Category: TECHnically
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Is Google Evil? Part 3
Part 1 and part 2 of this ongoing series looked at visual clues that Google didn’t really believe in their mantra of “Do no evil.” In this installment I’m going to investigate some operational evilness on Google’s part. I’m a big, big, really big, fan of Google’s products and services. But what would you call…
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Federal Liberals still begging for hand-outs without doing anything to deserve them
I got another letter from the Federal Liberal Party of Canada today, extolling the virtues for their glorious leader and how much better they would be at running the country than the current crop of scoundrels (my words). The bottom of the letter includes a little form where you can contribute to their Victory fund.…
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Snow Leopard’s coming (oh wait, it’s here!)
The latest installment of Apple’s big cat OS is on its way (literally, at the time of starting this post it was leaving the sorting hub and on its way to a delivery truck). At first I was skeptical about buying a (.0) OS release, but rumors are rampant that 10.6.1 is in the pipeline…
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The Cataclysm is coming…
So they want me to blog more. ‘Pick any topic, as long as you blog’ they say. ‘Talk about WoW, there might be a few people out there that are interesting in whatever you have to say’. Fine, consider it done, this I can do! Although I have been WoWing (short for playing World of Warcraft…
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The new OS is in the wild – SL 64-bit on the prowl!
Since the release announcement in August I’ve been itching to get my hands on the new 64-bit version of my favourite operating system. Until now I’ve running a clunking old 32-bit OS that was getting kind of tired; the allure of 64-bit was really quite tempting.
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Snow Leopard: Hands On
Before I even get started with this, let me just that this hands on review will not rival John Siracusa’s in depth analysis of the latest flavour of Mac OS X. If you need that much detail, please go ahead and read his article here. It’s no secret that most of the Fat Dads…
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Tassimo: Service Done Right
We have this not-so-secret society here at work called The Brotherhood of The Disc, an amusing name for the 5 of us that banded together to pay top dollar for a Bosch Tassimo coffee maker. The “Why’s” of our purchase can be found here. So it’s no secret that we love our Tassimo coffee, none…
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The Skype SPIM/SPAM Has to Stop!
Are you getting tired of these request too? I’ve had just about enough of it and seriously thinking of dropping Skype altogether for good. The problem is not about one occasional spam message. The real problem is what they are not doing to protect it’s users.
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I Squish Your Head: Making the Shot
Every once in a while, we have a little time on your hands over lunch but can’t can’t out because of the rain. So from time to time, we’ll whip out the Lego mini-figs and set up a shot. Toys and Macro shots are not particularly hard to shoot but being geeks and Lego-maniacs…
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Piper Down! Piper Down!
It would appear that Twitter is down at the moment. Suffering form a DoS attack in Biz Stone’s own words: We had a lot of things we’d rather be doing this morning, defending against a DoS wasn’t one of them: Twitter Blog. A couple of things we suggest you refrain from doing: Randomly blurt out…