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“i” jokes aside, Rogers introduced some brutal pricing plans for the Apple iPhone.
Canada is a fairly laid-back country when it comes to almost everything, but if there’s anything that can be determined by the existence of RuinediPhone.com, it’s this: don’t fuck with our mobile data plans! MacLeans‘ latest issue contains a lengthy article comparing Canadians [...]

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The topics I’ve been posting about lately have been somewhat varied; from Internet culture to hockey to politics to random thoughts. Remember when I went on and on about programming? Me too, so here goes.
This is for any ASP.NET coders out there Google-ing “There was an error processing the request”. I recently [...]

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The Stanley Cup finals begin tonight, which is welcome because the only other hockey to watch is the Memorial Cup - the Rangers take on the Chiefs in the finals tomorrow down at the Aud, BTW. Back to the quest for Lord Stanley’s Cup…
In the conference finals, I managed to successfully predict victory for [...]

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CBS tapped into something special when it gave the world the CSI television series. The original incarnation, set in Las Vegas, introduced viewers into the shock and gore that is criminolgy via “realistic” camera tricks. I’ll admit, having a bullet’s-eye view of a gunshot path was pretty cool at first. There’s something [...]

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I’m not what you would call a good checkers player or even someone who actually cares about the game. Yet I still find it interesting that a team of computer science researchers at the University of Alberta have written a program, known as Chinook, that can play a perfect game of checkers. The [...]

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A Berkley PhD. student has written an essay regarding class divisions among Facebook and MySpace users. Let me distill it…
Facebook = preppy white people from middle to upper-middle class backgrounds having earned or planning to earn a post-secondary degree
MySpace = lower class, uneducated, non-white or “outcasts” (emo’s, goths, trenchcoat kids, etc).
I don’t use MySpace [...]

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Hello world!
I’m writing this from my living room’s couch, but my lappy isn’t with me. This is my first post using the Opera browser for the Nintendo Wii. The Wii remote isn’t as elegant as a simple keyboard, but it’s still easy to use, and not terribly cumbersome. Navigating sites with the Wii [...]

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While at work this past Thursday, I got a call from the Zeller’s on Ottawa St. in Kitchener, informing me that my Wii is ready for me to pick up. After work, Dena and I picked it up, brought it home, hooked it up, joined it to our wireless network at home and poked [...]

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Last Monday I scored four goals. Last night, I added two more, for six goals in the past two games. How did I do it? I was on the receiving end of many good passes and setups. However, I’ve also listened to the Ramones‘ under-appreciated 1985 album, Too Tough To Die, [...]

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