Wired Cola

I'll be an in-studio participant on the CBC game show Test the Nation, as part of the bloggers team. You'll be able to mock my performance for the comfort of your own home Sunday night at 8 pm. 

The ridiculous title explained: Ms. Helfer is one of the celebrity guests who will be on the show.

A few years ago Wired Cola was acquired by Globadom LLC, a closely-held venture with a simple but daring business plan.

Wired Cola will continue normal operations at wiredcola.com. As you can see, the transition has begun, though it is not complete. We expect great things to happen.

• Globadom is dedicated to the goal of helping you help us help you so that when we need your help ruling the world, you will be there for us.
• Globadom: ruling the world, one customer at a time.
• Globadom would like to hear from you! 

We bring you synergy.

I warned all 20 of you last year that big changes might be coming.

They are.

First manifestation: visiting wiredcola.com in the next day or two may be messy. On the other hand, it is about to be the proper repository of Wired Cola, the world's only Cybermorphic beverage/weblog/synergy leverage project, and a division of Globadom, Incorporated.

Look for exciting Web 1.4-type features coming soon, as we exit the blogspot ghetto.

You know why I did this? Because I have a 50% failure rate on typing blogspot's captchas.

In a comment on my ridiculous prediction post, Andrew asks if I think the revised Apple TV qualifies as my predicted Pippin 2.

Pippin 2. You heard it here first.

TLO and I went to the Macmillan Bloedel Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park on a lark. There, we met Charlie:

Thanks Charlie, we love you too.

Bell is sorta promoting their Unlimited Mobile data plan. It's not clear if this is purely a "walled garden" play, but the short version is that early reports say it isn't: you can just surf the web on your mobile phone's browser, $7/month, unlimited data.

Considering that current data plans range up to something roughly approximating "infinity dollars a month" from most carriers, this is a monstrous breakthrough.

It's good. It's very good. It's less subtle than it thinks it is, and is possibly the least surprising script that could possibly come from the hand of Aaron Sorkin. I mean, he found a story about a Democratic politician who did a little cocaine and did the right thing in Afghanistan? If the story wasn't true, I would damn Sorkin for writing such a banal allegory.