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Archive for June, 2007

Geist points out Entwistle/Telus gaffe

Posted: Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 @ 7:26 am in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

A priceless note on the nonsense of our incumbent telco(s). Michael Geist whom I’ve referred to a number of times on our Canadian approach to copyright and intellectual property, recently put up this post: Telus on the Spectrum Auction It’s even more amusing since Telus has blamed BCE’s “bidding process” as being unsatisfactory as the [...]

There's another assumption that Joel skipped on fonts…

Posted: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 @ 4:47 pm in Mac Fun, Tech | No Comments »

While reading a long-ago post by Mr. Joel Spolsky (WELL worth reading BTW)Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering – Joel on Software I noted a few bits of interest. For one thing, I don’t really notice the blur in the “g” or “e”, but I do see that the Apple “i” is blurry without doubt. [...]

How to completely kill the Canadian telecomm industry

Posted: Friday, June 22nd, 2007 @ 7:54 am in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

The audacity of the statements by the CEO of Telus at the articleTelus CEO says merged Telus-BCE could keep wireless is absolutely ludicrous, and based on the past actions of the acquisitions in the cellular industry in Calgary, complete nonsense. Having been a ClearNET customer, which was acquired by Telus, at which point my rates [...]