That was the WRONG button...

Due to a technical foul-up, some Comcast Cable subscribers got a surprise along with their Super Bowl commercials (which incidentally do not air in Canada due to our bizarre broadcasting rules). About 30 seconds of a porn channel, Club Jenna, were accidentally switched into the feed. That was definitely the wrong button.

HP has arrived at an interesting strategy for getting more (free) Linux installations into its netbooks, helping its bottom line while appealing to non-Linux hippies. The HP Mini 1000 MIE will ship with a build of Ubuntu which will allow newbies (sorry, I mean novice users) to easily access thier e-mail, photos, and music without really going near the OS, let alone going command line (which occurs to often in Linux for my liking). HP may also make the interface layer available for users to install on thier existing Ubuntu machines, keeping with the open-source philosophy.

Google has made its online platform more interoperable with the iPhone, which is great for those of us who use both regularly. The new features allows syncing of your Google contacts and calender with your iPhone. The setup uses much of the same process as setting up an Exchange account on the iPhone, and does save you from the $99/year for Apple's roughly equivalent MobileMe service.