larry borsato

The largesse of government organizations, who just can’t even pretend to be concerned about frittering away tax dollars, never ceases to amaze me: The Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs needs someone to run the Facebook page for the Dept. of the Interior and they’ll pay up to $115,000 a year. Over at the Dept. of [...]

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Over at the National Post, Kelly McParland gets it bang on: Every day it gets a little bit harder to know when to be offended in Canada. Since being offended has become part of the national culture, with a network of human rights bodies established to ensure no one should ever be offended by anything [...]

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According to a study, says the Los Angeles Times, women who post lots of photos of themselves on Facebook value their appearance and need attention: There were differences between women and men. Overall, the results suggest that, compared with men, females identify more strongly with their image and appearance and use Facebook to compete for [...]

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Jamie Murai wrote a post about the pain of writing applications for RIM devices. He did what I and so many others couldn’t; he got a response from RIM. Not that this really matters. As I’ve noted before, RIM’s developer tools are difficult to use and don’t really work all that well. I was porting [...]

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