Blogware lives

Joey has announced that Tucows has announced that Blogware, their all-in-one blogging software is now live and official and ready for use.
I’m happy to see that their blogs are now properly supporting the ‘alternate’ link referrers for the blog’s RSS feeds in their web pages. Good job folks, it all looks very nice!

The 2003 Ig Nobles are out

The Ig Nobles for 2003 have been announced and there are some great entries:

BIOLOGY
C.W. Moeliker, of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
[REFERENCE: "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)" C.W. [...]

Liberals win in a landslide

No surprise that the Liberals took this election by storm, winning 71 seats to the Tories 24 with the NDP trailing with 7. It was pretty clear from the get-go that almost everyone had given up on a PC win in this election (when the Fraser Institute says your economic policies are crap and your [...]

On PC hardware

My earlier lament got me thinking about the state of PC hardware and who, if anyone, makes PC-centric hardware that I like and admire (outside the very small, niche mod market in which there are a number of players who make shit-hot gear). I can only think of one company: Microsoft.

Dell ain’t no Apple

It seems that Dell plans to go head-to-head against Apple in the portable mp3 player/online music store business with the Dell DJ (Dell DJ Hacks, with more info).
Dear Dell: your mp3 player looks like ass; like a cheap knock-off of the iPod. There has got to be at least one decent, innovative hardware designer with [...]

Get your vote on

Today is elections day in Ontario. If you live here, go and vote. If you didn’t receive your yellow card in the mail you can still vote, you just need to show up with a couple pieces of valid ID. If you don’t know where to go to vote, check this site: Elections Ontario.

Sterling on 10 technologies that need to die

Famed sci-fi author Bruce Sterling has written “Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die” for the MIT Technology Review:

Technologies die rather routinely—seen a Conestoga covered wagon lately?—but it’s rare for them to be singled out and righteously put to death. Some technologies, however, are so blatantly obnoxious that the human race would rejoice if they were [...]

« go back