The CRTC
has decided that Canadians don't actually need to keep up with growing demands on the Internet,
nor do we need competition or diversity in a supposedly-capitalistic market.
Metered and capped Internet is fine with them, and one style of
u...
25 October 2010 22:31
HTML email is everywhere.
We use it to send emails with formatting far beyond what was available to us
with simple text-only email. Lists look more like the lists we're used to
seeing in documents and on web pages, headings look like actual headin...
18 September 2010 22:33
Just like any other time where society feels it's necessary to give and receive
presents, the period leading up to an election is a time of great expectations
and anticipation of the glorious gifts our leader-to-be will bestow upon us. We
get so b...
11 August 2010 22:36
When we think about friends, we typically think about those few people with
whom we share a fairly close bond. Friends are people who we can turn to for
support, advice, assistance and many other mutually beneficial things. Despite
this, social ne...
28 July 2010 22:54
Earlier this month, Sheena Iyengar gave a great talk at
TED on the art of choosing. She raises some
excellent points about how we approach choice in the Western world, believing
that more choice is good. Incidentally, this is the same phenomenon t...
12 July 2010 19:46
The University of New Brunswick announced today a donation in excess of
twenty million dollars from its Chancellor, Dr. Richard J. Currie. The
announcement may be viewed on the university site
or on the Telegraph Journal site. While this
is indeed...
05 July 2010 23:40
I've never thought of myself as a radical extremist. I know a lot of ideas I
have are radical in that they would significantly change the status quo and
probably prevent a lot of the problems I see in government, but I recognize
that and the impor...
04 July 2010 23:24
Recently I was in a brief conversation about the use of the
IEEE.
They are an institution that, like many (all?) other standards organizations,
seems to exist largely or entirely to standardize the reason for their
existence. While it is generally...
30 June 2010 16:32
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, codenamed "Lucid Lynx", was released in April 2010.
One exciting new feature in Ubuntu 10.04 was a reworked interface designed
specifically for netbooks. This interface had been introduced earlier, but was
supposedly improved for...
29 June 2010 12:03
Facebook has again decided that you don't need to be consulted before things
are added to your profile. Last time, they decided that applications were OK to
be added without your permission. Now, they're allowing web site owners to add
pages to th...
