Category Archives: Internet

Friday Fun Link – Funny Facebook Threads (Sept 11, 2009)

[2009-09-17 – Edit: “b” and “c” aren't that close on the keyboard so I wonder what sort of a Freudian slip it was to type “Facecook” in the subject line of this post originally?] A minor trend I've noticed lately is people posting screen caps of funny Facebook threads they come across…“Michael Jackson is dead?““OMG!  […]

The Deal With Disability

*I'm backdating a few posts to this past weekend to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping and otherwise spending quality time with my family.*The Deal With Disability's “About Me” page sums up the purpose of this eye-opening site very nicely…“Hey, I’m Eva. I’m […]

Design Your Own Cover For The New Douglas Coupland Book (Which Is A "Generation X" Sequel)

*I'm backdating a few posts to this past weekend to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping and otherwise spending quality time with my family.*CustomizedCoupland is an opportunity for you to design your own cover for his new book – for a price of […]

Friday Late Link – What The Internet Knows About You (September 4, 2009)

*I'm backdating a few posts to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping and otherwise spending quality time with my family.*WhatTheInternetKnowsAboutYou.com uses an unintentional security hole that exists in most browsers – the ability to see which links you've clicked in the past to […]

Hello Rotary Club of Regina Eastview

I hope you enjoy my presentation at your luncheon today and it doesn't make you do this…

Here's One For All The Blackberry Lovers Out There

Fortune magazine has named Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry line of products, as the fastest growing company in the world.  (Apple came in at 39.)On a more local note, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, came in at #10 due to surging demand for fertilizer in places like China, India and Brazil.

My Day As Facebook Updates

I rarely do Facebook updates so here's a glimpse of how today would be if I did them all the time.  7:11am – Jason is awake before everyone else to attempt to catch up on his usual e-mail backlog.  Getting from 130 down to 50 feels like success.  8:27am – some people say leftover pizza […]

Radiohead – Inexpensive Charity Single and a Free Song Too

Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices.  Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion, an anti-war song written using the words of the UK's last surviving WWI soldier, Harry Patch who died earlier this summer.– and a brand new song, “These […]

Kidlandia: Who's More Excited – Daddy or Pace?

Usually when I read TechCrunch, I find stuff that gets me excited about some new web site or technology.  And don't get me wrong – the make-your-own-Medieval map site, Kidlandia – is something I find pretty cool too.  Still, it's rare to find something that gets me excited about technology on behalf of Pace.  But […]

"I was in front of him, what happened with my phone?"

Instead of doing literal translations (word X in English is word Y in some other language), I read somewhere that Google Translations uses its massive processing power to analyze words, phrases and other elements of language in different versions of the same works that are provided on web sites, in scanned poems, essays and books […]