Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Nothing to see here except for non-sequitur humour that passes as “funny”. I can’t believe Microsoft paid him $10M to star in this dreck. Or, rather, I can’t believe that Jerry Seinfeld wants to attach his name to this kind of work for *any* kind of money. Shoes? Clowns? Cake? Is that supposed to be [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
My laptop is running XP, and its a bit of an oldish machine. Pentium M. 500 MB RAM. 80 gig hard drive. Its running a little slower these days — seems to slow right down the instant you right click on a folder, or open up the control panel. In fact, its so slow I [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Not that *I* do, of course (cough, cough), but I’ve noticed that browsing on the iPhone to be a fairly awesome mobile experience, where, of course, I can literally surf anywhere, and surf real webpages, not the mobile optimized crap that often passes as a “web experience”. Yesterday, for example, I found myself on my couch [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Lots of interesting news about Google’s new browser, Chrome, and lots more interesting questions around it. I love the comic by Scott Adams McCloud, being a fan of his work (mainly Understanding Comics and Making Comics ) as well, but that’s beside the point. The most surprising news, for me, is that its not being [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
My son is almost two now, and I find that as he’s getting older, its becoming tougher to regularly blog *and* be a Dad who is “present” at home. I’m finding something that most new parents already know: as babies turn into toddlers, and as toddlers turn into children, they actually demand more and more [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
So, in light of the new data plan promotion for 3G phones up here in Canada via Rogers (part of our wireless oligopoly), I decided to go full bore and just go for it. Even though Rogers has extended this “special” rate for data plans for another month or three, it made sense for me. [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Somewhere in the cacophony of the usual stuff on TechmemeCrunchFeed this past week, I missed this interesting nugget of news: Google News makes money. Lots of it. To the tune of $100 million fungolas. Now, when I heard about this, I did the proverbial triple take (”… wait, wait, wait — WHAT'”). I’ve been a big fan of [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
*image via Quantcast Almost 8 months into its public launch, Pownce is looking like a bit of a lame duck. Which is strange (or not). On paper, Pownce seems like a better Twitter than Twitter, given that you can also share files (up to 100 MB in size), as well as embed photos, videos, or MP3’s. Plus, [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Interesting study from Third Age / JWT Boom, which shows how people over the age of 40 (presumably in North America, although there’s no mention that I can find of where they’re from) are engaged with social media on the Internets: the bottom line is that they’ve embraced email (in spite of the cacophony of [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
So, if you’ve been blogging for any stretch of time, you might get contacted from time to time by public relations firms on behalf of web entities looking for a mention. I know I do. Perhaps I’m not so important that I get included on some lists and not others (in fact, I think that’s [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris. Now, that’s funny. :) Catch all three “blog” episodes at http://www.drhorrible.com
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Silly question for you to ponder: even though mistakes happen, and they are inevitable, in the evolving space of cloud computing, is ever acceptable for the structures which host the cloud to be “down”? I wonder if we’re yet at the dawn of an era where enough businesses are building — and depending on the [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Up here in the hinterlands of Canada, you may have heard about the giant uproar with Rogers, our only provider who can support, and therefore, sell the iPhone — specifically with the bald-faced inequitable profiteering of its data and voice rates in comparison with other countries (i.e. the United States). You may have also heard [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
If you’re a user of Wordpress, you should probably always upgrade when a new version comes out for security reasons. However, with the new release of Wordpress 2.6, there are three features that really stand out for me — in addition to the security enhanced goodness and all the other new stuff, that is — [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
I guess its debatable about whether the number of RSS subscribers is a useful metric. Now that we’ve all acknowledged that it *might* be debatable, here’s a tiny bit of techblogger mind candy for you to enjoy — know which tech-related blog that almost has the same number of subscribers as TechCrunch? I should add [...]
