Tech Issues Archives

September 12, 2025 Growing up in Toronto (Thank You, Toronto Mike!)
September 9, 2024 Back to the Blog
September 2, 2017 The Fourth Computer
April 2, 2017 I'm on the cutting edge! Oh, wait, I just nicked myself...
October 9, 2015 What the Heck, Facebook?
October 1, 2014 The Hand and the Eye
July 8, 2014 Hey, Whatever Works, Right?
May 10, 2014 Apple OsX Stops a Windows Trojan Over the Phone
April 11, 2014 Google Drive Versus Microsoft OneDrive
October 24, 2013 OsX Mavericks Mail Problems with Gmail
March 29, 2013 Just When You Thought Pop-Ups Couldn't Get More Obnoxious
February 10, 2013 My Blackberry is not Working!
January 28, 2013 Apple Workarounds
January 9, 2013 Kitchener's Growing Wi-Fi Presence
January 5, 2013 Gadgetted Out (For Now)
April 17, 2012 To Cut the Cord, or Not to Cut the Cord...
February 28, 2012 Playing Princess
February 13, 2012 First Post - Ten Years Later
February 12, 2012 Battery Blues
August 16, 2011 For Reference, the Sign Refers to Two Separate Items, Not One...
July 20, 2011 Trying Times
April 2, 2011 The Coming Death of Blogs
March 31, 2011 Excuse the Mess...
October 22, 2010 Thoughts on the iPhone, Two Months Later
October 20, 2010 On Matters Apple and Movable Type
October 17, 2010 Why I like Scrivener
August 26, 2010 A New Look
August 12, 2010 Convergence
February 4, 2010 Again With the Scourage of Comment Spam
January 28, 2010 Oh, Beautiful iPad. Why I Won't be Buying Thee
November 24, 2009 In Honour of the Late, Great Freddy Mercury...
August 21, 2009 Tornado Power!
July 26, 2009 Rural Fantasy
July 23, 2009 Another Reason Why eBooks Won't Replace Print Media Utterly
July 16, 2009 Roam No More
June 15, 2009 Happy Birthday Italy!
March 29, 2009 The Replacements
January 13, 2009 Where are the Flying Cars? Why, Right Here, of Course!
December 10, 2008 Ah, but could Goodyear Rubber have prevented this accident?
October 18, 2008 "From Financial Family Seven, we have the Adherents of the Repeated Meme."
September 30, 2008 "Oh, Look!" says God. "A Challenge!"
June 5, 2008 Apple is the Future
May 28, 2008 The Geek Starts Here
April 17, 2008 Quick Hits -- April 17
March 20, 2008 Look How Far We've Come
March 6, 2008 Another Sign that the Human Race Might Be Too Stupid to Live
February 16, 2008 In Which I Sing the Praises of My Webhost
February 13, 2008 Six Years Conversing Among Friends
January 30, 2008 The Second Christmas
January 23, 2008 Well, That Didn't Go As Well As Planned
January 5, 2008 The Good and Bad of Apple
December 29, 2007 A Very Odd Definition of Courage
December 27, 2007 Blogging from Lincoln, Nebraska
December 9, 2007 Radio CBOW
Monster iCarPlay 200 Wireless FM Transmitter Reviewed
December 8, 2007 The Fall of the CD and the Rise of DMCA
December 4, 2007 Wherein I Kick Warren Kinsella's Butt!
November 14, 2007 iTypos
November 9, 2007 bowjamesbow.eh Domain Unavailable... For Now
October 29, 2007 Quick Hits -- October 29
October 25, 2007 The Epic, Fifty Question, Are You a Big Geek, Test
October 21, 2007 Comment Registration on Bow. James Bow. Here's how:
October 20, 2007 Long Live the New King
September 24, 2007 Get and Give a $188 Laptop this Christmas
September 20, 2007 Some Issues With Apple
September 16, 2007 Movable Type 4.0 Reviewed
August 24, 2007 A Writer's Interlude
June 29, 2007 The Only Time I Will Ever Use the Words 'Paris' and 'Hilton' in a Post
June 27, 2007 In Which I Run an X-Rated Site
June 20, 2007 The Squee Factor
(Utopia Reviewed)
June 13, 2007 Bizarre.
June 8, 2007 Jump, Science! Jump!
June 6, 2007 Italo Calvino and Me
May 29, 2007 A Question of Anonymity
May 28, 2007 Quick Hits - May 28
May 12, 2007 How Andre Boisclair Could Have Avoided Defeat
April 11, 2007 Netiquette 2.0 (The Code of Conduct)
April 3, 2007 An Open Letter to Greg Sorbara and John Tory
March 31, 2007 I'm Just Talking About Washington, Man!
February 26, 2007 The Y2K38 Problem
February 19, 2007 Fathom Five Page Proofs Arrive
February 11, 2007 Justice Must be Blind, But it Should Still Make Sense
February 9, 2007 Optics and Reality
February 8, 2007 Fear Her. And Fear the BANPC (Yeah, Right)
February 1, 2007 Where Are All the Lonely People? Not in the Blogosphere!
January 20, 2007 Two Against One: Firefox/Thunderbird versus Seamonkey
January 18, 2007 The Slow Death of Feedback
December 15, 2006 Short-Sighted Conservative Thinking
December 10, 2006 Further Thoughts on the Canadian Blogosphere
November 15, 2006 The National To-Do List IV: Electoral Reform.
