Our favourite moron is giving $150 million to private broadcasters, but is forcing the CBC to decimate its workforce by some 800 heads. If we had any doubts of the Harper government’s agenda to put down the CBC, they’ve now been put to rest. I don’t know about you, but I’m livid. Clearly Harper missed…
I’d heard about RiP: A Remix Manifesto on CBC’s very excellent Search Engine podcast a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure how it bubbled up (probably through Facebook), but I ended up going to see it at the Royal on opening night with Morty and Bebe. WARNING: You will come out of this movie…
The CRTC is in the process of gathering comments on Net Neutrality from Canadians, in preparation for their hearings on the subject this summer. Now is your oportunity to let your voice be heard on this important subject. Our friends at SaveOurNet.ca have set up a handy form to send your thoughts on the matter…
As previously reported, I proudly registered my phone numbers on the National Do Not Call List the day it went live. Since then I’ve received the usual number of telemarketing pitches from the usual assortment of crooks, swindlers and Conservatives. In each case, I submitted a complaint about them at the DNCL website, but haven’t…
I’ve been kept very busy over the past couple of months setting up butterscotch.com: Tucows’ new video network, brimming with terrific videos, short and long, providing tips, tricks and insights into technology for pros and tyros. Our new team includes tech media veterans Andy Walker, as General Manager and Executive Producer; Amber MacArthur, Director of…
Finally! The CRTC’s Do Not call List, as implemented by our friends at Bell Canada, throttlers of Internet feeds everywhere, has gone live today. Then keeled over and died because Canadians across the nation pounced at the opportunity to shield themselves from the nefarious effects of telemarketers. If you want to register, and I recommend…
This week I attended Mozilla’s Developer Days at Seneca College, on the York University campus. It had been years since I attended anything at York, and boy has it changed.
You have to feel sorry for the developers of the IE browser. Here they are, toiling away on this software for over 10 years now, and it’s still not able to render pages correctly. Then along comes Google, and on their first try come out with a product which eclipses Microsoft’s fakakta browser several times…
Last weekend, an earnest young lady named Taylor Lewis knocked on my door. She was wearing a Sick Kids Hospital vest, and had a special tag hanging on a lanyard around her neck, identifying her as a certified agent of the hospital, empowered to represent the institution for the purposes of collecting donations. I listened…
Over a month ago I contacted Ken Dryden’s riding office to arrange a meeting with my Member of Parliament. I expected to see him within a week or two; I’d tell him of my concerns related to various issues of the day, and he’d take that into consideration when he returned to Ottawa. But no. …