Category: Random

  • Dear Steve Jobs,

    All I want for Christmas is an officially sanctioned iPhone tethering app. I’ll put out some vegan cookies and soy milk on the hearth.


  • Google: Now With More Canadia

    Google labs just launched a political quote comparison engine called “in quotes.” Apparently Steven Harper is running for Prime Minister of Canadia. Update: Looks like the fixed it.


  • iPhone 2.1 Firmware Actually Fixed Stuff

    Go figure.  Battery life is better. I haven’t had to charge my phone over night. Keyboard and animations seem faster.  My car adapter actually charges my phone again.  I’m getting 1 more bar of 3G at home.


  • iPhone Tethering, Not As Hard As It Looks

    In a flip-flop move reminisant of John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, Rogers Wireless has reversed it’s policy regarding smart phone tethering. I’m not even going to try to speculate what’s going on internally with this company. Buried in this CBC article about Rogers’ (baffling) new data plans is this nugget: Unlike other cellphone carriers, Rogers…


  • 5 Reasons Tim Hortons Sucks

    For those of you unaware, Tim Hortons is an international1 coffee & donut shop co-founded by Tim Horton, a Canadian Hockey player (who died when he lost control of his 1974 Pantera at 100mph, while under the influence of alcohol and pain killers). By feeding off it’s inherently Canadian origins, combined with massive expansion, clever…