Apple Good vs. Apple Bad

Yes Apple announced a new computer yesterday, and a new iPod. And yes I want them both and so does your mom, blah blah blah, we’ve heard it all before. But not so well put as Gizmodo does with iProduct and AppleHaters.
Sigh. So true. So true.
(Thanks Mike!)

Gates on Apple and Office for OS X

Gizmodo is running an on-going interview with Bill Gates and in today’s installment they touch upon his feelings about Office for X and Apple’s once-again expected foray into the word processing space:

Gizmodo: How do you feel about this rumor going around that Apple’s going to launch their own Office competitor? Their own office suite.
Gates: They’ve [...]

The Star’s correction

The Star has succinctly corrected the errors made in yesterday’s article:

Roy Maguire is the brother-in-law of John and Jackie Knill of Vancouver. Kirsten Maguire is the daughter of Roy Maguire. Kirsten’s given name was misspelled. Incorrect information was given in a story today about Canadians missing in tsunami-hit regions. The Star regrets the errors.

However they [...]

Dear Toronto Star: stop laying off your fact checkers

Today the Toronto Star’s lead story is again about the rising death toll in Asia as a result of the tsunami in Search for the dead. As you may be aware, if you’ve read back a couple of days, you know that Roy Maguire has been in Thailand looking for relatives of his that have [...]

.Net Crypto and “PKCS7 padding” errors

If you’re mucking about with .Net in the System.Security.Cryptography classes and you get an error that looks like this:

Additional information: PKCS7 padding is invalid and cannot be removed.

check that your salt value is the same for your encryption and decryption processes. If it isn’t you’ll get this error.
There may be other reasons for it but [...]

UFOs caused the tsunami

In a fairly pathetic attempt to find a reason, uncover purpose and assign blame for the tsunami huge numbers of people are now reporting that they sighted UFOs hovering in the area before it hit, in An enormous number of UFO sightings before Tsunami and earthquake in South and Southeast Asia – were they trying [...]

Wired News headlines dissected

Every day I read Wired News via RSS and I’ve come to realize that their headlines follow the same format every single day. Take this morning for instance:

Some U.S. customer support lines outsourced to India experienced a brief failure in service following the deadly Asian tsunami, but economists say U.S. companies won’t have to [...]

Canadian Tire Guy dissected

If you live in Canada then you know Canadian Tire Guy. Everyone knows Canadian Tire Guy and almost to a person everyone has a low-level dislike of him. Leave it to Jay Pinkerton to nail it right on the head in Maybe we were too hard on Canadian Tire Guy:

Canadian Tire is a northern version [...]

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