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Independent analysis of Canadian telecom, IT, and AI. Exploring infrastructure, policy, regulation, and the technologies shaping Canada’s digital future.
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If you're reading this, you're looking at a completely rebuilt blog. Not a theme change. Not a migration. A from-scratch rebuild of everything – the content system, the search, the social layer, and...
Matthew Gamble
code
Last week I was reviewing a vulnerability scan report for a client when something caught my eye. Buried in a list of "critical" findings was a Log4j vulnerability - you know, the one that broke the...
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Most AI bans don’t actually reduce risk. They reduce visibility. When pressure to deliver stays high and approved tools create friction, employees will find another way. The data will move. The real question isn’t whether AI gets used, it’s whether leadership chooses to see it happening.
Matthew Gamble
Reflections
There is a special kind of UX failure that doesn’t crash, doesn’t throw an error, doesn’t even look broken. It just quietly lies to you. Exhibit A: Bing Weather’s “Health & Activities” panel. At a glance, everything is green. Green green green green green. If you are a normal human being wh
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Reflections
I was listening to Young Forever by Jay Z the other day and a line landed harder than it ever had before. “So you livin life like a video where the sun is always out and you never get old.” That is not just a lyric anymore. That is the internet. Scroll for five minutes and tell me you do n
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Reflections
I came home last night from a New Year’s Eve party to something that felt deeply wrong. My house was hot. Not just warm. Uncomfortably, unbearably hot. The first thing I did was walk over to my ecobee thermostat. The display showed 20.5°C, which seemed perfectly reasonable. But the furnace was r
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Reflections
Long ago (2016) on a much simpler internet, Spotify Wrapped showed up in December and everyone agreed it was kind of delightful. You learned that you listened to the same song 347 times, your personality was somehow “sad cowboy disco,” and your friends briefly revealed more about themselves than the
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Reflections
Humbled and Grateful started the same way many bad leadership posts do. With a pause. A deep breath. And the quiet realization that something had gone terribly wrong. For years, my LinkedIn feed has been flooded with a very specific genre of writing. The anguished executive LinkedIn confession. The
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Reflections
A few weeks ago, I was at a McDonald’s drive-thru when the pickup screen flashed a code meant to confirm my mobile order: FU35. You can imagine the awkwardness of saying “F U” into a speaker to a total stranger. I half expected the system to beep back in protest. At least my kids got a good chuckle
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Reflections
Earlier today I tried to cancel a TV service I’d signed up for entirely through an app. Setup was seamless - download, click, confirm, and boom, I had live TV faster than Shane Bieber exercised his player option with the Jays. But when it came time to cancel? That required calling a real person, sit
Matthew Gamble
Reflections
This morning, I experienced something deeply troubling—and dangerous—from a major Canadian wireless provider. While placing a routine call to a number in Welland, Ontario from a Rogers Wireless phone, the call failed to reach the intended recipient. Instead, what I heard was over 25 seconds of someo
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Bill S-209 aims to protect kids from explicit material—but it risks turning ISPs into internet police, undermining privacy, and threatening freedom online. There’s a better way. 🛑📵 #BillS209 #Privacy #InternetFreedom
Matthew Gamble