January 2005

January 20, 2005

You may have noticed my absence over the last few weeks. Two things conspired against me — one was that I’ve been working very hard, but the other was that my RSS reader suddenly went bad. I’ve been test driving Intravnews, which I like a lot so far. While at CES, however, the proxy at the [...]

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January 20, 2005

BBC warns that you should watch out for “Evil Twin” hotspots. With wireless, building a trojan just got a whole lot easier.

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January 14, 2005

Root for Verna! I’ve never watched The Apprentice before, but I will now, because Verna used to work for me!

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R.H. Phillips New Closures Stink

January 14, 2005

Picked up a bottle of one of my favorite inexpensive wines yesterday — R.H. Phillips Dunnigan Hills Syrah (or Shiraz, as they’ve rechristened it). The wine is still excellent, but their new packaging stinks… here’s what I wrote to their marketing department. —- Folks, this is a little not-so-gentle feedback from a longtime customer and [...]

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Rotgut Reviews: Yellowtail Merlot

January 14, 2005

This is the first in a series of "Rotgut Reviews". I am on a quest to find drinkable, but inexpensive wine. Last night we pulled the cork on a bottle of Yellowtail Merlot, from Australia’s Casella Wines. This product of the Australian wine lake is available from the LCBO for just $11.85. The LCBO marketing [...]

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January 12, 2005

I’m finally back and nearly finished digging out from CES. A lot has been written in the blogosphere about the show. I had a great three days, and met a lot of people. Spent part of one afternoon with fellow blogger Stuart Henshall strolling one of the halls. It was great to finally meet in [...]

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January 7, 2005

Day 1 of CES was exhausting. Tried and failed to get into the Gates keynote last night — too many people. Today, criss-crossed the haul looking for new technologies. In VoIP, the big thing seems to be multi-handset / multi-line cordless phones with an ATA added to the base station. Good strategy on the part [...]

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January 5, 2005

There you have it. December 26th I sent mail to Stephen Harper and Peter McKay. Today, I got a very nice automated response from Stephen Harper (attached). Mr. Harper, I think you need to have a chat with your staff about modernizing your approach. 10 days is a long time to wait for a computer [...]

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January 5, 2005

And then you have this piece from National Geographic which refutes the Discovery Channel, saying that west coast North Americans may have just 15 minutes warning before coastal areas are swamped.

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January 5, 2005

via email from my good friend Doug Willoughby, who is a Victoria resident: saw Daily Planet last night on Discovery channel and they were giving very indepth and technical coverage to the tsunami disaster… very informative and nice to watch a report that newsroom producers haven’t put their respective spins on the info….. point being [...]

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