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I Got a Colonoscopy

May 8, 2026

The Practicality of 3D Printing

May 1, 2026

My Encounter With a Fake iPhone, circa 2026

February 23, 2026

Book: The Future of Truth

February 13, 2026

Revisiting John Candy

January 19, 2026

The Remote Access Tool Problem (Starring ScreenConnect)

October 18, 2025

Doug Ford Calls an Early Ontario Election

January 28, 2025

Are "Basic" Economy Plane Tickets a Scam?

January 22, 2025

My iPhone 12 was Stolen in Downtown Toronto. Here's What Happened

September 13, 2021

What Makes Your Writing Valuable?

July 17, 2019

How to Get Back to Writing a Book After a Long Time

June 12, 2019

Having Growth Mindset for Smaller-Sized IT Consultants

July 12, 2018

Do I need a ticketing system?

May 21, 2018

Building a Better Mousetrap: Can Craigslist and Kijiji be Improved Upon?

February 22, 2017

Writing Email Like a Tinder Profile

February 10, 2017

Watermarking and Captioning Photos

January 13, 2017

7 Essential Travel Tips for Everyone

November 25, 2016

Airlines Are About to Make Flying Even More Painful

November 19, 2016

Lastpass Sold - The Shrinking Password Manager Universe

October 25, 2015

Contest: Win 1 of 5 Weight Scale + Measuring Tape

July 3, 2015

8 Best Toronto Area Places to Charge An Electric Car (And the Worst)

June 5, 2015

"Popcorn Time" Can Now Run in the Browser

May 27, 2015

Apple Finally Offers an iPhone 6 Lightning Dock

May 23, 2015

Redefining Viral

May 21, 2015

Microsoft Releases List of Windows 10 Versions

May 20, 2015

10 Serious Phrase-Crimes Committed Against Your IT Person

September 5, 2014

Why I Think the Tim Hortons / Burger King Merger is a Bad Fit

September 2, 2014

Shomi, The Streaming Service From Rogers and Shaw Should Raise Concerns

August 28, 2014

App Idea: Community-Based Micro Task Crowdsourcing Called "Runner"

August 27, 2014

Making Sense Of Google's HTTPS Ranking Signal, And What Matters

August 25, 2014

The WordPress Relative Link Conundrum

August 11, 2014

Why "Disruption" and "Erosion" Are Lethal To IT Service Companies (And What To Do About Them)

July 28, 2014

Google Buys Songza

July 2, 2014

Commenting Systems Aren't Broken, They're Lame

June 26, 2014

Dropping TrueCrypt? I Look At Some Alternatives

June 16, 2014

DynDNS Killing Free Dynamic DNS Service

April 28, 2014

Windows XP Support Ends - What To Know

April 11, 2014

We're About To See A Serious Battery Disruption

April 2, 2014

Why Is There No Good KeePass Client on OS X?

February 13, 2014

Google Gets Wise To Guest Blogging For SEO

January 27, 2014

Curved TVs are coming, and here's why you'd want one

January 23, 2014

Would Windows 8 Have Succeeded As Two Versions?

January 13, 2014

2014 CES: What I'm looking forward to

January 7, 2014

As 2013 ends, I look forward to, and predict 2014

December 26, 2013

Count Your Coins For Free: Smart Tools To Keep More Money

December 3, 2013

A Refreshing Context

October 4, 2013

All signs point to an iPhone 5S fingerprint reader

September 9, 2013

Why you don't need to delete Facebook friends

September 2, 2013

Electronic communications: The calamity of choice

August 23, 2013

The Rise Of The Heavy-Handed Provider

August 22, 2013

Why don't we have an online sale verification system?

August 14, 2013

The disappearing HotspotVPN

August 12, 2013

NeverWet: Superhydrophobic or Snake Oil?

August 2, 2013

InoReader Takes a Nap

July 18, 2013

We Need to Bring Cheques Into the 21st Century

July 5, 2013

Big list of Google Reader RSS Reader Alternatives

July 3, 2013

How To Be Wrong About RSS

April 29, 2013

Was Google Reader Loved?

April 12, 2013

Finally, Chromebooks released in Canada

March 19, 2013

Logmein Delivers Knockout Blow To Its Free Users

March 5, 2013

How Easy Is It To Hijack A Whatsapp User's Account?

