Apple Developer Connection: Worldwide Developers Conference 2008

Apple announced WWDC 2008 today, it's in June in San Francisco (again). I had no intentions of going this year, but the iPhone SDK announcements are sorta changing things. I'm seriously interested in developing applications for the iPhone, so obviously WWDC is the place to be this June.

I'm hoping I can get a student scholarship to the conference, as has been available in previous years, but I haven't found any information about it yet. If you know anything about student rates / scholarships this year, please let me know.

Of course, I would be even more excited if we could actually, oh I don't know, get the iPhone in Canada. I guess it's the price I pay for living in an undeveloped country like Canada instead of a technology haven like Ireland.

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Economist.com: Personal taxes | Give over

According to the Economist, Canadians pay less in tax than Americans. So, our dollar is worth more and we pay less in taxes. For years, if you asked a Canadian why they moved to the US to work, they'd probably say because the US dollar is worth more and Americans pay less in taxes. So, are Americans are going to start flocking to Canada?

Note that our taxes include the majority of our health care costs, and we aren't spending $12B a month in Iraq... but we are pillaging the environment in Northern Alberta. Maybe Canadians think it's easier to destroy their own country to get more oil instead of destroying someone else's country.

Personally, I just like hockey.

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YouTube: Tremblay Guest Lecture

One of my classmates told me about J.P. Tremblay, a "legendary" Computer Science professor from the University of Saskatchewan. This video is of his last lecture, apparently a guest lecture he did after he retired to sub for a professor who couldn't make it to class for some reason.

It's pretty hilarious, a few things happen that I've never seen happen in a classroom before. :-)

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