searching for and will match only words similarly punctuated. This is significant for searches like C# and C++, which previously would have been truncated […]

If you’ve updated your MacBook to Leopard and are having wireless troubles, you’re not alone. If you’re not into reading the hundreds of messages those threads represent, the gist of it is that if you’re using a MacBook Pro and a non-Apple wireless router, your WiFi connection might randomly go away and there’s not much […]