Archive for Category: Rants
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 [...]
Posted in General, Opinion, Rants, Technology, Web 2.0 |
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Tags: facebook, f8, platform, marketing, branding, applications, community, web+development
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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Tags: feeds, kinja, rss, digest, readers, ie6, gawker
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 [...]
Posted in Rants, Technology, Web 2.0 |
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Tags: pownce, alpha, client, adobe, air, error, windows+xp
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 [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Rants, Technology |
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Tags: mobile+phones, symbian, s60, nokia, n73, themes, customization, active+standby
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 [...]
Posted in Music, Rants |
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Tags: music, vancouver, rock, radio, cfox