Fredericton Geek Speak

Today I received a phone call by Rebecca Lau from Global News requesting an interview to discuss my opinion on Bell and Telus’s move to start charging their customers for inbound text messages. She tracked me down via this blog and noticed that I write about technology a bit so naturally I knew […]

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Finally !!! The Spore creature creator is up for download!  This is the first PC game that I’ve been excited about in years.  I expect that this game will pull me off of my Xbox 360 for a few months!
Download the Spore Creature Creator here. 
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I hate cutting and pasting articles, but this is important if you’re against the RIAA suing grandmothers and children over downloading music in Canada….the worst part is that none of this money even gets back to the artists.

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 11, 2008 […]

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I’m not sure how severe the problem is, but I couldn’t log into Skype this morning to have a morning meeting with my boss and co-workers. We had to revert back to using the ancient telephone to have our morning conference call. For more info on the Skype network issue see their statement […]

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I’ve discovered a couple new fun podcasts in the past couple weeks which i’d like to share:
GALACTICAST is a weekly comedy show parodying all the worlds of geek-dom. From their apartment studio, Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan (along with the other Galacticast players) mash-up their love of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, comics, and video-games to bring […]

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 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061027-8095.html
Court says neutral party must examine hard drive in file-sharing case 
It has been a busy couple of months in the world of music file-sharing litigation. The latest comes to us courtesy of Sony BMG, which is the lead plaintiff in the case of Sony BMG et al v. Arellanes. Sony was dealt a setback by […]

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