Alex Reid

The people over at How’d They Vote have included a postal code look up in their API.

“How’d They Vote?” aims to be a non-partisan website which provides a variety of in-depth information on the operations of the Canadian Parliament, specifically, how our politicians vote and what they’ve said. We take Hansard and extract information on bills, members of parliament, votes, and speeches. Hansard is an excellent resource, but it is not the mandate of the parliament website to fully index and extract every nugget of interesting information from it.

A worthy project indeed.

The International Telecommunications Union reports that there are 4.6 billion cellphone subscribers world-wide, a trend that outpaces Internet connectivity rates.

It should be noted however that “subscribers” don’t equal “people” as some individuals have multiple phones. For example, both Israel and Italy have 1.3 cellphones per person. It was nearly a decade ago when Motorola found in a study that one in ten subscribers had a second cellphone for engaging in “extramarital affairs or clandestine business dealings”.

It is the developing countries that are seeing more cellphone usage because of its price thanks to steady competition (far better than Canada); the study says 57% of people in those countries are using cellphones.

On Friday, I dropped $1500 and bought a new iMac which marks my third mac.

I’m already enjoying the huge screen, faster processor, speakers, and the crazy touch mouse; this will help tremendously in making videos and doing web work.

Ouch! This Winnipegger got thrown out by his love because of some sultry text messages he didn’t even send; his phone sent them.

This must be like when your phone dials someone while it’s in your pocket. Note to new phone owners, especially those with Virgin Mobile, remove your pre-defined text messages. Also, this says a lot about what market Virgin Mobile is targeting: booty call?