Toronto’s tech sector is on fire!
When I first arrived in Toronto in 2004 I found very little in the way of Tech community. I was told that the Dot Com Crash had pretty much annihilated every shred of enthusiasm this city had left to offer.
Today, in 2008, there’s no doubt in my mind that […]
Legal precedent states that your ISP is a Common Carrier. This means that they are not responsible for policing what kind of packets they deliver to your house, nor do they have any right to go poking around in the packets delivered to you. So, if you want to read the political views of an ousted dissonant your ISP is not responsible for enforcing that rule. Their role is to get the information from one place to another, with neither interest nor responsibility for the content.
In the same week, Bell and Rogers have hit the Canadian public hard, imposing limits on how we use the internet.
DSL: Not only has Bell imposed this on their own customers but also on their wholesale resellers, organisations such as Teksavvy, who they have started traffic-shaping, cutting off many of the newest services […]
Toronto Wiki Tuesdays got a brief mention in today’s National Post
‘‘I will be heading to Rower’s Pub to this month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday, Toronto’s dedicated Wiki event. We’ve had some great topics, talking about how using a wiki efficiently creates knowledge, how we can use them to couple thinking to the output of systems […]
Shove over Rogers, Bell and Telus.
I’ve been long griping about the Canadian Telcos and their stupid, exorbitant data rates:
[Canadian oligopolistic Telcos] will only voluntarily drop their prices if they thought that they’d make more money by doing so. Their duty is to please their shareholders, not the public, though they could stand to make much […]
In the same the theme as my posting Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please, my friend Thomas Purves just posted the above stark graphic contrasting the rates people living in Canada pay compared to others around the world. In the following I summarize an investigation of my own and what I think are […]
In terms of transit, one of the things that shocked me most when I moved to Toronto was the lack of suburban railways, especially compared to London, England and Melbourne, Australia, two places I’ve to date spent much of my working life.
Toronto has corridors already for trains, use these for the city, not just to […]
Rogers just credited me back the $57.55 they charged me today for just over 1 MB of data on my phone:
I didn’t have a plan for data but, ouch.
I’m not going to judge Rogers for this, but, to quote my friends:
what a cash grab..
yikes
and:
holy x*#@
And I said to customer service:
I had already told you (in […]
I had a great time (and many scotches) last night at the Robbie Burns Society of Toronto
Here’s a little video clip, typical of the singing and joking, taken with my Treo and uploaded to YouTube.
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/trends_graph_e.html?yyz&unit=m reported Toronto weather this morning:
The funny thing is, the place I felt coldest living was in Melbourne, Australia while an MBA student.
Why? Well, our house there had practically no insulation and really poor heating.
