I have always asserted that Facebook’s most valuable asset was its event stream (which you can see by clicking ‘home’ from within Facebook). It shows you what’s happening in your network. The other day I complained about having to block more...
On “This Week in Sarah Palin”, Sarah Palin’s extremely odd final speech as the governor of Alaska Sunday was interpreted by Master Thespian William Shatner for Conan O’Brien last night. Genius. You’re the man, Bill. With the loss of...
Statistics lauding the growth of the Internet in China have become so commonplace as to inspire yawns, despite breathless press reports of hundreds of millions of Chinese going online and signing up for the ‘net. With the Chinese Government declaring that...
When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away. This was the height of the cold war, and as...
It doesn’t have the convenience of a Babel Fish, but this is about as close as we can get with modern technology. Sakhr, a company specializing in English/Arabic translation which serves such clients as the U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security, has...
Have you had problems returning a damaged iPhone to Rogers Wireless? If so, I’d like to hear about it in the comments. It has been a year since Apple and Rogers Wireless launched the iPhone 3G in Canada. It was that summer, in 2008, I unloaded my...