February 1, 2013

Life Shouldn't Be Fair, It Should Be Agreeable

January 31, 2013

The Mental Health Panacea?

January 15, 2013

The Telephone Network As Profit

January 10, 2013

10 Most Important Technology Stories Of 2012

December 27, 2012

My Grade For 2012, And Predicting 2013

December 21, 2012

Tablets Are Waiting For The Web

December 12, 2012

The Looming Office 2013 Pricing Debacle

November 30, 2012

Black Friday Deals We're Watching

November 21, 2012

Uhm, Sir, Your Piracy Is Showing

October 31, 2012

Can We Be Protected From Internet Thieves?

October 27, 2012

Windows Déjà vu, Or Just Stupid?

October 24, 2012

Fighting Overload By Being The "Information Omnivore"

October 20, 2012

TELUS, The Fee Removal "White Knight"?

October 16, 2012

Rogers To Choose Gemalto For Mobile NFC payments

October 10, 2012

Consulting - What Do You Do With Downtime?

October 9, 2012

Consulting: The Enemy Of My Enemy Lacks Clarity

September 14, 2012

Confessions Of An Active Adopter

August 10, 2012

Consulting: The Circle Of Empathy

August 8, 2012

The Fall, And Fall Of The Blackberry Playbook [Update]

August 4, 2012

3D Printing: Scary, Or A New Frontier?

July 27, 2012

Consulting: How Long Can You Keep Working?

June 14, 2012

It's True: Microsoft's Windows IS At War With Itself

June 1, 2012

The Dark Side Of Craigslist And Kijiji Buying

May 29, 2012

Why So Slow? Blame Jevons Paradox, Bufferbloat And Cruft

May 25, 2012

Saving Money On An Apple Power Adaptor: Is It Possible?

April 16, 2012

Buying an iPad Now?: New, Used, or Refurbished

March 14, 2012

Why Are Blogger And Analytics Stats So Different?

March 12, 2012

Rules Of craigslist: For Sellers

March 9, 2012

Rules of Craigslist: For Buyers

March 5, 2012

It's Leap Day!

February 29, 2012

Insync May Get You To Ditch DROPBOX For Good

February 15, 2012

Shit IT Guys Say [Video]

February 1, 2012

Canada: Cambridge Life Solutions - Debt Negotiation Or A Scam?

January 24, 2012

Contest: Win A Free Hard Disk Drive!

January 19, 2012

DirectDial: A story Of A Difficult Experience [Updated]

December 27, 2011

2011: A Year Of Predictions

December 22, 2011

Killer App Idea: Multi Hosted Cloud Storage Interface

May 24, 2011

Contest: Win A Sony PRS-650 eBook Reader!

March 8, 2011

WiFi Alternatives In The Home Other Than PowerLine Networking?

March 7, 2011

Year In Review: I Look at Technology In 2010

December 22, 2010

Self-Employment: The Dark Side Of A Romantic Idea

December 19, 2010

Blogs Of The Past: Provincial Taxes And Computer Service In Ontario

December 15, 2010

CWL Tech Weekly - Week Of October 22nd

October 22, 2010

6 Google Reader Feature Ideas

September 15, 2010

A Feature Idea For Google Reader - Keep The Stream Centered

March 24, 2010

CONTEST (2010) Update: A Winner Has Been Chosen!

February 24, 2010

Update: CONTEST (2010)! Make a guess, win a Netbook!

February 16, 2010

2010 CONTEST - Make a guess, win a Netbook!

February 9, 2010

My predictions for the next decade

January 21, 2010

Getting ready for Windows 7 - from IT Department's perspective

June 4, 2009

Ever heard of Holding Actions?

August 17, 2008

A Serious Problem, Passive Business Shadiness Needs To Be Exposed!

April 6, 2008

On The Human Side Of Moore's Law

March 22, 2008

Catching the Soap in the Shower, Crackberries

February 10, 2008

Absolutley useless facts.. :)

February 6, 2008

The Holy Grail of Phone Convergence?

February 6, 2008

What exactly does BLOG mean anyway?

February 6, 2008

Drop the Double-ewe, double-ewe, double-ewe?

February 6, 2008

What do you take with your coffee?

February 6, 2008

A Nasty Windows NT/2000/XP Bug

July 31, 2002