Blogging from the Wii
Okay, I don’t think that I’m going to do this very often, but I just have to prove that I can. Tonight, I downloaded the Internet Channel to my Wii (500 Wii points = $5), and I have a fully-functional Opera browser. So here I am in WordPress, typing a blog post on my Wii. [...]
HD OTA experiments
An online conversation with a few friends last week got me thinking harder about something that’s been on my mind lately: is it possible to get rid of my Rogers cable subscription, and get TV signals the old-fashioned way: with an antenna? This is now referred to as “OTA” (over the air) for those in [...]
Latest email scam to watch for
I had seen a warning about this earlier today, but wouldn’t have fallen for it after even the briefest review: First of all, all the links (including the one to Microsoft and all the credit card companies) link to the same scammy web address, which you can see in the final "For security your Credit [...]
Searching for the perfect desktop search solution
Until recently, I’ve used the free version of X1 for desktop search. Although it can be very resource-intensive during indexing, I love how it indexes Outlook email across multiple PST files, and allows very flexible searching. Last week, I installed a network-attached drive for our shared home office, and that reminded me that the free [...]
Screwed 2.0
You know that a Web 2.0 company is likely in trouble when their new and improved monetization scheme is to nuke their free basic accounts without notice, holding their users’ data hostage pending a signup to a paid premium account. That’s exactly what happened today with Eventbrite, an event registration service that I’ve used in [...]
Twittering
Funniest tweet that I’ve seen in days: Pardon me sir. I didn’t mean to step on your Long Tail.
Online retailing to drop? I don’t think so
From an article today on Money Morning: More than a decade after Internet pioneer Amazon.com burst upon the scene and revolutionized online retailing, experts are projecting that Internet-based shopping is destined to fall out of favor. In the next five to 10 years, those who are already comfortable shopping online are likely to grow even [...]
Camping for beginners
Talking about *camps and unconferences on my business blog is starting to have some effect: yesterday, I received the following email thread that had gone between two conference organizers in my industry: You mentioned a technique for facilitating a discussion and I think you called it CAMP? I did a brief search on the web [...]
A social media convert
Damir, my other half, is a much more traditional engineer than I: he likes to ponder over new technology for a while, while I’m leaping about in it, shouting “c’mon in, the water’s great!” and trying not to get eaten by the sharks. When he does jump in, however, it’s with both feet. In the [...]
Where are all the TorCamp men?
Last night, we had the first Toronto Girl Geek dinner, which drew about 40 people with only one brave male soul amongst us. The rules of attending a Girl Geek dinner are simple: if you are male, you must bring a female with you or be brought by a female. You don’t have to be [...]
