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Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Thomas Purves

The motto of the CRTC, Canada’s telcom regulator is “Communications in the Public Interest”. Right. If you live in Canada, write to your MP. The CRTC, as an institution, needs to be taken out and shot.* This chart charts the … Continue reading →

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A Prehistory of Twitter

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Every new media retrieves an archetype of a dead one. With the fuss over social presence at the moment, I recalled to how I first tried to achieve twitter. Twitter for me retrieves my very first blog which was nothing more than a log of msn messenger handles. And one point, there was even a semi-functional rss feed of this thanks to Michael Aird. Little personal moments at 80 characters or less (Twitter is generous by comparison).

A time capsule, after the jump:
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Things that don’t work in Vista 64bit edition

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Thomas Purves

Any native Vista x64 applications, because basically they don’t exist (about every app I use has to run in 32bit compatibility mode) Winamp Java applets (java installs but most of the time just doesn’t work) Cisco webconferences (requires java) Azereus … Continue reading →

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