Seriously.. I remember seeing presentations on the mobile phone business and how ringtones are so ridiculously huge. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on these miniscule clips of existing songs (that the buyer has probably already paid for in another format). But that’s not news. What’s news to me is how much money Facebook is […]
Apple Canada used Purolator to ship out Leopard, and Purolator seems to be doing a bad job of it. I haven’t gotten mine yet, and there are various reports around the Web of people still waiting. Apple promised delivery on Friday (release day), and so shipped my copy overnight on Thursday. It should have been […]
Check this out: Your current bid: US $49.00 (Approximately C $47.40) Not only is buying on eBay generally a better value for most items than buying them new at retail, because items tend to sell for what they’re worth as determined by the marketplace (and an item that’s been used even for 10 minutes seems […]
I finally got Xbox #4, after #3 succumbed to the 3 rings of death. The box they sent me was manufactured September 2006, way before they started building hardware that actually solved this problem. Maybe I’ll get lucky with #5.
We drove down to Brantford this weekend to visit family, and on the way, listened to Stephen Colbert’s book, “I Am America (And So Can You!)”. If you’re considering reading this book I’d recommend the audiobook version. It’s narrated by Stephen Colbert himself, with some extra voices done by Jon Stewart and a few other […]
This is my first post from Adobe Contribute CS3. So far so good. If everything worked, there should be a clock just above this line. The time should be 1:49pm.
There’s a provincial election coming in Ontario this week, and with the election comes a referendum. I haven’t really paid much attention to the referendum until I heard an attack ad on the radio this week. I’m going to have to paraphrase, but the ad essentially said “You’re going to be asked to choose between […]
Is someone trying to kill the Playstation brand from the inside? I can’t think of any other reason Sony would keep making stupid move after stupid move. Some political battle inside the company, perhaps. Why else would they keep doing this to themselves? The latest boneheaded move: The new PS3 40gb model drops backwards compatibility […]
Some great news: Microsoft is releasing the source for the .NET Framework, similarly to what they did with MFC. It’s a reference license only – basically you’re just allowed to look at the code – but most times when you need to see the framework source it’s because you just want to see how they’re […]
This seems like good news to me. Mapping data is becoming incredibly important, and Nokia seems neutral enough that they won’t impede the incredible progress so many companies are making doing interesting things with maps. They’re not an Internet company, and they aren’t a serious GPS company, so there’s no reason for them to play […]