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I’ve been wanting to try WIND Mobile for a while now, but my phone (Nexus One) didn’t support the frequency bands used by the new carriers. But recently I replaced it with a Galaxy Nexus, which supports the frequencies of … Continue reading →

I just upgraded to MythTV 0.24, and so far it’s looking great! Closed captions look much nicer and the revamped on-screen display looks very sharp. But one problem I’d seen occasionally in 0.23 seemed to be worse: tearing in video … Continue reading →

I was starting to get tired of Drupal, so I thought I’d switch my blog over to WordPress. So far I’m impressed. The installation was simple, and I was up and running in minutes. I thought of using a script … Continue reading →

I just sent my submission to the Canadian Copyright Consultation. There’s still time to submit, if you haven’t done so already. I’d recommend reading Professor Michael Geist’s submission to get some ideas. Here’s my submission: Having read over the previous … Continue reading →

Tonight I watched the season finale of the Rick Mercer Report. It was a pretty normal episode, but one of the jokes nearly made me fall off my chair. It was in a spoof ad for “COLD-fX Drip”, an intravenous … Continue reading →

My laptop is an Inspiron 5100, and for the longest time I couldn’t figure out how to get “Desktop Effects” (compiz) going in Ubuntu. I didn’t think my video card (Radeon Mobility 7500) was compatible, but it turns out it … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about building myself a new desktop machine for a while now, but I finally got around to it this weekend after the motherboard in my old machine failed. Here’s what’s in the new one: Intel Core 2 … Continue reading →

It’s been a month now since all my Rogers services were canceled, and I couldn’t be happier. The National Capital Freenet is providing me with great DSL service at a great price, and over-the-air television is working out wonderfully thanks … Continue reading →

Since moving to Ottawa, I’ve been getting cable television and internet from Rogers. It wasn’t bad for the first year or so, but since then they’ve been raising their prices every six months, sometimes significantly. It had reached the point … Continue reading →

A while ago, I was fooling around with a couple of the music recommendation services, Last.fm and Pandora. They didn’t suggest much interesting, with one notable exception: Action Figure Party. I heard their song “Everybody Ready” and loved it. I … Continue reading →