Done with Cable

In what could be described as “the straw that broke the camel’s back” I decided yesterday to never, ever pay for cable TV again.
Unfortunately, Primus isn’t working out good enough as our telephone service, so, loathe to pay the phone company, we’re going with Rogers digital home phone service. Its marginally cheaper than a normal [...]

Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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For sale

One 4GB iPhone. Like new. Anyone want it?
Update: Actually, on second thought, if AT&T is charging $30 a month for data, I don’t even want to know what Rogers is charging. The GPS would be really nice, but I think I’ll save my money and just get a Garmin or a TomTom. If we still [...]

Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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List of things that don’t work properly in Canada…

- My iPhone: No EDGE (unless I have a couple thousand dollars a month I want to give to Rogers to use their stupid data network) means all of my phone’s advanced features are disabled unless I’m near an open WiFi hotspot.
- My XBox 360: Movie rentals cost nearly twice as much here, and if [...]

Posted on June 8th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Behold the power of my new work computer!

So since I’m working off site, I need to take a little piece of the office with me. Rather than load up 4 physical server machines, my boss decided it was best to buy me one big one, which will run 4 virtual servers on it.
So we got me one of these. A PowerEdge 1900.
The [...]

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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I Hate Ma Bell

The only thing more annoying than dealing with Ontario Health Care is dealing with Ontario Internet Providers. It is unfathomably difficult to get uncapped, un-shaped Internet in Ontario. You cannot imagine.
In short, there are only two services (lower than T1) that offer it. Rogers Business High Speed, and Bell Business Ultra High Speed. No independent [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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R2D2 Projector

Had we been unable to have children… I would have settled for one of these instead.
Make sure you watch the video, its very drool-worthy!

Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Photoshop Ideas?

For those into Photoshop, but who don’t consider themselves geeky enough to check the other blog, I put up a little tutorial on Codepoetry on a new trick I figured out and have been using a lot lately for the photos on the site. Check it out if you happen to be sitting around… waiting [...]

Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Things I Like

Literally, we’re sitting around waiting for something to happen. We can’t plan any outings, or date nights, we can’t even travel too far from home. We just sit here, watching TV, playing with Ben, and waiting for something to break… literally.
So to pass the time, here are some geeky gadgets we’ve recently acquired or fallen [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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The War is Over! (not that one)

And so ends the nearly irrelevant next-gen optical media war:
HD-DVD Death Made Official
This time it was Sony with the inferior system (or at least inferior spec) for the win. Maybe this will do something to lessen the pain of the Beta/VHS war.
I think the above article is prescient though — between upconverting my DVDs (which [...]

Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Things You’ll See in Value Village 10 Years From Now…

The other day we found a beautiful little program called Delicious Library, which lets us put a visual face on our expanding collection of digital (and some physical) media. If you haven’t seen it, and you have a Mac, you should definitely check it out.
It got me thinking though, as we used our Firewire camcorder [...]

Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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