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Monthly Archives January 2008

Mic bomb?

I work at the CBC’s Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Just down the hall from my desk, they built something called an “Idea Room.” It’s a nice, big, bright room with a table, and chairs, and whiteboards. We use it for meetings, where presumably, we come up with ideas. Hence the name.
The walls of the Idea […]

Posted 22 January 2008 † dmisener § CBC ‡ Comments (2) °

Download the CBC TV winter lineup automatically

As Ouimet observes, much of the CBC’s winter television lineup is available for download via Bittorrent, thanks to some thieving television pirates.
But what you may not know is that The Border, Sophie, and jPod (but not MVP) each have corresponding RSS feeds on tvRSS.net.
What does this mean?
If you paste the search-based RSS feed for each […]

Posted 15 January 2008 † dmisener § CBC § television ‡ Comments (1) °

Unlimited EDGE data on your iPhone in Canada

Last August, Jenna and I drove to Somerset Mall in Troy, Michigan to pick up an iPhone. A few weeks later, it was unlocked. Since then, it’s been an amazing phone/iPod/camera/web device. I really love  carrying just one device.
But there’s a problem: Mobile data rates in Canada are atrociously high. Unlimited plans (like the one […]

Posted 10 January 2008 † dmisener § iphone ‡ Comments (16) °