I’m waiting at Gate 20A in Ottawa International Airport waiting for my balsa wood and rubber band flight to Montreal. The concourse has two open WiFi networks. One requires you to pay CAD$9.95 for a day’s access, the other is free.
Which would you choose?
An abridged version of this year’s trip to Canada. No trip to Niagara Falls unfortunately, but I’m expecting to go next year instead.
Kingston was the first capital of Canada, before Canadian Confederation. Situated at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, it relies on the public sector for its employment.
The British colony of Upper Canada built a fort because they anticipated an attack by the United States. It is undergoing continued restoration and today acts a tourist attraction. The Fort Henry Guard founded in 1938 re-enacts the life of the fort, made up of students from the Kingston Area.
Lying at the west end of Upper Rideau Lake, Westpoint is a cute village with lots of craft shops. There’s a public wharf which costs $2 a day to dock at.
Almonte, now part of Mississippi Mills, is a quiet tourist town, notable for its spanning of the Mississippi River. I can highly recommend a trip to The Ironworks Pub and Restaurant.
This is a small town on the Rideau River.
The analysts said it couldn’t happen. It just did: every full time US Apple employee, and those temporary staff who have worked at Apple for more than one year is going to get a free 8GB iPhone by the end of July.
Perhaps I’m being melodramatic, but you not only have an entire enterprise using the product, but a great testing ground for future developments.
The Enterprise likes to say “no” to everything because this maintains the status quo. Saying “no” is easy. “No” requires no thought, no effort, and results in no change. I’ve worked in two companies that followed this path: neither of which exists today.
According to a third installment of David Pogue’s iPhone FAQs, this time for ‘Often-Asked iPhone Questions’, there are two tiny issues that might hinder my adoption of this device:
I can just about cope with the first, but the second one is a bit of a problem. “Ah,” I hear you exclaim, “but surely a web application could store the passwords for you”. To which I would answer, “yes, then you’d only need to know one password.” However, there’s no way of copying, cutting or pasting on the iPhone.
That’s not too much of a problem, because most passwords are short and can be remembered.
But what about those WEP or WPA passwords that you’ll need at hand to get onto your private WiFi network in the first place? That’s okay because the iPhone remembers these.
Update: PassPack looks like a good solution to the password problem. It also has auto-login functionality, which is going to improve in the upcoming release.
I’ve deliberately kept away from American Doll Posse for the past five weeks to give it a little time to wander around my head. Today I rediscovered it, concluding that it’s not half bad: Pip’s songs are actually okay, the guitars are actually okay – but the intro to Secret Spell still gives me lemons. Body and Soul puts in the best rock-guitar-piano performance of the album by stomping around the house quite dismissively.
Bob Appleseed is back, this time with a video demonstrating how to use the iPhone keyboard.
There’s some very clever software in there – particularly when it comes to anticipating your next keypress and determining what word you meant to type. Check out the final demonstration for how badly Bob types ‘reservation’.
If you need to move the text cursor to some other place, the iPhone selectively magnifies the area your cursor is near whilst you drag it to the new position.
Here are the first four, out of embargo, tonight:
I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating that Impossible Princess is Kylie’s best album. Whilst not quite a one horse race, it remains several furlongs ahead of the competition. Simply, it’s a perfect conflagration of musical styles.
This opening track is a terrifying journey into orchestral breakbeat.
Throwing Muses:
Sweet nothing
Sweet dreams
Serene
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