TransitCamp – A Torcamp Event

TorontoTransitcamp is happening this weekend as a TorCamp event to look at the TTC in Toronto. As a new TTC rider and DemoCamp participant I’m excited to see people getting involved. You an pre-register for the event here but select is being handled by a lottery because of the volume of people. The event is […]

TTC Pricing Breakdown

Over the past week I’ve been taking the TTC ( Toronto Transit Commission ), mainly because my car has some electrical problems. I like the down time after work to just relax so I thought I’d investigate options to use the TTC more often. The TTC pricing is very complicated but an excellent example of […]

Don’t ignore the Echo

I was reading an article in The Toronto Star yesterday about the number of university applicants, and how Canadian universities can’t handle the load. You can read the full article here: Universities Face Baby Bust I thought David Foot’s response was very disappointing and the tone of the article was basically that we could just […]

PS2 Leads Xmas Sales

Sales numbers are in from the Holidays and Sony’s Playstation 2 still dominated the season. The breakdown of console sales for Dec, 2006 were: Playstation2 with 1.2M sold Microsoft Xbox360 with 1.1M sold Nintendo Wii with 604K sold Playstation3 with 400K sold The PS2 xmas sales are on top of approximately 100M units already in […]

Iphone vs Blackberry, Looking at the Supporting Infrastructure

Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ve probably seen something about the new Apple iPhone and probably heard something about it being a BlackBerry killer. In isolation the iPhone looks a pretty cool phone with its multi-touch and iPod functionality included. When you start to looking a the BlackBerry and what’s made it successful […]