So an Uber self-driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona. It was bound to happen sooner or later, of course. Maybe there are some people out there who didn’t think so… but you can’t be someone who drives ...
I honestly can’t remember the last “great” film I’ve watched. Sure there have been a couple standouts this year – Zombieland was entertaining (if a bit shallow), The Hangover was mildly funny (if that sort of thing is your bag), ...
Funny story on TechCrunch today. Seems like Bing’s popularity is on the decline now, just a few days after its launch and short lived run at #2 search engine. Looking at the StatCounter chart, it’s interesting to see how Bing’s ...
A quick Google search turned up nothing – yet something foul is afoot with soy lattes at Starbucks in Canada. The soy milk has changed. And if my hunch is correct, they’re now using the same garbage soy milk that ...
In a previous post I criticized TransLink decisions to use Google Transit while forgoing any kind of proper mobile application for looking up schedules. Now, thanks to Google and the latest release of Google Maps for Mobile, I have one ...
On the bus on my way to work this morning there was a piece in the “24 Hours”? daily in which the reporter asked both men and women how easy it was to meet other people in the city. (I ...
Or so seems to be the mentality of the officers who tasered Robert Dziekanski to death at YVR. It’s hard to watch the video (linked from this CBC story) and not be at least a little outraged at the officers ...
Is anyone really surprised by the latest headlines from Radiohead’s recent In Rainbows release? Fans were invited to put their own price on the 10 MP3 files that made up In Rainbows, from nothing to ?100. But internet monitoring company ...
In case you haven’t heard, TransLink trip planning is now a part of the Google Transit beta app. It’s the only Canadian transit system partipating so far, no less. Well forgive me for not giving TransLink a big pat on ...
I’ve been building web sites for a long time… Long enough to remember, for example, creating pages for IE 3 with Microsoft’s ActiveX Control Pad. Unless you were a real geek back then, you probably have no idea what I’m ...
