K’s Weblog

At what point did I become completely dependent on my technology?  I mean, I can remember a time when I didn’t carry  a cell phone.  Sure my life was simpler back then, but even doing some simple tasks today seems all to difficult without the phone.
As these devices have made their way into our lives, [...]

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As I promised in last night’s post, I’m using Boston’s free Wi-Fi network to drop a quick email to the Mayors of both Burnaby and Vancouver.  The gist: Free Wi-Fi in urban centres is a great thing.  I decided to include a copy of the email on the blog for anyone who might be interested.
Good [...]

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The city of Boston along with a couple of partners offers free open Wi-Fi in a public area near the harbour.  While the news itself is more than 18 months old, I felt the need to post about it since I only discovered it today.
This is a move by the city of Boston which will [...]

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Messaging and “GTD-ish” service Jott has just launched new local numbers in many major cities in Canada. The service has gone from one local number in Toronto, to twenty nation-wide.
Here is an excerpt from the email sent to Canadian Jott users today:
In an effort to protect your privacy, most Canadian mobile providers have blocked [...]

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On Friday executives at Warner Brothers announced that they would be committing to support the Blu-Ray format for HD movies and would be ceasing production of movies in the HD-DVD format at the end of May, 2008.
Though the battle is far from over with technology giants like Intel and Microsoft backing the Toshiba-led HD-DVD format.  [...]

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I was sent a link to this YouTube video a couple of days ago, and it took me a bit of time to get around to watching it in its entirety. When you stop to think about what this means for the future of gaming, the future looks pretty cool. This type of [...]

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I’m just about to start my upgrade to OS X 10.5 “Leopard”.
I called around to a few London Drugs locations today trying to sort out where I’d make my purchase, and to see how many copies each had. It seems like most LD locations only got 10 copies though several, like Brentwood where I [...]

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I’ve been running a Linux machine at the house for some time now, experimenting with trying to use it for a central file server where I can get at things like music and pictures from any of the computers in the house, and in some cases from over the Internet.
I’ve tried using various incarnations of [...]

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On September 5th, Apple announced a new fleet of portable devices to go along with the iPhone. These devices included revised versions of the iPod (now the iPod Classic), iPod Nano and iPod shuffle.  In addition to the revised devices, Apple has released two new devices.  The first is the one we’ve all heard [...]

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This is something that had been plaguing me for several months since I acquired my Palm Treo 700wx.  Overall I’ve loved the device and found it absolutely indispensable.  There are of course a few niggling details like the lack of a scroll wheel, but overall I’ve been really happy with it.
One thing I couldn’t figure [...]

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