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Resigning Myself to Vista

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

I have been a dyed in the wool Vista critic since it came out in early 2007. In a nutshell, my main beef with the system has been that it’s a resource hog, it has a few annoying features to improve security and it’s not a huge improvement over Windows XP. However, with this weeks’ [...]

The Death of the Desktop PC? London Drugs Says “Not Quite”

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

I’ve recently been on the market for a new desktop PC. I have a laptop that I bought around two years ago and it’s been showing signs of decay. It probably just needs more RAM and a clean install of Windows but I’m finding that my computing needs are increasing and my little Dual Core [...]

The Stealth Incursion of Zombie-Killing Robots Into Our Lives

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

This Father’s Day, one of my children gave me a copy of How To Build a Robot Army: Tips On Defendiing Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies. It’s a great book and full of new insight not already covered by Engadget and blogs of that nature. This book reads like Popular Mechanics on [...]

Dispatch from Quesnel - Broadband Over Powerline

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

This evening, I rest my reary haunches at a hotel in Quesnel. My day of fame and misfortune in Prince George over, I arrive at my hotel at the South end of Quesnel and am handed, along with my room key, a Broadband over Powerline (BPL) modem. I was dumbfounded. I’ve read about these things [...]

Dispatch from Prince George - The Oil Economy

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I’m sitting in hotel room in Prince George, BC and I’m bone tired from having driven 8 hours to get here. I was planning on writing about an interesting article I saw in the New York times on the wide-ranging impacts of oil price increases on consumer goods. However, my fatique levels will only allow [...]

What Does Mars Mean for Us?

Monday, May 26th, 2008

The recent (and happy) announcement of the successful Mars Phoenix Lander mission last night should give anyone who has dreamt of manned colonization of Mars a reason to think. We’re learning more and more all the time about our second-closest solar neighbour and this time around, we’re looking for water. Scientists have hypothesized that there [...]

Canadian Gov’t Considers Own Version of US’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

In the next two weeks, it is likely that the Canadian Minister for Industry, Jim Prentice will introduce a Canadian version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This piece of legislation has been struck down in the past in Canada and has been very controversial in the US.
There are a number of problems with [...]

Crooky Testdrives Six Compact Cars in Three Days - Part 3

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

At the end of this long weekend - two finalists have emerged. The Honda Fit and the Volkswagen City Golf. Click here to check out my reviews of the Nissan Versa, Honda Fit, Hyundai Accent and the Toyota Yaris. Before diving into the showdown between these two, let’s recap the testdrives on the last [...]

The Complicated Biofuels Proposition

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Back in February, I wrote about a New York Times story that basically heralded the death of biofuels as an alternative to gasoline. I want to follow up that post with new information that comes from another newspaper - but one from the West Coast this time. On May 3, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran this [...]

Would You Drive the New Volkswagen 1L?

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I know that I normally write about research methodologies on Wednesdays but to be frank, I’m running out of ideas for that category and most of my readers seem to be more interested in the technology and business topics I write about. This week, I want to talk about something that captured my attention: the [...]

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