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Technology

Palm Flameout

February 25, 2010

One-time tech darling Palm, after a surge of interest, two new handsets, and a new software platform last year, looks to be spiraling rapidly towards death. Even with cash injections from Bono and Elevation Partners, an eroding market position is equivalent to a death sentence for a company without the capability of scaling up research [...]

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Stem Cell Transplant Cures Leukemia Patient’s HIV

February 20, 2010

The article speaks for itself. An HIV+ person received a stem cell transplant to treat leukemia. The transplant was from someone with natural resistance to HIV. The donor’s HIV resistance was conferred upon the recipient: A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a [...]

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Network Neutrality: Simple image explains what it is & why its important

October 29, 2009

Network neutrality, bandwidth shaping, megabits, the FCC, and the CRTC. NN is a confusing, acronym heavy mess that’s ill understood by policy makers and consumers alike (the FCC doesn’t get it). The simple image below explains it nicely. Right now, its implicit that our choice of internet provider (Shaw) doesn’t impact our choice of, for [...]

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Shitasmia

September 28, 2009

“It’s so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment which I like to call “shitasmia”. It not only creates this emotion: it defines it. It’s the most shitasmic cultural artefact in history.” [The Guardian]

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Microsoft Courier: the uber tablet that will (hopefully) replace my laptop

September 23, 2009

This looks pretty sweet, I’m not afraid to say. I love the iPhone, but the small screen form factor becomes tiring when trying to conduct real business for an extended time. Lugging around a laptop is a pain, and a netbook just feels unsatisfactory as either a productivity machine or a communication device. A small, [...]

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New Democrats, Old Economy

June 15, 2009

In early 2009, I started trying to rally the political will to make Manitoba a globe-leading, high-tech, green datacenter hub. This post tells the story of how I quickly discovered that Manitoba under the NDP had had its chance to be just that – and let it pass by, missing millions of dollars in investment, [...]

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Creigh Deeds, the Net, Google, and the New Rules of Politics: Time for a CPC strategy

June 10, 2009

Could one secret to Creigh Deeds’ stunning triumph over his better-known and better-funded opponents Terry McAuliffe and Jim Moran in yesterday’s Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia have been a tactical Google ad buy aimed at voters in that state’s Washington DC suburbs? As the dust settles from Deeds’ stunning demolition of his opponents in yesterday’s [...]

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Harvest Wind Power from Electrical Poles

June 10, 2009

French designers/engineers have proposed retrofitting existing transmission towers with wind turbines as a means of generating green power without requiring more land to be ceded to wind farms (part of the Next Generation competition). The pictures below speak for themselves. I imagine the prairies in particular would have vast stretches of power lines that would [...]

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