November 6, 2006 The Hunt for the Elusive Free Wifi Hotspot
October 19, 2006 GoDaddy and Movable Type Do Not Mix
September 29, 2006 Reviews Taken and Given
September 15, 2006 Excerpt From the Very Last Episode of Dora the Explorer
August 25, 2006 So Long, Pluto!
August 16, 2006 And Then There Were Twelve...
July 11, 2006 Finally, Blogging Pays Off!
June 29, 2006 Movable Type 3.3 Reviewed
June 24, 2006 The Importance of Being James II
June 22, 2006 Apology Accepted
May 26, 2006 The Unwritten Girl Literature Unit
May 22, 2006 Why I Will Not Go to See the Da Vinci Code Movie
May 16, 2006 Just Wing It, Baby!
March 24, 2006 Phone Spam
March 7, 2006 Living With Writers
February 9, 2006 Calling All Waterloo-Wellington Bloggers
January 17, 2006 Quick Hits - January 17
November 19, 2005 $100 Laptop Unleashed
October 31, 2005 Mother Earth
October 23, 2005 OpenOffice 2.0 and Mac OsX
October 13, 2005 James Bow Switches II (For Real, This Time)
October 7, 2005 Retitling Rosemary and Time II
September 8, 2005 What He Said.
August 27, 2005 Movable Type 3.2 Reviewed
August 12, 2005 Is it time for a Scottish DVD player?
August 3, 2005 Odd Spam
July 22, 2005 Quick Hits, Quick Comments
July 3, 2005 Messianic Michael Ignatieff
June 30, 2005 The New Doctor Who: Continuation or Reboot?
June 8, 2005 At the CMPA Conference in the Old Mill
May 23, 2005 Tim Horton Wins
May 2, 2005 A little knowledge isn't dangerous... just a lost profit opportunity.
April 28, 2005 What Harper Should Have Said
April 23, 2005 It's All About Linkages
April 12, 2005 A Safe Bet
April 10, 2005 The $100 Laptop
March 27, 2005 Who Am I?
March 15, 2005 Bare Bones MP3
February 9, 2005 Third Blog Birthday; 1000th Blog Post and News
January 31, 2005 What Are You Doing Still Using Movable Type 2.6?
December 30, 2004 Skweezer Is A Thief
December 11, 2004 It Just Gets Worse for Lycos
December 3, 2004 Going Over the Edge in the War on Spam?
November 30, 2004 What a Bargain!
November 28, 2004 James Bow Switches
November 14, 2004 How to Act Like An Opposition Party
October 27, 2004 Sharon Wins Gaza Test
September 27, 2004 Ouch!
September 7, 2004 Righteous Anger Made Easy
September 5, 2004 Movable Type 3.1 Reviewed
August 17, 2004 One Small Ship
August 13, 2004 A Death in the Solar Car Movement
August 5, 2004 I Rule the World
August 3, 2004 The Twelve Percent Solution?
July 29, 2004 Crashing Palm Pilots
June 21, 2004 Thank you Movable Type!
June 1, 2004 Friends and Comrades
May 21, 2004 Red Room! Red Room!
May 16, 2004 Movable Type 3.0 Reviewed
April 23, 2004 Blame Canada!
April 13, 2004 Not Sure What to Call This One
April 6, 2004 I Don't See the Connection
March 18, 2004 Technical Obsolesence Nonsense
March 10, 2004 Tooker Gomberg
February 29, 2004 Important Information About Movable Type
February 9, 2004 Bats in the Belfry
January 30, 2004 New Digs
January 27, 2004 Snow Day for the Internet
January 17, 2004 MT Blacklist Works!
December 29, 2003 Fun With Google II
December 9, 2003 Historical Interventions
December 3, 2003 Coming Back Online
November 30, 2003 Going to the Dreaming
October 30, 2003 Groundwood Says No
October 29, 2003 Interview with a VampBlogger
October 23, 2003 Tech Drooling and More
October 13, 2003 That's What It's All About...
October 12, 2003 Spammers Getting Bitter?
August 12, 2003 The Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and ESPECIALLY Churchill Falls
August 7, 2003 Portability For the Rest of Us
May 31, 2003 Speaking Publicly to Your Diary
May 4, 2003 IE on MacIntosh Problem Solved!
April 12, 2003 Jam Cam!
March 22, 2003 Struggling With Browser Compatibility
February 24, 2003 Technical Developments
February 23, 2003 Digital Alexandria Is Burning
February 8, 2003 Browser Blues
January 24, 2003 Be Careful With Your Defaults
December 26, 2002 Internet Panhandlers? How about Internet Street Performers?
December 4, 2002 Oh, You Have *Got* to be Kidding Me!
November 4, 2002 Pringles, Spam and Books
October 9, 2002 Happy Birthday, Moveable Type
October 7, 2002 And Then There Were Eight...
September 27, 2002 The Advantages of Movable Type
September 20, 2002 Dwindling Hours
August 31, 2002 BlogBuddy!
August 30, 2002 Trying Mozilla One More Time
June 19, 2002 Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!
June 13, 2002 Nothing Magical About Blogging
June 7, 2002 Pbbbbt to Microsoft
May 16, 2002 Running Away From Microsoft