My 30 Day Challenge
April is a nice square looking month this year — starts on a Sunday and all that. April Fools Day makes as great a New Year as anything for resolutions. So ...
Recent Posts
Remembering Wilson Verge
I met Wilson in the summer of 1998. I was doing some very hands-on IT consulting for the NSCC Metro campuses. In conversation, I made the mistake of letting ...
Cloud Storage Choices (DropBox, SugarSync, Box.net, iCloud, SkyDrive, SharePoint)
I have 5gb on Dropbox, but it requires that I install a client to access it which is fine for iPad, BlackBerry (and PlayBook) and a computer with which one h...
This Video Is Even More Funny With Rim's Major Outage
My Blackberry is pretty much toast now. So is RIM. http://www.rim.com/newsroom/service-update.shtml Given the iOS5 and iPhone 4s general availability tom...
So, for some reason, I thought it sensible to cull my Windows Live Messenger contacts.
I got mired up in the Windows Live platform import/export goofiness and generally ended up annoying all my peeps. Sorry. Anyhoo, I saw some feedback along t...
Brain Dump on my Post-Election Thoughts (so I can move on with life)
I’ve voted NDP in every election for which I’ve been eligible save one. The first time I exercised by democratic right, I voted for Kim Campbell’s Tories — t...
Momentum
On the way home yesterday, crawling through late afternoon traffic along the Bedford highway, I was listening to CBC Mainstreet NS. An item washed over me th...
My iPad Experience
Everyone and their cat, it seems, has done an iPad review. I got my hands on a few of these through work as my teams needed to get a handle on what was alrea...
Now Accepting Suggestions On How I Should Decorate My Boot
So, I slipped on the metal threshold of my front door while taking the garbage out. Wearing Crocs. In the rain. Several parts of my body impacted upon the m...
What CO2? No CO2 here!
One week later and I still can’t let this one go. I was listening to CBC radio on the way home last Friday. They were talking about the recent NDP commitmen...
I have a theory…
The Vatican is so besieged by pedophilia and corruption scandals that the Holy See has commissioned secret work, in an unprecedented alliance with the Illumi...
Your intestines will be my jump rope…. Your skull–my urinal
Taken from: Why I’d rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service — The Oatmeal I had an experience this week in craptacular customer servic...