A lifelong CBC 1 AM talk radio fan, I stopped listening when I switched to podcasts.
Happily, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) is not ad-supported so they can easily make the same content archives available on-line. Check iTunes. They have recently added a number of shows including my favourite: Pop Culture: Definitely Not The Opera (DNTO).
About time.
Congratulations to Biota Spring Water for marketing a the world’s first compostable bottle made out of corn.
We need to get these to the developing world, especially India, as quickly as possible.
Watch a cool video of a bottle disintegrating over 90 days on the Biota site.
For a change I am looking forward to the next version of Office.
Sounds like the evil empire is finally getting wise to user experience.
Microsoft assessed 300,000 hours of video to see how folks used their blogware. Not surprisingly, people used only about 20% of the features.
Drop-down menus will be reduced. Tabs and contextual options (like Photoshop) will replace them.
Yes. Clippy is completely gone! I always felt that lame paperclip was a perfect symbol for just how wrong Microsoft manages to do things.
1st working model (OLPC), originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson.
The much awaited US$100 laptop is here.
You can buy one for $300, donating the other two to children around the world.
The best hope for this planet is to get people communicating and educated.
In December 2005, YouTube launched. Today they show well over 40 million videos a day including some on this blog.
YouTube is much more popular than Google Video & Yahoo Video Search and growing faster.
I’m sold. Video has been a hassle on the internet since the beginning. The clips on Comedy Central are very frustrating, for example. YouTube is successful because it WORKS. Good job.
Interview with the YouTube founders – May 15, 2006
Now, does vimeo.com put out higher quality video?
If you are looking for good examples of how government bureaucratic monopolies do not work, try booking a campground at a National Park.
Websites are out-of-date, or URLs have changed. Telephone numbers changed. Emai ignored.
What incentive does an over-worked, under-paid seasonal employee have to help you get your campsite booked?
Well, the good news is that Parks Canada is finally trying to implement an on-line booking service.
Campground Reservation Service
So far, it mostly doesn’t work. It’s clumsy and inconsistent. But it’s a start!
Google is putting in free (ad supported) wireless internet in San Francisco. Can my city be far behind?
I believe access to information will set us free.
Now … when will Google release their own version of the internet?
Are you using IE to read this page?
The NEW version #7 for Windows is now available for download from Microsoft.
Go for it. It is a huge improvement over the old version.
You need some time to try the dozens of new features, however.
I still feel Firefox is better. But I would use both browsers if I was forced to use a Windows machine.
(The new IE is not available for Apple. On Mac I use Safari 70% of the time, Firefox 30%.)
Tiger or Michael Jordan?
Who is the tougher competitor?
If Tiger can stay at the top another decade or two, I’ll give him the nod.
But there’s always the chance Tiger will drop out of the tour to raise a family and concentrate on his charities.
TWLC, for example.
Recommended students are invited to a FREE after-school high tech facility in California. Many of the activities were added to the curriculum simply because that was what the kids wanted to do.
Needless to say, there is a golf school attached.
Check out the Tiger Woods Learning Center.
“Positive Psychology,” has become the most popular course at Harvard — superceding “Intro to Economics”.
A controversial professor is teaching kids that getting rich does not make you happy. And they are buying it!
Rick McCharles 