Category Archives: Opinion

Dreamhost Hates Rails

I’ll admit it, that title is wayyy too sensationalistic. But I think it fits right in with all the back and forth blog posts that have revolved around a recent post at the Dreamhost blog talking about the problems with running Rails apps on shared hosts. Seeing as how I’ve tried, with mixed results, [...]

Boeing’s New Airplane Vulnerable To Hacking

I was reading Wired.com this morning and came across a rather scary article on Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner. Apparently, no one at Boeing realized that it wouldn’t be a good idea to put the flight control and communication system on the same network as the passengers internet access. So basically, it wouldn’t be impossible that [...]

Canada Gets Shafted…Again

Apple announced today that they will finally be offering Canadians the ability to buy TV shows through the iTunes store. Now many of you might be excited to hear this. With video support available on all new iPods, except the Shuffle, the ability to download TV shows from iTunes should be a great thing. Well [...]

Why I Use Apple’s Apps

I came across a really interesting article over at AppleMatters.com, where Chris Howard attempts to answer the question “Why Do I Use Apple’s Apps?” He specifically mentions Spaces, and I thought I would concentrate on that. Chris writes: