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Alberta’s Got Gas and Sask’s Got a Pharm!

I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail.  This book came to my attention after winning a 2009 National Business Book Prize and, as you might expect given its title and author, it’s a fairly pro-business look at […]

Posted 28 July 2011 § Library § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – All Space Shuttle Missions In Eight Minutes

Posted 22 July 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Newfoundland Trip – Whale Watching at Bonavista

Posted 05 July 2011 § MemoryLane § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Google Charges Its R&D Team With Making Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Conventional…

…”within a few years.” So frackin‘ cool if it’s true!

Posted 12 June 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Barley Buddy

Now this is social media I can get behind – tell the site which beers you prefer and it will make recommendations for your next brew!

Posted 10 June 2011 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Saturday Snap – Katepwa Beach Flooding

With the amount of moisture we’ve had for the past couple winters and last summer as well, much of Saskatchewan is experiencing the worst flooding we’ve had in forty years.  Katepwa Lake, north of Indian Head, where our family has a cottage is no exception.  Last weekend, Shea, Pace and I were out to do […]

Posted 07 May 2011 § Family § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Resurrecting An Idea…

Last Christmas, I did a week-long series of posts exploring the topic of religion in general and my atheism specifically. One of my posts was about how, even though believers will give dozens of reasons why they are religious, from my perspective there were three main reasons I thought people actually were religious – whether […]

Posted 24 April 2011 § Randomness ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – The World’s Most Boring Privacy Violation

It’s just come out that the iPhone creates a secret file on user’s computers without their knowledge or permission which has a record of their geo-location information.  Unsurprisingly, this has privacy advocates up in arms. Jessamyn West wrote about this and linked to a small app you can download which can help you visualize what […]

Posted 23 April 2011 § SaturdaySnap § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Sex on a First Date to Long Term Prospects, A Dating Site Knows All?

Dating site, OKCupid, has a really interesting blog where they draw on their massive data pool from site members profiles and interactions to come up with some revealing information.

Posted 11 February 2011 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Beauty of the PVR

We have a PVR on our TV and one of the biggest benefits for me is the ability to all but avoid commercials – either by recording programs and watching them at a later time or even while watching a show in near real-time. This is especially useful for “event” television like oh, I don’t […]

Posted 06 February 2011 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,