I’m going on vacation soon and have been considering my options for mobile data/Internet in Europe. Plan A was to prepurchase data from Rogers Wireless as they offer discounts when you do this. Well a 57% savings is great but when the roaming data charges are large enough to be obscene, 57% is still WAY …
Category Archives: computing
Thoughts on Twitter
I’ve been using Titter now for almost two months and find it to be the most useful social tool out there. It has an amazing ability to allow people to connect that would otherwise never communicate. I don’t post very much to my account but always have a client, Twitterific, running on my laptop. I …
I created a Twitter account about thirty minutes ago. The concept of Twitter seemed a little daft to me when the service started but today I read an interesting piece by Wil Wheaton that convinced me otherwise. I made the assumption that it’s used for opinions that you want to quickly express or the “what …
Punishing Their Customers
I don’t use Windows much anymore and today I’m reminded why. I have a legal copy of Windows XP Pro and I needed to reinstall on the machine it was purchased for. Guess what, Microsoft wants me to call them to activate it. Screw them. It’s faster for me to install an older version and …
The CRTC is a failure
I think it is time the government of Canada seriously considers dissolving the CRTC. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is supposed to be the holder of the public good in regulating those industries listed in the CRTC’s name. They have once again backed away from protecting the public good and are allowing telecom companies …