Archive for Category: Rants

facebook applications: use or be used

Monday, January 28th, 2008, 8:12 pm
Filed under: General, Opinion, Rants, Technology, Web 2.0

I’ll admit, I was an early Canadian Facebook adopter — once they opened things up for non-students in September of 2006, of course. I had looked at Facebook long before that (the popular web application had been around for over two years prior to opening up to the general public), and unhappily had not [...]

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kinja and the dearth of good digest feed readers

Thursday, October 25th, 2007, 7:17 pm
Filed under: General, Rants, Web 2.0

Don’t you love a good generic Internet Explorer error message? That big red X bubble always makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Especially when it pops up every time I open a new IE browser window. Ugh.
I’ve been using Nick Denton’s Kinja as my RSS feed reader of choice for the last two years [...]

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pownce alpha client blowing up on winxp

Saturday, July 7th, 2007, 2:42 pm
Filed under: Rants, Technology, Web 2.0

So I got a Pownce invite in my email this morning. I signed up, created an account, mucked around a little bit to see how it worked, and of course, downloaded the desktop client. I hate Twitter, so I wasn’t planning on sitting around using the web interface to Pownce either. I already run MSN [...]

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s60 3rd edition: dashboard customization?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007, 11:53 am
Filed under: Gadgets, Rants, Technology

As you may remember from my previous post, I picked up a Nokia N73 (Music Edition) smartphone on my trip to Thailand a couple of months ago. I’ve been getting used to it since, and I only have a couple of gripes about it thus far. The main thing would be the response time of [...]

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what’s wrong with vancouver rock radio?

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006, 1:23 pm
Filed under: Music, Rants

To preface this, I haven’t posted anything in a while, so what could possibly be better to get the ball rolling than a rant? :)
So, I was minding my own business this morning, getting ready for work. I turn on the radio in the bathroom as I’m about to step into the shower — this [...]

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