Who knows why Apple decided not to allow you to export your contacts from the OS X Address Book application? Maybe it’s fear of feature bloat; maybe it’s a sinister attempt to lock you in once you’ve started using their app.

One thing’s for certain: it’s a colossal pain.

(You actually can export individual contacts very easily as vCards. But if what you’re looking for is a… Read more...

Like many parents, we wrestle with the role that TV plays in our daughter’s life. One of the hardest issues is trying to ensure she gets to see girls in leading roles.

Have a look at the protagonists on children’s TV shows, and you’ll see an endless procession of boys. The exceptions are few and far between: Dora the Explorer, Angelina Ballerina, Madeline, the Mole Sisters, and arguably Max… Read more...

After two months of waiting, wrangling and wondering, our WeaKnees hard drive upgrade for our TiVo arrived at the door this afternoon. However, we had no room for it, and told the Canada Post guy to leave it in a manger… wait a sec. Wrong story.

This is the story of the WeaKnees upgrade installation. (Good news: there’s a happy ending.)

1. 20:00 pm: We’ve

By way of Beth Kanter at the Net2 blog, a cool blog mentoring project from one Katy Pearce:
Interested in developing the worldwide blogosphere? Like working with young people?

We are looking for bloggers from around the world to be a blogging mentor for 1 week sometime in February, March, April or May 2006.

The project, Young Caucasus Women, is a group blog for young women… Read more...

It’s shaping up to be a shiny, happy holiday for all the excited girls and boys of the blogospheriverse.

• the official release of version 2.0 of their blogging software. They were going to allow us to open our presents a little early, naughty devils, but more mature minds prevailed – partly to ensure that the WordPress support community isn’t handling anguished cries of “This takes

Over at James Sherritt’s blog, we learn that the Ridge Theatre will close permanently on December 23. Yeah, that Ridge: fantastic popcorn. Great flicks during the film festival. The best marquee in the Lower Mainland.

Here’s the official announcement.

Update: And yet the Ridge stubbornly insists on doing things like making popcorn and showing movies. The “official announcement” link above now leads to an error page… Read more...

If that blogging geek in the next cubicle over seems a little more jumpy than usual, it may be because she’s constantly checking to see if WordPress has released version 2.0 of their blogging software.

News has reached the WordPress community that the release is imminent, and could happen as early as Wednesday. At that point, every WordPress blog currently running on version 1.5.x of the software –… Read more...

From the CBC:
RBC Royal Bank is sending refunds of $25 million to 250,000 of its GIC clients because the corporation confused simple with compound interest.
Just imagine for a moment that a Canadian government had done that. Can’t you imagine the procession of pundits — from Terence Corcoran to Michael Walker to Tom D’Aquino — all citing this as proof that the public sector should never, ever be… Read more...