This one’s for the programmers: I’ve started a one-man project to write libraries of PHP wrapper functions for the Tucows APIs called “Project Ash”. It’s named after “Ash” from the Evil Dead series of movies; he was one guy with a chainsaw trying to make a difference. If your eyes haven’t yet glazed over, go [...]
Category Archives: Geek
Global Nerdy: Still an Ongoing Concern
February 1, 2007 – 5:58 pm
In case you were wondering, the tech news blog that I share with my buddy George, Global Nerdy is still an ongoing concern. Current stories include:
“Computer, run exploit!” If you record a sound file containing spoken commands, you might be able to con a Vista user with speech recognition enabled into playing it, after which [...]
Tainted Vista Review #2 on "Global Nerdy"
January 19, 2007 – 3:35 pm
The comic panel on the right (taken from this Achewood comic) summarizes what I want to say to the folks behind Windows Vista. Yes, I think that it’s got some improvements on Windows XP, but the annoyances I’ve had have eclipsed the steps forward. In the second installment of The Tainted Vista Review — my [...]
Cake Error
January 18, 2007 – 1:33 pm
Even the relatively low-tech field of baking has adopted computers: a number of bakeries can now “print” photos onto a cake with an ordinary inkjet printer, edible paper and food-grade dyes. If you’re not satisfied with posting pictures of your cat on your blog, you can join the ranks of the edible imagers — there [...]
Job Opportunities at Tucows [Updated]
January 10, 2007 – 7:37 pm
UPDATE: I’ve added an opening for a MySQL Sysadmin position.
Are you a techie based in the Accordion City area and looking for a job at a great place to work? Tucows needs to fill a couple of positions. First, we need a Customer Service Representative:
Click the picture to more information about the Customer Service Representative [...]
Why I Don’t Worry That My Job Will Be Outsourced to India
January 9, 2007 – 7:10 am
The types of jobs that get outsourced are those that management thinks are the type in which people are interchangeable and for which there are set procedures or routines from which you don’t deviate. I don’t worry that my job will be outsourced to India because my line of work — technical evangelist — is [...]
Joel on Backpedalling
January 6, 2007 – 3:26 pm
Well, that didn’t take long. In his Thursday, December 28th blog entry, geek blogger Joel “Joel on Software” Spolsky wrote this rather absolute-sounding pronouncement on Microsoft’s Vista-loaded laptop giveaway:
Microsoft’s crazy offer, though, made me think a lot more about this whole thing, and I’ve decided that from this point forward I’m not accepting [...]
Wired’s Top Ten Tech Cities, Toronto and Toronto Tech Week
January 5, 2007 – 7:20 pm
Here’s something of interest to those of you who are interested in helping promote Accordion City as a great place for techies to live, work and play: Wired’s article, 10 Top Tech Towns, in which they list the top 10 cities across the U.S. “to get your geek on”. The cities, in alphabetical order, are:
Austin
Boston
Los [...]
Congratulations, Albert!
January 4, 2007 – 8:35 pm
This one’s going to make sense only to those familiar with the Accordion City tech scene: Congrats to local tech scenester and Bubbleshare CEO Albert Lai on the acquisition of BubbleShare by Kaboose!
For more details, go take a look at my article on Global Nerdy.
What’s Up on "Global Nerdy"
January 4, 2007 – 3:06 pm
Global Nerdy, the tech weblog I share with my old pal George, made its first appearance on television last night, thanks to an interview conducted by Amber MacArthur on CityNews. I’ve got more in this article on Global Nerdy.
Here are some other recent articles on Global Nerdy:
Google Wins: “Google has won both the online search [...]
"Mystery Date" Hates Nerds!
January 3, 2007 – 7:03 pm
The Mystery Date board game
I asked my sister about the sort of present I should get for her oldest son, who’s a very bright five-year-old, and she replied “board games”. I thought this was a good idea; while board games don’t have the flash of today’s videogames for kids, there’s still something about them that [...]
Introducing the Tainted Vista Review!
December 29, 2006 – 8:13 pm
Over at Global Nerdy, I’ve got the first article of a new series: The Tainted Vista Review in which I make reports about my experiences using Windows Vista on the laptop sent to me by the Microsoft-Acer-Edelman troika. As I state in the article, asides from saying “Thanks for the free laptop”, I’m not beholden [...]
Blogger Don’t Preach (I’m Keeping the Laptop)
December 28, 2006 – 4:34 pm
[This has been cross-posted to my tech blog, Global Nerdy.]
Ferrarigate
If you’ve been following the technology blogs over the holidays, you’ve probably heard about Microsoft’s latest “guerilla marketing” move to promote Windows Vista: give some bloggers a free Acer Ferrari 1000 or Acer Ferrari 5000 laptop pre-loaded with Windows Vista to try out. The [...]
What’s This All About?
December 20, 2006 – 8:09 pm
Want to know what this image is all about? Go check Global Nerdy and find out.
Only Global Nerdy Would Run a Graphic Like This
December 19, 2006 – 6:03 pm
Today on Global Nerdy:
C’mon, would Scoble show an image like this for the story about Google deprecating its SOAP API on his blog? Arrington? Om? My newest LinkedIn buddy, Jason Calacanis? (Okay, he might, and I think Marc Canter would too.)
But seriously, folks: for smart-headed and smart-assed tech news, Global Nerdy’s the place to go.
Over at "Global Nerdy"…
December 18, 2006 – 5:50 pm
Over at my tech blog Global Nerdy, we’ve been blogging like a mofo:
Google’s PageRank Algorithm, in 126 Lines of Python: Interesting — no idea how accurately it mimics PageRank, however.
Tips for Using Images on Your Site and Optimizing Google Image Search: remember, search engines can’t read pictures.
As iThought, the iPhone iSn’t from Apple: Winning customers [...]
