Last year in my old blog I ran a series of posts about Taming the Inbox. Where I talk about trying to get a handle on my 6+ email accounts and looking for a solution for managing my mail. I wanted to find something that was as flexible as I needed, worked well from multiple …
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Disconnected…
For the last 3 week I have felt a little lost, my phone is broken and So I don’t have access to all things I had started to take for granted. I miss having access to my E-Mail, Calendar, Twitter, and Evernotes. I have been using Melissa’s phone, but its not the same. I don’t …
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The Challenges of 2010
The start of a new year, a time to look forward to the future. To set goals and make resolutions. This year I haven’t set any resolutions, I have three geeky challenges I’ve set myself, there are some other personal challenges that I might share on the blog in the weeks to come but for …
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Christmas Day Experiment
Today is Christmas Day, a day for family, food and presents. We started our day with Jacob coming into our room excited to go downstairs and see what Santa had left. We had a great time as a family sitting around the tree and opening presents. Jacob did very well, pulling the presents out from …
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1000 Days of Twitter
A few months back someone twittered that they had been on Twitter for some amount of weeks. It was a high number I can’t remember who it was or how long they were on twitter, I just remember wondering how long I’d been on twitter. I looked it up on www.whendidyoujointwitter.com At the time I …
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Digital House Cleaning
Sorry for the late post tonight, I’ve been trying to get my posts up in the morning but today that wasn’t possible. Today has been a day of electronic house cleaning. It started when I decided it was time to change my website host. Then expanded when I did a wipe of my cell phone, …
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A new way to look at the clouds
Today while going through one of my inboxes I had an email from Live Labs with a preview code for Pivot, an experimental way to look at large amounts of data. As I sat looking at the email on my phone I found myself wondering what was Pivot. I recalled requesting an invitation, but that …
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Cloud Gazing: First look at Foursquare
Last week I joined the social game site foursquare, I’ve been looking at it over the past few months wondering when it would come to Canada. So when I heard on Webnation that it had come to our fair city I joined up right away. Foursquare is a social gaming site where you virtually check-in …
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Finding a Solution for My Online Addiction…
In my last post I asked two questions (My Online addiction), today ‘I’m going to answer them. Why do I sign up to so many online sites? This is an easy question to answer, I sign up to some many sites because I’m looking for the next big thing. The next tool or service that …
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Shell Scripting
Tomorrow my Dad’s second book “Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell” is released. If you are interested in Shell Scripts it’s probably a worthwhile buy. Even though I don’t write shell scripts I found his first book “Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach” fascinating to read. I’m looking forward to reading the new book. …
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