Well, I just made my first iPhone call.
That’s no biggie to hundreds of thousands of people in the US, of course, but the iPhone has not yet been released in Canada.
Mike Skovgaard, a buddy at work, has been buying them in the US and taking them up to Canada to unlock them to work with […]

Apple is getting its ass sued off over the iPhone.
I’d like to write a scathing critique of modern idiots who buy things they haven’t researched and then blame others for their idiocy, and an equally damning tirade against companies that produce nothing, add nothing, and do nothing but think up obvious ideas, patent them, and […]

Job warehouse Monster has had an ongoing security nightmare, with hackers infiltrating the database and pilfering usernames, passwords, and email addresses with which to launch phishing attacks.
The worst part? Monster doesn’t know how bad the problem is! From an email sent to me this morning (note the bolded portion):

As you may be aware, the Monster […]

These are the options if you want an Education Week subscription:

As you’ll quickly see, you actually pay more to get the online version than the print+online versions. Probably has a lot to do with advertising revenue and subscription counts.
Major rip-off … and it isn’t doing trees any favors either.
Tags: education week, price, […]

Apple’s scheduled a Steptember 5th special event: “the beat goes on.”
It’s obviously about iPods. My guess is that Apple’s now ready to take the next step. More to the point, the marketplace is finally ready for Apple to release the next evolution in iPod: mobile computing.
You already see it in iPhone. And we know that […]

I’m on vacation for two weeks, so posting has and will continue to be light.
Last week the whole extended family was in Osooyoos, BC, for some lake and sun and family time. This week I’m working around the house on a major landscaping project with Allan blocks, and next weekend we have something special planned […]

Dan Knight of Low End Mac fame has a well-researched article on the abandoned Apple office suite AppleWorks, which used to be ClarisWorks.
Most of it I’m taking with a bit of a grain of salt, since I know Dan is a keep-my-old-computers-til-they-rot kinda guy, but he makes a number of good points, and one very […]

Smart article on changing your browser’s useragent to gain access to pay sites:

Ever wondered why Google returned search results that lead to sites that require a registration? How did Google index the site without a registration? Many sites want their site indexed in Google to receive more hits, so they allow Googlebots in. Because of […]

If anyone’s still following the SCO/Linux trials these days, SCO just lost bigtime.
Having briefly met and known SCO CEO Darl McBride, I was interested enough to check out SCO’s website. Clicking on the News link was amusing …

Apparently there hasn’t been any good news in 10 months.
Tags: sco, linux, unix, news, […]

Verisign is driving me nuts emailing me and phoning me. Just to make it perfectly clear:

I don’t want your PDF white papers on internet security.
I don’t want your SSL certificates.
I don’t want your emails.
I especially don’t want your phone calls from “sales executives.”

Hrm … now that’s off my chest I feel marginally better. Until the […]