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Weblib – a library of Netbooks

Matthieu — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:19:27 +0000

I was browsing Facebook today and glanced up at the usually useless “Suggestions” box. For the first time, I saw something interesting. My cousin in France had become a fan of “Weblib”.

Intrigued, I clicked the link. It seems like a pretty interesting concept. To quote their website: “Besoin d’aller sur Internet? Pas d’ordinateur? Weblib vous en prete un gratuitement.” For all you English-speakers, that means “Need to use the Internet? No computer? Weblib will lend you one for free.”

I think that speaks for itself. Not sure what their business model is, but I hope it works, and perhaps we’ll have something of the sort in Canada soon!.

http://www.weblib.eu/

Balloon Boy

Matthieu — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:34:13 +0000

“Six year old Falcon Heene was found to be hiding in the attic after allegedly being carried away in his father’s experimental balloon aircraft.”

(Images taken from CBC.ca)

Today a strange helium balloon was seen floating in Colorado. It was thought that there was a six-year-old boy aboard. The whole Internet watched in awe as the story unfolded. It was found out that the boy was actually hiding in his attic. Now the story is lolz, and has led to some precious tweets such as:

“What did Beyonce say to the parents of the 6-year-old kid that flew away in a balloon? If you liked it then you should have put a string on it.”

“Yo Balloon Boy, Imma let you finish, but Anne Frank had the best attic hideout spot of all time…”

“#balloonboy needs his ass poped…no pun intended lol”

I’ll say it again… what would we do without the internet?

Bell setting download limits on resellers

Matthieu — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:40:53 +0000

Looks like unlimited Internet access no longer exists for Canadians (or at least Ontarians, at any rate). The CRTC has approved a petition by Bell to charge small ISPs (TekSavvy, Velcom, Acanac) for the bandwidth they use. These small companies are currently the only way for most residential customers to get true unlimited Internet access at home. The large Canadian ISPs such as Rogers, Bell Sympatico and Videotron all limit their customers’ download traffic, forcing those who need more to upgrade to more expensive service plans. This is absolutely ridiculous. In an age of digital media, where high-bitrate HD content and streaming video are becoming more and more commonplace, along with steadily increasing Internet connection speeds, this is a big step backwards for Canadians. Furthermore, the small ISPs are now at risk of going bankrupt, since their major selling point is their unlimited or high traffic allowance.

Seems the CRTC has failed Canadians once again. Now that I’ve had my little rant, the question is, what can be done to reverse the decision, or to prevent anything worse from happening?

Speed

Matthieu — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:56:45 +0000

Internet connection speed today. If only it were this fast every day.