Since about Sunday, Dec 7th (I remember exactly because I noticed it when leaving the regular ByMUG meeting at Patty Bolands) my iPhone for no particular reason decided to translocate itself to GMT+1 time zone. It was not visible immediately, only emails received at 16:20 were shown as received 6 hour in the future. All [...]
Archive for the ‘Ottawa’ category
Weird Rogers 3G network error
2008/12/16Free eBook on ALT.NET
2008/09/27It is always a nice surprise to find something that is free and actually useful on the Net . Like this one: a fellow Ottawan Karl Sequin wrote and generously made available as free download “Foundations of programming” eBook. He touches many topics of various levels from high level design concepts (dependency injection) to low [...]
Rogers, iPhone and Conspiracy Theory
2008/07/10It was very interesting to observe during last few weeks – since WWDC announcement – the wave of expectations building up here in Canada. After all, we will finally officially have the iPhone and will be allowed to join the family of first-category nations, legally iPhonized, blessed by his Steveness himself. Selection of Rogers as [...]
No words necessary. No DRM either …
2008/06/15On White Stuff and Other Disasters
2008/03/13Guess what are three most useful tools without which no proper Ottawa household can exist ? Snow shovel, snow pusher and car window ice scratcher. If the number was 4, the next would be snowblower. Up to yesterday, our family was in safe position being equipped with several shovels, four or five scratchers and one [...]
Unify Tour 2007 and Open Source
2007/04/19This week was full with attending the demos and workshops. On Tuesday, I spent half day on the Microsoft Unify Tour 2007. I planned to be there full day but an important business meeting made me change the plan. Fortunately, the sessions should be available recorded on the Web, so I will be able to [...]
Sales as Con Art – or welcome to Direct Energy flat rate plan
2006/12/28During over 8 years living on this continent I’ve developed reasonably thick skin in dealing with business calls, unsolicited mailings and other annoyances of aggressive selling. I was pretty sure nothing can make me really upset. Up until yesterday. Thanks to amazing capability of the Direct Energy sales force who does not take No for [...]
