Being on the bleeding edge of technology is quite difficult and time consuming. I have a Blackberry 7250 which, when I bought it, was only capable of connecting to the 1X network on Bell Mobility. There have been enhancements to the network and they’re now offering 1xEV or EVDO network capabilities in the GTA. This is cool because it’s damn fast and since their network is always expanding,...

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     Seriously, who dials numbers in the wrong area code these days? Nearly everywhere you call, you have to dial at least ten digits anywhere in Ontario, never mind those long distance calls where it’s mandatory to dial at least eleven. That’s why I wonder how come I get about 20-30 wrong numbers per month on my 416-848 exchange numbers which have 905 counterparts. Are you just guessing at the...

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     My key just broke in the lock. It’s because the door is too tight at the bottom and too loose at the top, so it has to be too tight in the middle and if you don’t pull on the door, you’re exerting a lot of force on that puny metal key. Why am I inside so quickly you might be asking yourself? Well, because when I got up this morning I put my Leatherman on my belt, I just turned out the...

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     Every show uses Cisco 7900 series IP phones. 24, in the data centre. The Office (American version), in the office. House, everywhere in the hospital. Grey’s Anatomy, everywhere in the hosipital. On another note, where do the House/Grey’s writers get off constantly stealing eachother’s story lines? We’ve seen the ones with the girls who have testis and countless others. C’mon...

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     I kinda knew this was coming. Google Talk is migrating into Gmail. When you have a conversation it’s logged (if you enable the setting) in the Chats section and everything you talked about will be searchable. This is great for all of those times when I know someone sent me a URL to something or a slice of code but I can’t remember what it was. I was also thinking that since Google is now...

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