Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Chris Pirillo on users vs. developers

Monday, June 26th, 2006 • 2:18 pm

It all boils down to this.

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Eddie Floyd, “Oh How It Rained”

Thursday, May 18th, 2006 • 1:41 pm

A beautiful soul track.

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Statistics Canada’s 2006 Census form: Is it a checkbox or a radio button?

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 • 8:27 am

What’s the language that you first learned? Check.

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Bell ExpressVu: More on event timer bug

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 • 7:51 am

The plot thickens. A pay-per-view movie was also involved.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: New software full of bugs

Monday, May 15th, 2006 • 7:39 am

The new software for the 9200 receiver is quite obviously buggy, in ways that can have pretty disastrous consequences for TV viewers.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: Software update

Saturday, May 13th, 2006 • 2:23 pm

The long-awaited software update for the 9200 receiver has arrived.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: On-going problems with stuttering playback

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 • 9:15 am

It looks like a hardware problem, but it’s more likely a software problem—and we’re still waiting for a fix.

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Crappy e-mail from the iTunes Music Store

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 • 9:47 am

Plain-text e-mail is becoming less and less viable as an alternative to HTML formatted e-mail.

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France and Apple’s iTunes Music Store: What about Windows DRM?

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 • 1:28 pm

A little-mentioned issue stemming from the proposed French law on DRM.

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Network-hating time

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 • 11:58 am

Some days, living in a cave does sound tempting.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: Can’t stop playback without stopping recording

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 • 3:46 pm

The greater flexibility provided by PVR units is not matched by the user interface for it.

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New York Times article on broken iPods

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 • 3:14 pm

Apparently, there are millions of disgruntled iPod users out there.

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SpamCop blacklist and Bell Canada web site nightmare

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 • 10:40 am

This is one pathetic Internet service provider web site.

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Universal to reissue 10,000 deleted albums as downloads

Monday, January 23rd, 2006 • 10:28 am

Are record companies finally starting to see the economic benefits of the “long tail?”

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iPods and hearing loss: a reality check

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 • 10:40 am

Breaking news: It all depends on the volume level.

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