Monthly Archives May 2013

Flickr Redesign Now Gives You ONE TERABYTE of Space (and Some Other Thoughts on Cloud-Computing)

Flickr, a photography storage & sharing site which was one of the original Web 2.0 services (the missing vowel gives it away!), has lived in a state of benign neglect for the past few years after being acquired by Yahoo!  in 2005. Under the leadership of new CEO (and former Google #3) Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! […]

Music Monday – “There are things that make me dad/You seem to be all of them.”

Pace turned six this weekend and I know it’s cliche but man, time has really flown. I haven’t had a chance to update this montage of photos we’ve taken with Pace and a stuffed Oscar the Grouch doll every three months of his first year and then annually since then so it only goes up […]

A Few Random Thoughts on Pace’s First “Real” Birthday Party

So now that Pace is in kindergarten and turning six, we decided to have his first “real” birthday party with a bunch of friends rather than just family members and/or a friend from daycare like in previous years. Here’s some random thoughts about what we did for Pace’s party this year and why… – in […]

Saturday Snap – Happy Sixth Birthday, Pace!

Shea and her first baby on his sixth birthday… (Well, the actual day is tomorrow but the party’s today which is causing a bit of stress for Pace – “But if my birth day’s tomorrow, how can we have the party today???”)

Friday Fun Link – Our English As She Is Spoke (A Column Only Canadians Will Understand)

A fun column by Dave Bidini as we head into the May Long Weekend aka “The Official Start of Summer in Canada” (at least in theory, if not practice.)

Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire

A Business Week profile of the Sriracha Hot Sauce company including its founder, its history and some reasons why its been so successful. My own introduction to the fabled hot sauce was fairly typical – when I started working at the Sask Publishers Group, my boss took me for Vietnamese food (is it possible I […]

A Partial and Incomplete List of Reasons the NDP Lost The BC Election #skpoli #bcpoli #ndp

I went to a noon hour presentation at the Johnson-Shoyama School of Public Policy on “The BC Election and What It Means For Saskatchewan“.   One presenter got a good laugh off the bat joking about how he had to tear up his speaking notes in light of the stunning come-from-behind victory of the Liberals […]

Sasha is One Month Old!

I’ve been taking at least a photo of Sasha every day since she was born. I’d seen various videos made from daily pics of babies, kids and others over the years but didn’t put a lot of thought into doing this with Sasha until, oh, pretty much the day she was born. While hanging out […]

Music Monday – “For here am I sitting in a tin can/Far above the world/Planet Earth is blue/And there’s nothing I can do”

Canadian astronaut, Col. Chris Hadfield’s final message from the International Space Station before returning to earth after five months in space is quite fitting (and has already gone viral like so much of the other content he’s provided.  One great example – a geography teacher at a Nova Scotia Community College created a cool Google Maps mash-up which […]

Live Map of Changes to Wikipedia

Fascinating (although not quite as comprehensive as you’d expect – only people who aren’t logged in to Wikipedia accounts have their IP addresses logged when they make edits.  So this visualization only shows a small subset of active Wikipedia editors – mostly made up of those not committed enough to have an account or who are […]