Palm: Back from the dead

Do you remember Palm? Or their PalmPilot? It seems like years since people had PalmPilots… overtaken by the Blackberry and the iPhone. Palm’s been floundering in it’s own inefficiency and lack of zeal for the last 10 years or so. Until now. I declare that Palm is back, and is badder (read: better) than ever. …

Asus EEE keyboard: a whole lot of lovely

Keyboards don’t generally see a huge about of development money, or media attention. Except for the these two, but they’re exceptions to the rule. Enter, another exception to the rule! The Asus EEE keyboard… which is really an entire PC built inside a keyboard frame. It looks like it’s designed for media centre usage, including …

What to do with the Canadian government

If you’ve been following Canadian politics at all, you’ll know the last month has seen some very interesting headlines. I’m convinced now more than ever, that what Canada needs most is electoral reform. The current system of election is so remarkably unrepresentative of the population’s desires, that it’s no wonder we end up with back …

Gig: Passionate Heart 08 in Lahti, Nov 22

The good people of Lahti have asked me back to DJ at Passionate Heart 08. It’s an evening of music, dance and community outreach, and this year it will be in their newly renovated facility building, which I hear is great. Passionate Heart 08 @ Wanha Walimo (Vesijarvenkatu 25, Lahti) Nov 22nd, 6-10ish Free entrance …

Amazon’s new packaging initiative: Oh please oh please!

I came across Jeff Bezos’ announcement on Amazon yesterday, regarding their new packaging plan. Slashdot reported it as well. Basically, they’ve convinced a number of manufacturers to simplify and green-ify their product packaging, and are hoping this will catch on over the next few years. All I can say is good freaking job Amazon. Here …

Dangers with the iPhone

Truth be told, I kinda like the iPhone. I’ve thought about buying one. Shocking? Haha, perhaps. I don’t want to like it really, because I don’t like Apple, but it’s a nice looking/functioning product. A good package. (My thoughts on Google Chrome are similar… nice, functional, but surely fueled by an evil empire.) Anyway, one …

Psystar brings Macs to the masses, and litigation!

For a few months now Psystar has been selling Mac clones, flying in the face of Apple’s End User License Agreement, which forbids people running Mac OS X on non-Apple branded hardware. Not everyone knows, since moving OS X to run on Intel processors, OS X will run “pretty much fine” on regular PC hardware. …

Apple: Stop being stupid

I’m no Apple lover, let’s be honest. It’s not because I don’t like their products, or because I like Windows or any other superficial reason. It’s because I wholeheartedly believe that in a different world they would be the Microsoft. The things that are fundamentally wrong about Microsoft are fundamentally wrong about Apple as well. …

Facebook – Too many stupid fan pages

Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here. I’ve decided there are too many fan pages for people I think it’s silly to declare yourself a fan of. The catalyst for me has been Christian leaders and teachers. These are good …

Firefox 3 vs secure certificates and authorities

I installed Firefox 3 the other week, and have to say I’m quite impressed. The memory leak issues are not fully resolved, but big steps have been made. (With certain programs like Flash and Adobe Acrobat Reader it’s still churning the memory for me. I compared with Opera 9.5, and that’s still more conservative.) Like …