Category: news
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iOS 5 = Win, iCloud = Fail
Yesterday, Apple released an update to its iPhone/iPad operating system, iOS 5, alongside its new backup/syncing/interweb thing, iCloud. iOS 5 iOS 5 is beautiful. You can read a complete list of new stuff elsewhere, but some of the new features really improve the devices that iOS powers. Notifications were a useless mess before, but now…
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Steve Jobs
There is a famous story about Steve Jobs luring Pepsi president John Sculley to work for Apple. In Sculley’s words: “And then he looked up at me and just stared at me with the stare that only Steve Jobs has and he said do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your…
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The Banana Incident: Perpetuating Racism by Suppressing Satire
A few nights ago, a hockey fan threw a banana at a Wayne Simmonds, a black hockey player, during a game at the John Labatt Centre here in London Ontario. The symbolism of it was probably intentional, and it’s a disgusting act of racism. I hope the perpetrator is caught and brought to justice (even…
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