So it's been fairly cool passively watching the WordPress blogs on the internet slowly convert to BraveNewCode's WPtouch iPhone theme. Tod Maffin just sent me a link to the CBC's Official Blog, which now sports a fancy new WPtouch theme. Check it out.

Ok, I'm going to go into rant mode. Why is everyone so enamored with Google these days? I read yesterday about their recent Google App Engine, and didn't really see anything that particularly turned my crank. I've been bouncing around the web today reading what people are saying, ...

No real surprise here, but this article talks about the seemingly inevitable death of the newspaper. I don't think I've picked one up in ages, and for the most part get most of my news from various news agencies on the web and from RSS feeds for peers. ...

I read this fairly alarming (although not entirely surprising) article yesterday detailing how prescription drugs are being detected in municipal water sources. A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million ...

Today Apple officially unveiled the new Apple MacBook and MacBook pro laptops. Not a whole lot of excitement with the announcements, since many people were expecting a new form factor, but it looks like there are a few small improvements. Of note is the addition of the multi-touch ...

So a friend of mine pinged me online the other day and told me he had been laid off from a local company. I didn't ask too many details because I was a bit busy at the time, but since then a larger picture has emerged. Apparently the local ...

Toshiba just withdrew their support, which basically means it's completely empty over in the HD-DVD camp right now. Remind me never to be an early adopter again. So, stay tuned for the HD-DVD burning party at a campground near Chilliwack.

I just caught this video over on Tony's blog. I have a hard time watching confrontations like this -- I don't even know what I'd do if I were ever put in a situation with an asshole cop like that.