“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]
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, long-battery, touch tablet like this would fit the middle ground between phone and laptop perfectly.
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, [...]