So last week Twitter killed it's Canadian service. They claim it is because of over priced text messaging service costs. They haven't killed all of Twitter in Canada, just the outbound SMS updates, meaning you can still send SMS updates to twitter, but you can not receive SMS updates. One might say, then what's the point?

A few weeks ago, I upgraded to the newest Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.10 and so far things have been rather smooth, not like the last update I did. If you remember, last updated to 8.04, I had no wireless access at all but I managed to get it working with some finesse and some helpful blog posts. This install went really really smooth.

Today I installed the new Ubuntu Linux to my laptop. Everyone remembers the issues I had with 8.04 [and if you don't, read some of my past stories on the subject, there are a few]. So far, the install has been very very smooth.

I've had the iPhone for a few months now, and everything with it is just awesome. Then I decided to reformat my computer, but I forgot to de-authorize my iTunes account on that computer, so when I had my computer up and running again, I had to re-activate my account, which used another of my five activations.

Since the release of the iPhone, there have been a lot of great applications made available. Since the phones operating system was already jailbroken, meaning that users are able to put any application on their phone they want, there have been a plethora of applications being actively developed on. In this article I'll highlight a few of the applications that I use, and that I like.

This is my problem, and hopefully you can relate. I can spend an hour reading a dozen news articles each day and still not know the general direction of the world. My interests and biases guide what I choose to read, and so I get a skewed world picture.

Part 1 described the mechanics of an economy based on the unused processing power of desktop and laptop computers on the internet. Part 2 gave a detailed example of a digital media store like iTunes that could use this spare power to offer free music while still compensating the artists fairly. In this part, we'll do a comparison of some popular free Massively-Multiplayer Online (MMO) games between the revenue they earn and how and the revenue they could earn through the spare computer power of their users.

There is some good news today, hitmenforhire.com has moved it's server.

In my ongoing series of articles I've written about Ubuntu 8.04 I've described some of the issues I've had with it "out of the box" so to speak. Now don't get me wrong, with some tweaking I've managed to get everything fully functioning and running smoothly. Except my media keys on my HP laptop.

This is a possible use for the grid computing economy mentioned in part 1 , a media store funded by grid computing. The basic model works like this: a research group buys a large block of computer time for some major computational work they need done. That work is distributed in manageable blocks to users with spare processor cycles in exchange for credits.