February 2005

Posted on February 12, 2005 by

Mitsubishi Pocket Projector

Here’s a projector small enough to fit in your hand, weighs only 14 oz, and efficient enough to run off batteries. The downside: it can only do 800×600, but if that is enough for you, $699US is a damn good price for a projector!

Posted on February 7, 2005 by

’10 and ’12

Congrats to my former co-workers at CTV and TSN for snagging the broadcast rights to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2012 Summer Olympics! Taking those away from the CBC was no small feat! Combining forces with the two biggest sports stations (TSN and SportsNet), the two biggest Internet Providers (Rogers and Sympatico), Read More

Posted on February 6, 2005 by

10 Years

Wow. 10 Years ago, a little telnet-based talker called CrazyLands was born. It was just as the “web” was getting its feet, and the masses were waking up to this “Internet thing”. CrazyLands was my first glimpse into the emerging power of the Internet. Telnetting into this little talker, you could chat, in real-time, with Read More

Posted on February 6, 2005 by

Holographic Disc pushes up storage

One CD holds 650Mb. A DVD holds 4.7Gb. The new Blu-ray discs hold 25Gb (50Gb dual sided)… Six companies, including Fuji and CMC have formed the Holographic Video Disc (HVD) Consortium working on technology to put a Terabyte of data onto one optical disc. On these discs, you could store about 10 days of standard Read More