February 2005

by alec on February 28, 2005

Hey – my brother Matthew has a blog.  Go check it out!  Great reviews of noise cancelling headphones.

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by alec on February 12, 2005

Mark Cuban — My Cellphone, My Life.  I’d buy this.

Here is what I expected from my next PDA/Phone beyond what I can buy today.

1. At least 1gb of storage via flash memory, or 5gbs through a miniature drive

2. A standard USB port so that I can copy any standardized files to or from an external storage device

3. The ability to recognize that storage device as a drive accessible to my phone apps.

4. The ability to call a number or us bluetooth to replace my credit or debit cards and automatically record the transaction in a money management program

And so on … the rest of the post is worth a read. 

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February 12, 2005

Charles Hudson’s thoughts on Skype and convergence.  He asks whether, for instance, WiFi / cellular convergence is really a need.  Charles points out that minutes are costing less and less.  It’s a truism that for the last decade devices haven’t converged, but the media they consume has.  Over time the advantages of unified pipes have been [...]

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February 11, 2005

I can’t say that I’m unhappy to see Kristin get the axe on the Apprentice tonight. She’s been an argumentative and boastful witch since the beginning.  Both teams deserved to go to the board room though.  The cardinal rules of advertising are: know your audience, know your product.  We saw a whole bunch of footage of people [...]

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February 8, 2005

I finally watched episode three of the Apprentice last night.  I think Magna has a problem.  They’re down three to Net Worth’s one.  Obviously it was disappointing to see Verna bail out, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do.  And as one of her Magna team mates pointed out, it was better [...]

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February 7, 2005

Last week’s Globe carried a story with the headline "Politician’s promises not set in stone, court says".  The Canadian Taxpayers Federation took Dalton McGuinty to court over a broken promise.  In a much publicized media event during his campaign, McGuinty promised not to raise taxes, and then promptly jacked up taxes when he got into power.  [...]

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Blackberry 7290

February 7, 2005

I retired the Motorola MPx200 last week.  As much as I loved this phone, the radio was an 1800/1900 unit, and completely impractical in Ottawa.  Reception was always spotty, and battery minimal as the poor thing valiantly tried to keep a signal alive by increasing the gain on the radio. I replaced it with a [...]

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US Interest Groups Attempt to Influence Canadian Election

February 7, 2005

A report in the Ottawa Citizen this morning claims that gay marriage opponents in the United States are funnelling massive dollars into Canada. It’s illegal for Canadian lobbyists (or any foreign lobbyist, for that matter) to spend money to influence the vote in the US, but it’s not illegal in our country for US lobbyists to spend [...]

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