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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! […]

¶ Posted 21 May 2013 § Blog § Internet § MemoryLane § Photo § Technology ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: economics

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 […]

¶ Posted 13 May 2013 § Canada § Internet § Meme § MusicMonday § Photo § Technology § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, travel

Dying Man’s Wish – Leave $500 Tip on a Pizza Order

I’m not sure if this fits as a May Day story or not but I like the sentiment – people who do tough jobs for very little reward sometimes deserve to be surprised with some over-the-top generosity (although there’s also a flip side argument that if we paid decent wages to our servers, tipping wouldn’t […]

¶ Posted 01 May 2013 § Jobs § Meme § MemoryLane § Randomness § Sad § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, unitedstates

Music Monday – “And We’re Glad, Glad, Glad/You’re a Glide”

I’ve made a few passing references to my semester exchange to England in 1995 on this blog but I don’t know if I’ve ever told the story in a bit greater detail. I will do that someday for sure as that four month period remains (and *please* don’t tell Shea I said this!) ;-), the […]

¶ Posted 15 April 2013 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Travel § UK § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: book, holiday, music

The Universe Is Very Big

The distance from Earth to Mars (if the Earth was 100 pixels wide) The Scale of the Universe …and the top rated photos in Reddit’s /r/spaceporn

¶ Posted 04 April 2013 § Randomness § Travel § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: science

The 21st Century Calculator Watch?

When I was a kid, the cartoon “Battle of the Planets” was a huge deal for me and my friends. One of the many cool things about the show was that “the G-Force members stay in contact through a wrist-band communicator device.” In grade one, I still remember how I convinced a bunch of my […]

¶ Posted 03 April 2013 § Humour § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: television

2013-03-27 – Seven Things In My Brain This Week

Finding the A&W at the Cornwall Centre food court closed for renovations tonight, a co-worker suggested that we should “nationalize the fast food industry.” I helped a visually impaired patron mix up a protein shake the other day. Now *that’s* customer service! 😉 If politics is like sport, losing the leadership race by 44 votes […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2013 § Canada § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Sports § United States § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health, language, reddit, science, weather

Music Monday – “L’Odyssée de la Vie”

No words for me to quote in the title of this week’s post like I usually do. But the epic choral and instrumental music is a perfect soundtrack for this awesome video as Shea and I are down to around a month or so until our baby comes!