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First came the "Mac vs. PC" ads from Apple.
Then came the "I’m a PC" ads from Microsoft that tried to poke back at Apple.
And now we have Apple ads that poke fun at Microsoft’s campaign that pokes at Apple.
I wonder if any of this actually helps to sell any more computers?

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Last week my Macbook failed to come out of sleep mode, and wouldn’t boot. I dropped into single-user mode (Command-S + Power On in case you wanted to know) and found that I had a disk problem. I managed to start it from that point anyway, backed everything up, and by leaving it on all [...]

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I spent last Sunday cleaning my garage.
Over time all kinds of things pile up to the point that you can’t even remember why you have them in the first place. Then one day you realize that so much of it is just clutter, in your garage and ostensibly in your life. So we started to [...]

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Microsoft has unleashed a new marketing campaign. It’s all about the "Apple Tax" – the additional cost to make your Mac run Windows applications. Unless, like me, you don’t want to run Windows applications.
According to Brad Brooks, Microsoft vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing:
There really is a tax around there for people that are [...]

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I had the pleasure today of meeting several students from the Business program at Conestoga College. They were at the LaunchPad $50K Pitch Competition with an assignment to network – to meet people and ask about the biggest challenges faced by their businesses.
I noted that my biggest challenge was finding customers.
It was interesting watching them. [...]

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Tim O’Reilly wants software developers to get serious:
Computer-book publishing magnate Tim O’Reilly is urging young geeks to stop making software that lets you throw sheep at your friends on Facebook or drink beer on your iPhone and to instead start making a difference in the world. He is daring them, in the words of James [...]

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I’m guest blogging for Communitech at Entrepreneur Week. You can read all about it over at http://communitechblog.ca.

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Canadian NDP leader Jack Layton supports providing services in Punjabi, the fourth most spoken language in Canada.
Canada alreadly provides services in English and French. So what’s the third most spoken language in Canada, and is he planning on providing services for that one as well?
Tip of the hat to Because No One Asked.

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You can apparently test drive Google’s Android over at T-Mobile, though it doesn’t work for me.
Via Lifehacker.

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Not from the real UPS though.
I got an email today purportedly from UPS, but the sender address was tek2@rql.kiev.ua, and not ups.com. The subject was "[NO-REPLY] UPS Tracking Number 52672890" and the email said this:
Unfortunately we were not able to deliver postal package you sent on Sept the 18 in time because the recipient’s address [...]

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