I’m weak, I admit it. I love technology and tend to buy things as soon as they’re available. This time at least, I had to wait until it was available to Canadians, which is a complaint worth an entire other website, not just another blog post. This post is about the Kindle itself, not all [...]
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last.fm
I’ve talked about last.fm in the past. I had kinds words to say about them, and I’ve continued to use them since writing them. They’re in the news again this past week because of plans to require a subscription to stream music. Not even a large payment. $3/month. $36/year. A small price to pay if [...]
Exxon posts record biggest US quarterly profit. Ever.
We all know the oil companies makes billions off us. But it’s not their fault right? They just charge what they’re required to because of the cost of crude. Bullshit. Exxon posts the record quarterly earnings in the history of the US. $11.7 Billion dollars in a single quarter. Fuck you, is what I have [...]
Wii, PS3 and E3
I called myself a gamer once, so I should at least mention this years E3, and all the hype surrounding it. There are far better places to obtain qualified information about E3, so I will stick to my personal options obtained from those sources. Quick and simple like. Wii. Mocking the name will never grow [...]
Canadian’s aren’t allowed to be safe?
Browsing around, read a couple blog entries about it, see another link for it so I decide to check it out. Google’s new “Safe Browsing” Firefox extension sounds like a great idea. Any page you go to that asks you for information, this extension will tell you if the site is doing anything sneaky, or [...]
Banks to stop using SSL.
How’s that for a horribly incorrect, yet attention grabbing headline? Was reading over at Netcraft that some major banks in the US are going to remove the SSL encryption from their login pages so save the CPU time required to encrypt all that data. This, to me, is obsurd. There are several tools available to [...]
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