Why I left Rogers

by | Feb 26, 2013 | Internet

On Friday I cancelled the last two things I had with Rogers. Home Phone and Internet. Why did I leave Rogers? I’ve never had a significant outage, I’m mostly happy with the bandwidth speed. My phone has never given me an issue. It can really be boiled down...

Anatomy of a Redesign – A List Apart

by | Feb 7, 2013 | Internet

A List Apart – For people who make websites, is one of my favourite resources on the internerds for web usability stuff.  I own all of the A Book Apart books, and I’ve always loved their websites. They just did a total redesign, and posted a great summary...

My DIG 2011 Web Stream Overview

by | Nov 16, 2011 | Internet

The DIG (Digital Interactive Gaming) conference in London Ontario added a Web Development stream this year to compliment the gaming streams. With an opening keynote by Jeffery Zeldman’ and a closing one by Derek Featherstone, there was world class content being...

A beautiful life – The passing of Steve Jobs

by | Oct 6, 2011 | Internet

Today the world is a little less beautiful, because yesterday, Steve Jobs died. I have no profound story of how I met Mr. jobs, or how I’ve used his products for decades, the truth is I hated every experience with a Mac I’d ever had until a couple of years...

HP Doesn’t Know What It Wants To Be

by | Sep 2, 2011 | Internet

I’ve been a bit of an HP fanboy for a while.  I have an 8 year old HP laser printer that I love, a 4 year old HP pavilion that still runs great, an HP Media Smart Home Server, and this year I bought my wife an HP laptop, and a new colour laser jet...

Zite for iPad is Awesome

by | Apr 20, 2011 | Internet

Since I bought my iPad a couple of weeks ago, there are two apps I use constantly. One is Flipboard, which turns your Twitter and Facebook feeds into a social magazine, which is pretty cool, but it separates Twitter from Facebook, and while it can use Google reader...