Month: April 2009
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PaaS for the hobbyist
Now that we’ve all gotten over our infatuation with SaaS (back from Wikipedia yet? Ok, let’s move on) it’s time to talk about PaaS (off to Wikipedia again aren’t you?!). Platform as a Service is a great idea. Back in the good ‘ol daystm®© we used to share our time on the mainframe provided by…
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Friday Fun: Caption Contest
We need a caption for our new De-Motivational poster. As usual have a party in the comments. A little bit of fun for you as your enjoying your Friday Morning coffee and danish.
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Google moves towards evil?! Part 2
In my on-going quest to validate Google’s Do no evil slogan I have more evidence that Google is becoming evil (or Microsoft is becoming good, but considering IE8 I doubt it)
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Birdhouse for your
SoulTwitterBirdhouse – a notepad for Twitter Apart from the obvious “They Might Be Giants” reference in the name, this is actually a very awesome Twitter tools. I can see it being big with iPod Touch users as well as anyone who has ever had to put up with crappy EDGE service in the states and…
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Ninth Level of Programmers
Recently a tweet by Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) caught my eye. It was titled 8 Levels of Programmers, and describes the different kind of developers out there. I got to thinking, and I think he missed one: Painted In a Corner Developer. Its been my experience that more coders are in that category that would like…
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No income, no trust
Like most Canadians my wife and I have RRSP’s and an RESP for the kids. And like most Canadians I’m not a guru, wiz-kid, or a day-trader. I make my contributions every pay cheque and put the money in some boring fund or blue-chip company and wait for retirement to come along (the sooner the…
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Flutter: Even More A.D.D. Than Twitter
This is so silly, I just had to post this mockumentary from Slate.
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PC to Mac Switching Pains (Part 2)
So now that my iTunes and iPhoto setup is done (sort of), I moved my attention to trying to create the first of hopefully many family movies that will inevitably embarrass the kids (hopefully they’ll still pick a suitable retirement home for their mom & dad!). The importing of existing videos from the external hard…
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OnProbation.ca Feedback Forum – ask Stephen Harper a question
The Liberal party of Canada recently (today?) opened a new web site, onProbation.ca where they are discussing their ideas and have a Feedback Forum called Ask the PM. So I added a question regarding the taxation of income trusts, which is currently ranked number six and rising steadily.