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Archive for January, 2008

OS X Brilliance

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Sorry, I can’t find the video, I closed the browser window long ago, but I found the most brilliant idea on Youtube that I wanted to share with what few other Mac users I have on this site.
Up until now one of my greatest sources of frustration with The Dock is that there isn’t enough […]

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Superbowl Ads

Monday, January 28th, 2008

This weekend should bring the usual assortment of Super Bowl ads. This is one of my all-time favourites from the past.

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Anybody Want A Vanity E-Mail Address?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

We all know that “the name you want” is never available on Yahoo or Gmail or Hotmail. The hallmark of those services seems to be e-mail addresses with huge strings of numbers and weird spellings in them.But what if you could have yourfirstname@ instead? Well, you probably could if the domain was @poweredbycoffee.net.
I […]

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I Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I don’t often click advertisements on websites, but I saw something that caught my eye and it looked like a Canadian business, so I decided to take a look around.
I’m not sure I’m going to buy anything from them, but I spotted this at the top of their website and burst out laughing.  I couldn’t […]

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The Cliffs Notes Version Of The Stevenote

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

For those of you who are puzzled as to what exactly happened yesterday at Mac Expo, my good friend Veronica Belmont (and her team of trained chimpanzees at Mahalo Daily) have produced this video, which summarizes the 90 minute keynote address by Steve Jobs in 60 seconds.

[P.S. It amuses me greatly that I posted […]

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Stupidity Knows No Age

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

The story the other day (in the last post) about the 85 year old was pretty funny.
More recently though, the street racing law found itself being enforced at the other end of the spectrum.
An 18-year old with a G2 license was (presumably) on the 401 between Chatham and Windsor in his parents’ new Chrysler 300 […]

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Law Enforcement Friday

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Rarely do I get two great stories that are so close to home.
The clear winner of the two — no pun intended — has got to be the 85 year old who had the distinction of being the first person in his age bracket to be charged under the new street racing law. Driving […]

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