I posted yesterday about wanting to use my phone to publish my location in realtime, and I got a bunch of fantastic responses both in the comments and as emails (thanks folks!) I fooled around with some of them with varying degrees of success. Nokia Sport Tracker seems like it would be great! Howeve...

I’m planning to go on an extended motorcycle trip in May. Whenever I leave to go somewhere for more than a few hours and my friends know about it I tend to get a lot of calls. They get very concerned and call to make sure I’m not lying on the side of the road somewhere bleeding. Can̵...

The bottom row of images are from Vic Shum. I'm really liking his long exposure shots. Thanks to everyone that contributes to the blogTO Flickr Pool. 1. Better left unsaid, 2. Damn straight!, 3. blast of light at queen and spadina, 4. Toronto At Night 3, 5. Ashbridges Bay Pumping Station II, 6. RBC ...

Check out the interview that Omar did with Kara from All Things Digital. Kara’s a fantastic interviewer, and Omar always has interesting stuff to say. So even if you normally skip video tidbits (like I normally do) this one is still worth it. The comments about Silicon Valley and Madison Avenu...

One of the points I was harping on at and around the Symbian Partner conf were my perceived issued with the Symbian Signed effort. As a developer I get no benefit out of the initiative, but I’ve commonly felt some pained incurred by it. David Wood also just posted about the basic principles of...

I’m not allowed to talk yet about what I’ve been working on for the last few months. Odd isn’t it? But information wants to be free fortunately, so here are a few other folks talking about what we’ve been up to: Wapreview Pocketnow.com There’s definitely some stuff we n...

I turned on AdSense ads again. Somewhere in the random failing that was getting getting my blog admin interface working again I apparently overwrote all the customizations that I had done. Not that I make a lot of money from the ads, I just like fooling around with the publisher side of the ad netwo...

One of the most common reactions that “mobile experts” have when new converts start waxing poetic about the iPhone is that the iPhone is just a niche device. “It’s only really popular in the US, you need to start thinking about the billions of devices out there in the market&...

I had heard that there was a great presentation floating around by Steve Yegge about dynamic languages, virtual machines, and optimization. And I forget what got it in front of me, but yesterday I hit the transcript of the talk, definitely recommended reading even though it seems really long. Stuff ...

The news is out and public now that I’ve joined Skyfire in full. I’ve had to dance around the subject for a while. Luckily I was already doing some consulting with them before I joined, so I was able to hide behind that (sorry to the folks who asked me nice simple direct questions and go...