Twittersquatting

Posted on March 23, 2008 by Thomas Purves

http://twitter.com/newyork taken
http://twitter.com/losangeles taken
http://twitter.com/tokyo taken
http://twitter.com/calgary available
http://twitter.com/sex taken
http://twitter.com/sexy taken
http://twitter.com/sexkitten taken
http://twitter.com/women available
http://twitter.com/men taken
http://twitter.com/hotgaynerds available
http://twitter.com/snowfurbikinibabes available
http://twitter.com/sports taken
http://twitter.com/cycling taken
http://twitter.com/football taken
http://twitter.com/rockpapersisors available
http://twitter.com/business taken
http://twitter.com/pleasure available
http://twitter.com/microsoft taken
http://twitter.com/cornflakes taken
http://twitter.com/IBM taken (by me) for sale. cheap 🙂

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What’s the deal with the slowness of the volume slider in Windows?

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Thomas Purves

One of the fit and finish features of windows that’s long bugged is the volume control. Why is it when when you click the volume thingy in the system tray it takes a second to popup the volume slider. It’s one dimension of data people, and a handful of pixels.

If you want to adjust the volume coming out of your computer that’s typically something you want to do more or less right away, instead of in a second.

Somehow, in one context, my computer could churn out millions of polygons per frame at 30 frames persecond of high realistic 3d visualized games. But meanwhile, in old 2d windows, with Gigs of untaxed ram whole extra cpu cores in reserve… but WHOA drawing that volume slider on the screen, that’s gotta to take a second.

What gives?

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Startup Fuel

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Thomas Purves

Rick Segal is doing a good thing. He’s organizing VC round tables around the country for start-ups offering conversation and “Sample Term sheets, documents, business plans, PowerPoints”. I caught an earlier iteration of a similar event by Rick and some others a year ago. Let me tell you this stuff is gold. If you’re a technologist, even if you are a commerce grad, they don’t teach you this stuff in school. And the opaque world of term sheets and finance structures its damn hard to learn this stuff any other way. The event is also free, I’m sure it will be poplular, it’s worth your time.

StartupCamp Toronto is also back. This isn’t just financing pitches, it’s a full-on public debugging session on your business model. Fun stuff. StartupCampToronto2 is happening at CIX on April 29, here’s how to apply to present.

UPDATEWow Rick wasn’t kidding, the VC roundtable is a serious cross Canada event. Here’s the full list of dates:
Halifax Monday, April 14, 2008 8:00 am – 10:30 am
Moncton Monday, April 14, 2008 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
St. John’s Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:00 pm – 7:00 am
Ottawa Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:30 am ET – 12:30 pm ET
Montreal Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:30 pm ET – 6:30 pm ET
Toronto Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 8:30 am ET
Victoria Monday, April 21, 2008 8:00 am PT – 10:00 am PT
Vancouver Monday, April 21, 2008 4:00 pm PT – 6:00 pm PT
Edmonton Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:00 am MT – 10:00 am MT
Calgary Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:30 pm MT – 5:30 pm MT
Regina Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:00 am CT – 10:00 am CT
Winnipeg Friday, April 25, 2008 12:00 pm CT – 2:00 pm CT
Guelph Monday, April 28, 2008 4:00 pm ET – 6:00 pm ET

Sign up here

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