2007

Posted on December 24, 2007 by

Thinksecret gone… Fake Steve next?

Last week, after a long battle with Apple, Think Secret was shut down. Apple has been trying to muzzle the Apple rumour site for a while now, to stop them from publishing leaked reports of their upcoming products. Think Secret obviously has a “mole” on the inside, as most of their revelations are surprisingly accurate. Read More

Posted on October 24, 2007 by

New arrival

I am proud to announce the birth of our son, Jackson Johar Taiabjee, on Oct 18, 2007. Both Jack and mom are doing great! You can find pics and more on Jack’s blog at

Posted on September 26, 2007 by

Quick way to gzip your CSS

The quickest and easiest way to speed up your website is to add mod_gzip to your pages. Basically what it does is takes any .html page on the server, and uses gzip compression to shrink the file before sending it out. IE or Firefox at the users end will unzip it and display it automatically, Read More

Posted on September 7, 2007 by

Joetek Server Move

Hi Folks, Over the past few weeks we have been in the process of moving the system to a new offsite location to address the reliability issues. Suddenly, that process has been put into high gear. Lots of issues with the Joetek Server this morning.

Posted on September 6, 2007 by

Finally! The iPhone without the Phone!

Back in January, Apple announced their revolutionary new iPhone. It was a great device, but it’s ties to AT&T really crippled it. First, their Edge network leave much to be desired. Secondly, and most importantly for me, is it limits it to the U.S. market. We were all waiting for the functionality of the iPhone, Read More

Posted on July 19, 2007 by

Cheap Hosting + Cheap Software = Secure Offsite Backups

Okay, we all know that we should be backing up our computers regularly. We have our entire lives on these machines. All of my digital pictures, music, every word document and spreadsheet I’ve done in the last 15 years. If I were to lose that data… well, I don’t even want to think about it. Read More

Posted on June 11, 2007 by

Google zooms in to “Street View”

A new feature was added to Google Maps last week that allows you to zoom right in to view what the street looks like in the major cities. Already, Top Sightings sites have popped up showing off some of the interesting things captured as the Street View Car zoomed by. Very cool, as Google once Read More

Posted on May 10, 2007 by

How far we have come.

This afternoon, as I was walking to my car in Downtown Toronto, I walked in front of an old Dodge Caravan waiting to pull out of a parking lot. At that moment, I had the oddest flashback to my childhood, growing up in Bramalea in the 80′s. I continued walking past the driveway, and the Read More

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