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Editorial
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_ January 20, 2014_ Kevin Costain

Canada Post makes huge changes, becomes even less relevant

For most of us, this means worse service, for a more expensive rate. This is what a company looks like when has no idea how to change beyond reactionary measures. For all Canadians, this should be incredibly disappointing for a service that forms such an important part of our society’s infrastructure.

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Streisand's Malibu house
_ October 28, 2013_ Kevin Costain

LTD Inc. Tells Us To Edit Content

A recent blog I posted about a company I can’t name doing a thing I can’t talk about – was entirely forced offline because of a legal threat. The threats keep coming; This time from what appeared to be a Multi-Level-Marketing firm named Leadership Team Development Inc. (LTD).

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Editorial
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_ August 30, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Why don’t we have an open source peer to peer remote control tool?

If you’re a remote control user, you’re likely familiar with the two-step process of opening a port, creating a gateway server and connecting. This keeps your need to open the network to a minimum while allowing access to all systems internally. Why don’t we have an open-source equivalent to this kind of tool?

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_ August 15, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Apple’s next moves invite madness without clarity

Everyone seems to know what’s coming next (often representing it as truth), yet Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet. Often I’m told “The new iPhone is going to have this feature”, as if they forgot to read the “rumour” part of the news.

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_ August 9, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Wait, what? Being Good And Useful Is Apocalyptic?

It seems abundantly clear to these folks that using Windows XP past available patches is akin to something like an extinction event. Seriously?

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Editorial
_ August 7, 2013_ Kevin Costain

How NOT to approach a blogger

I wrote a post based on a fellow named Kash Shahzada. With that, I took some time to look into what his company was, and more about the individual that was publicly available on the Internet. Recently, he’s asked me to take down some of those details.

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Editorial
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_ July 5, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Synnex and the Pain of Hardware Distribution

Today, I wanted to call out one such painful experience with Synnex and try to understand if this is a systemic problem, or if more is at work. To a company like Synnex, CWL is clearly small beans, but failures in customer service are a clear concern.

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Editorial
_ April 10, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Facebook Home Has Issues, But Privacy Isn’t One Of Them

If you give that to Facebook, privacy isn’t your problem. But, Facebook Home appears to have other very concerning things you should think about. I take a look at this very interesting development from Facebook.

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_ April 2, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Fork you, Facebook Phone

Facebook’s coming event on April 4th coined “Come See Our New Home On Android”. You knew it would never happen on April 1st, that’s for sure. Lots of folks are saying that this is actually a “Facebook Phone”.

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Editorial
_ February 15, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Wrong, Right, Experts and Trolls

I’m approached by many who are thankful for the work, but there are a few that seem to see this process differently. While speaking to one such person, I thought of what it meant to offer help, what makes me think I can do it – and where trolls fit into this process

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