Month: March, 2008

No More Starbucks

16 March, 2008 (12:45) | Business, Local, Tech | No comments

Halifax has plenty of coffee shops.  Most every one of them offers free wireless internet access.  When you think about it, this seems like a reasonable service to offer when your customers are willing to shell out five bucks for what is, essentially, a big glass of milk.
Unfortunately, Starbucks has recently partnered with Bell Canada [...]

Playstation 3

3 March, 2008 (01:40) | Entertainment, Tech | 1 comment

I finally broke down and bought a Playstation 3.  After one day of ownership, I have to say, I couldn’t be happier.
I bought the 40GB version, which lacks the media card reader and Playstation 2 emulation.  Neither of those features was particularly important to me, so I couldn’t really justify an extra hundred bucks for [...]